SWAMP MONSTERS DAVID VALADAO AND DONALD TRUMP PUTTING THEMSELVES FIRST AND FOREMOST, CENTRAL VALLEY FAMILIES, FARMERS AND WORKERS COME LAST
Valadao “Absolutely” Supports President Trump and His Reckless Agenda Hurting the Central Valley
FiveThirtyEight: Valadao Voted In Line With Trump’s Position 97.9 Percent Of The Time. [FiveThirtyEight, accessed 2/14/20]
October 2015: Said He Would “Absolutely” Support Trump If He Became The Republican Nominee. On October 30, 2015 Valadao appeared on EyeWitness News 47 with Joey Horta when Horta inquired as to his support for the Republican nomination. HORTA: Assuming that he [Jeb Bush] gets enough votes because he’s polling a lot lower than the top two—Ben Carson and Donald Trump. Will you be able to support one of those two if they make it for the nomination? Valadao: Absolutely, I’m gonna stick with the winner from my party, obviously. [CBS Fresno, 2:33, 10/30/15]
2017: Valadao Voted For The American Health Care Act – The Republican Health Care Repeal Bill. [HR 1628, Vote #256, 5/4/17]
Valadao Voted For The Republican Tax Scam Bill giving billions in tax breaks and lining the pockets of drug manufacturers. [HRes 616, Vote #637, 11/16/17] [ITEP, 11/02/2019]
Valadao Repeatedly Voted To Fund Trump’s Border Wall, Which Was Being Built Using Billions Of Dollars In Military And Disaster Funding. [HR 3354, Vote #527, 9/14/17; HR 3219, Vote #435, 7/27/17; HR 3219, Vote #434, 7/27/17; HR 2810, Vote #377, 7/14/17; Washington Post, 1/13/20; NBC News, 4/29/19]
Valadao Went So Far for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda, That Valadao Voted Eight Times To Block The DREAM Act. [HR 609, Vote #616, 11/8/17; HR, Vote #572, 11/9/17; HR 562, Vote #560, 10/11/17; HR 36, Vote #546, 10/3/17; HR 538, Vote #538, 9/27/17; HR 533, Vote #532, 9/26/17; HR 504, Vote #457, 9/7/17; H Res 500, Vote #442, 9/6/17]
Valadao Repeatedly Voted Against Raising the Minimum Wage and Never Voted For Raising the Minimum Wage for California’s Workers. [HR 487, Vote #65, 2/26/14; HR 492, Vote #79, 2/27/14; HR 530, Vote #152, 4/2/14; HR 539, Vote #157, 4/4/14]
Valadao Voted For The “Working Families Flexibility Act,” Which Undermined The 40-Hour Work Week, And Voted Against Protecting Paid Sick Leave. [HR 1406, Vote #137, 5/8/13; CQ, 5/8/13; HR 1406, Vote #136, 5/8/13; CQ, 5/8/13; The Hill, 4/8/13]
Valadao Voted To Undermine Worker Protections By Allowing Private-Sector Employees To Swap Overtime Pay For ‘Comp Time’. [HR 1180, Vote #244, 5/2/17; CQ, 5/2/17]
Valadao’s Loyalty is So Strong For Trump that Valadao Repeatedly Voted to Protect Him from the Public and Congressional Scrutiny
Valadao Repeatedly Voted to Protect Trump from Having to Release His Tax Returns. [Motion, Vote #392, 7/19/17; Motion, Vote #311, 6/21/17; Motion, Vote #292, 6/7/17; Motion, Vote #219, 4/5/17; Motion, Vote #201, 3/28/17]
Valadao Repeatedly Voted Against Addressing Conflicts Of Interest In Trump’s Administration.[HR 280, Vote #229, 4/27/17; HR 1004, Vote #125, 3/2/17; HR 998, Vote #113, 3/1/17; HR 40, Vote #32, 1/11/17]