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Rep. Harder demanded FEMA make changes to its disaster relief process after hundreds of San Joaquin families struggled to get help following heavy rain and flooding last year

WASHINGTON - Rep. Josh Harder just introduced the Bring More Therapists to the Valley Act to combat the growing mental health crisis in San Joaquin County. The county has only 24 highly trained mental health professionals for every 100,000 people, making it the lowest ratio of providers to patients in California.

Delta communities are firmly against the project and have not been included in any step of the process

Sacramento is trying to get federal funds to jam the project through despite the state’s own Environmental Impact Report acknowledging harmful impacts

Fire stations in San Joaquin County have waited over a year to be paid back after responding to fires on federal lands

If approved, this new rate increase could push the average household PG&E bill over $300 – a record-high

A Statement from Representative Josh Harder (CA-9):

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate and is undeniably a humanitarian crisis. Tens of thousands of innocent lives have been lost and Gazan families are living in a nightmare. Food shortages are rampant, water is in low supply, and there are very few options to escape the unrelenting barrage of bombings. The images we’re seeing and stories we’re hearing are at times too much to comprehend. But we cannot look the other way. 

STOCKTON - Today, Rep. Josh Harder urged the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in a letter to criminalize the tranquilizer drug, Xylazine, and take additional actions to stop the flow of the “zombie drug” into Central Valley communities. Rep. Harder first raised alarms last year on the increase in xylazine-laced fentanyl overdose deaths and a potential crisis in San Joaquin County and throughout the Valley.

WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Josh Harder (CA-9) led his Delta region colleagues in demanding California Natural Resources Agency halt all Delta Tunnel activity following the release of the California Department of Water Resources’ final Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The report acknowledges what Harder and other Delta Tunnel opponents have known for years:  the project threatens endangered fish populations, will destroy farmland, and make water in the Delta region undrinkable.