While Vela ultimately did not end up in the administration, his wife, Rose Vela, works as director of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. Vela is a close ally of President Joe Biden and was in talks for a Biden administration position. Vicente Gonzalez is now running for reelection to Congress in the 34th district, a safer Democratic district than his current one.Ībbott, a Republican, did not immediately announce a special election to replace Vela. After Texas redistricting took place, current TX-15 Democratic Rep. Vela announced he wouldn't seek reelection for his seat in Texas' 34th Congressional District last March. President Donald Trump performed better than expected with Hispanic voters in the Rio Grande Valley, making districts there, including Vela's and a handful of others, key pickup targets for Republicans. Vela represented a district near the US-Mexico border and won his district by 55% in November 2020. It has been a profound honor to represent the people of the 34th Congressional District of Texas for the last nine years, and my distinct pleasure to serve under your leadership,' Vela told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in his resignation letter. House of Representatives, effective today at 11:59 PM EST. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would impose a new 5-percent tariff on all imported Mexican goods beginning June 10 so as to pressure the country to halt undocumented migrants crossing the border.'I write to inform you that I have notified Texas Governor Greg Abbott of my resignation from the U.S.

Some investors worry that agriculture will be used as a pawn as Mexico is likely to impose countermeasures on imports of U.S. 'Beyond this being terrible policy, it's ridiculous to think that Mexico could stop migration,' she twitted.Ĭorn and soybeans were lower in overnight trading amid rising trade tensions between the United States and Mexico. In the speech, Vela referred to an open letter he recently sent to Trump which told the billionaire businessman where to shove his border wall proposals. 'Dear America, get ready to pay more for pretty much everything until Mexico solves a problem that no country in the world has ever been able to fix,' she tweeted Thursday night. Congressman Filemon Vela of Brownsville criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a speech at the State Democratic Party convention. Stephanie Leutert, director of Mexico Security Initiative at University of Texas at Austin, tweeted that American consumers should be ready for rising prices of commodities. from Mexico would strike a hammer blow to Texas, threatening the state's economy and causing financial pain for the state's businesses and consumers. dollars of goods from Mexico last year, representing 35 percent of the state' total import.Įxperts believed Trump's surprise plan to levy tariffs on all goods imported to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Texas imported around 107 billion U.S. Sharing about 2,000-km border with Texas, Mexico is the state's largest trading partner. states, Texas has the longest stretch of the border with Mexico. Congressman from southern Texas, called Trump's tariff plan 'erratic and nonsensical', saying in a statement that the decision is to 'turn one problem into another.'Īmong U.S. President Donald Trump's new Mexico tariff decision Thursday night, saying it will harm the Texas economy.įilemon Vela, U.S. HOUSTON, May 31 (Xinhua) - Politicians and scholars of U.S.

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