Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

This historic bipartisan law is the most significant gun safety reform signed into law in decades. It strengthens background checks for buyers under 21, closes the “boyfriend loophole” to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, and targets illegal gun trafficking. It also invests billions in mental health care, school safety, and red flag laws to prevent gun violence before it happens.

Telehealth Expansion for Medicare

Rep. Thompson led the push to keep critical telehealth services available for Medicare patients beyond the pandemic. His bill moved CMS to extend these services through 2025, ensuring seniors can continue accessing care from home. Thompson’s CONNECT Act builds on that success — a bipartisan, bicameral bill with broad support to make many of these telehealth options permanent.

Emergency Relief Program (ERP) Disaster Assistance Funding
Rep. Thompson authored the law that created the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) — formerly known as WHIP+ — securing $10 billion to help farmers recover from wildfires, droughts, and other natural disasters. The program explicitly covers smoke damage and raises payment limits for specialty and high-value crops, delivering critical relief to California growers whose losses were beyond their control. Thompson continues to lead efforts to reauthorize and expand this vital program to protect agricultural producers year after year.

GREEN Act

Rep. Thompson’s GREEN Act, which was signed into law in the Inflation Reduction Act, uses the tax code to fight climate change by expanding and creating incentives for clean energy, energy efficiency, and zero-emission vehicles. The bill helps homeowners and businesses invest in renewable technologies, supports good-paying green energy jobs, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and addresses energy issues regarding national security — paving the way for a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

Rep. Thompson’s legislation delivered $98 million in low-income housing tax credits to California, helping rebuild affordable housing in communities hit hardest by disasters. He also worked with state officials to ensure credits were allocated to families who needed them most, helping to rebuild 1,564 homes, with more currently being built.

American Rescue Plan

This $1.9 trillion law helped America recover from the COVID-19 pandemic — getting shots in arms, money in pockets, and people back to work. It provided direct relief to families through expanded Child Tax Credits that cut child poverty in half, funded schools and childcare centers to safely reopen, and delivered critical aid to keep teachers, healthcare workers, and first responders on the job.

FEED Act

Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan FEED Act, implemented through executive order by President Biden, ensures no one goes hungry during emergencies by allowing the federal government to cover 100% of the cost for states and local governments to partner with restaurants and nonprofits to provide meals to vulnerable communities.

119^th Congress Accomplishments

My Legislation

The American Affordability Act: Rep. Thompson’s American Affordability Act cuts everyday costs and expands economic opportunity through targeted tax relief and smart, forward-looking investments. This comprehensive package delivers meaningful relief for families facing rising expenses, including education, housing, childcare, utilities, healthcare, and more.

Agricultural Emergency Relief Act: Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan Agricultural Emergency Relief Act ensures farmers and ranchers can recover from natural disasters by requiring the USDA to provide direct payments to producers who suffer crop losses from events like droughts, wildfires, floods, and freezes. This bill helps protect the nation’s food supply, supports rural economies, and gives producers the stability they need to keep growing after disaster strikes.

CONNECT for Health Act: Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan CONNECT for Health Act of 2025 expands access to telehealth under Medicare by permanently removing outdated geographic and originating site restrictions, allowing more providers—including those at community health centers, rural clinics, and Native American health facilities—to deliver virtual care, and strengthening program integrity, oversight, and quality standards to make telehealth a reliable and equitable part of America’s healthcare system.

American Energy Independence and Affordability Act: Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan American Energy Independence and Affordability Act restores the clean energy tax credits he authored that brought hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and made America a global leader in renewable energy. The bill reinstates key incentives for clean electricity, energy-efficient homes and buildings, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing of clean energy components—lowering energy costs for families, creating good-paying jobs, and strengthening U.S. energy independence. By reversing Republican cuts to these successful programs, the legislation helps ensure America remains competitive in the global clean energy economy while tackling the climate crisis head-on.

Mental Health Research Accelerator Act: Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan Mental Health Research Accelerator Act of 2025 provides a 25% tax credit for investments in translational research on neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric conditions—helping accelerate the development of new treatments, encourage public-private partnerships, and strengthen America’s mental health innovation pipeline.

Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act: Rep. Thompson’s bipartisan Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2025 helps families strengthen their homes against natural disasters by creating a federal grant program for household mitigation projects, offering tax credits for disaster-proofing expenses, and ensuring that federal and state disaster assistance isn’t taxed—making it easier and more affordable for homeowners to protect their property and communities before disasters strike.

Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act: Rep. Thompson’s Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act of 2025 establishes federal grant programs to help local governments and Tribes prepare for wildfire smoke and extreme heat by funding air quality monitoring, public health outreach, clean air shelters, protective equipment, and community resilience planning—strengthening local capacity to protect people from worsening climate-driven disasters.

Bipartisan Background Checks Act: Rep. Thompson’s Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2025 closes dangerous loopholes in America’s gun laws by requiring a background check for every firearm sale or transfer—ensuring that individuals prohibited from owning guns cannot bypass the system, while protecting lawful transfers between family members, hunters, and sportsmen.

Bicycle Commuter Act: Rep. Thompson’s Bicycle Commuter Act of 2025 reinstates and expands the bicycle commuter benefit to allow workers to receive up to 30% of the monthly transportation fringe benefit for biking, e-biking, or using scooters—including bikeshare programs—to get to work, covering costs like purchase, repair, storage, and safety gear, and helping more Americans choose healthier and more affordable commutes.

Fighting Back Against the Trump Administration

LEGISLATIVE ACTION

Voted NO on the Republican Budget — rejecting deep cuts to Medicaid, nutrition programs, and essential services that millions of Americans rely on.
Voted NO on the FY25 Full-Year Continuing Resolution, which enabled Trump-Musk cuts that gut vital programs and weaken our economy.
Led Congressional Oversight Efforts: Introduced two resolutions of inquiry with Ways and Means Democrats demanding accountability:
- From the Department of Treasury and DOGE, for unlawfully accessing taxpayer payment data and compromising the federal payment system.
- From the Social Security Administration, for plans to lay off workers and shutter field offices that millions of seniors depend on.
Cosponsored the Taxpayer Data Protection Act, holding bad actors accountable by imposing criminal penalties for any official who accesses the federal payment system with a personal financial conflict.
Stood Up for Veterans: Joined Democrats in exposing how the Trump Administration’s mass firings are endangering veterans’ health care and benefits.
Defended Constitutional Integrity: Joined a resolution reaffirming that no U.S. official can accept personal gifts from foreign powers without congressional consent — before President Trump accepts a $400 million plane from Qatar.
Fought to Restore Reproductive Health Care: Cosponsored the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act, a bicameral bill to repeal the federal ban on Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.
- This legislation reverses Section 71113 of Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which has already put nearly 200 clinics at risk of closure and threatens health care access for more than 2 million patients nationwide.
Fought to hold ICE Accountable: Co-authored the impeachment of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem following the death of Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Rep. Thompson also introduced legislation to prevent ICE agents from wearing “Police” labels on their uniforms and from wearing face masks to hide their identities. Rep. Thompson also introduced legislation to require ICE agents wear body cameras.
- Voted NO on funding ICE.

Demanding Answers and Accountability:

Exposing Misuse of Power: Pressed Treasury and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for answers on the unlawful access of taxpayer data and interference in the federal payment system.

Protecting Seniors: Demanded the Social Security Administration explain how it plans to serve beneficiaries amid office closure plans and urged the Administration and DOGE to end their attacks on Social Security.

Standing Up for Veterans: Demanded answers on how the firing of 80,000 VA employees will impact veterans’ health care and benefits.

Defending Families from Hunger: Raised alarms over the USDA’s freeze on The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)—which canceled 330 truckloads of food bound for 49 California food banks, including 11 in our district.

Fighting for Early Education: Urged President Trump and Secretary Kennedy to reverse their plan to eliminate Head Start, warning of devastating impacts for nearly half a million children and families nationwide.

Protecting Mental Health Services:

Opposed Trump’s proposal to dismantle SAMHSA and eliminate the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by folding it into a new “Administration for a Healthy America.”
Condemned efforts to end specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth using 9-8-8, warning of lethal consequences for vulnerable young people in crisis.
Fought and won a reinstatement of mental health funding that was initially rescinded by HHS Secretary Kennedy.

Defending the Integrity of Federal Data: Denounced President Trump’s politically motivated firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a reckless move that undermines public trust and threatens the accuracy of economic data.

Standing with Workers: Urged Secretary Chavez-DeRemer to block a proposed rule that would strip away wage and overtime protections for nearly 4 million home care workers nationwide.

Protecting Critical Agencies and Programs

Signed onto letters defending:

The Department of Education and National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
The United States Postal Service (USPS) from privatization
Gun violence prevention initiatives
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and workers’ rights
Wildfire relief funding and aid for fired federal employees
Opposition to tariffs on our allies and federal office closures

WINS:

Lawsuits have forced the Administration to:

Stop the funding freeze for federal programs
Force the reinstatement of tens of thousands of federal workers
Prevent DOGE access to certain sensitive data
Stop the President’s attempt to end constitutional Birthright Citizenship
Prevent the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)