Sam Liccardo
@sliccardo
Official: @repliccardo. Rep for CA 16. Former Mayor of San José. Despite being 60% water, I’m a big eater. Cycling geek. @kohl_garcia's Husband. He/Him.
The US has provided military support for a war that has left 2 million Palestinians without homes & livelihoods. We cannot walk away from this humanitarian disaster, as Trump suggests, or we will be morally complicit in the death of these starving children. Yes, Hamas must…
If you suspected that accusations by @realDonaldTrump against a “treasonous” @BarackObama were just a red herring to distract the public from Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein-related troubles, you weren’t wrong…. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/… via @NYTimes
I don’t pretend to know the truth, but if the answer was “no,” Epstein wouldn’t need to invoke the 5th….
Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? Epstein: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights.
The One Big Bloated Borrowing Bill set our country on a path of fiscal recklessness, and unless we want our children to foot the bill, Congress must get to work reducing our deficit. I penned this op-ed before the passage of the budget bill, but my conviction has only grown: we…
ICYMI: I just introduced the bipartisan SUPPLY Act to help homeowners become part of the solution to our housing crisis. I first proposed this idea in my book—and now, we’re turning it into action. Finding common ground with common-sense policy is how we will get it done.
America can’t win the 21st century without innovation. Glad to see @ThirdWay highlighting the urgent need for a reset on tech and innovation policy. I’ll be working with my colleagues in Congress to spur this effort. thirdway.org/memo/ctrl-alt-…
Nice try @AGPamBondi. What about videos, photographs and other recordings? What about FBI 302’s (witness interviews)? What about texts and emails? That’s where the evidence about Trump and others will be. Grand jury testimony will only relate to Epstein and Maxwell.
President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.
This is literally all the kids coming together and trying to figure out what to do about the drunk dad. nytimes.com/2025/07/18/wor…
The new “Red Tape”: every kilowatt will undergo a rigorous political ideology test. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/cli…
I’m going out on a limb to guess @FoxNews won’t call Trump on this blatant, easily verifiable lie about who appointed Powell….
We are living in the dumbest timeline humanly possible.
it's remarkably bleak that Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, including an allegation that was adjudicated & in which he was found liable for sexual assault, & yet the American public needs still MORE evidence of his depraved character and unfitness.
In six months, we’ll be calling it the “Trump Slump”…. apple.news/A2Y_GzgvCSl2-V…
A young US citizen, Sayafollah Musallet, was brutally beaten & killed in the West Bank, reportedly by Israeli settlers. He bled for 3 hrs before the group would allow medics to reach him. I demand that US & Israeli govts bring these assailants to justice. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
What’s most heart-wrenching about these stories of hard-working parents who have spent decades building families and communities here: there are millions of children—many of them US citizens—traumatized by their family’s deportation. apple.news/AZ7ell_WvS7yIj…
America needs an innovation agenda to lead—and win—the 21st century. My new op-ed in the @mercnews outlines our path forward.
Liccardo: Democrats need an innovation agenda to win back Silicon Valley tech leaders trib.al/tfh2zDm
I agree with Garofoli. I’ve opposed every proposed expansion of gambling in San Jose, but a blanket ban on fantasy sports feels like “nanny state” politics…what do you think? sfchronicle.com/politics/joega…
Liccardo: I went to law school at the time when conservative jurists and scholars believed that you first look at the plain language of the constitution before you do anything else. The plain language is quite plain, and yet you have this now desire to reinvent the language of…