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Defense/National Security

December 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hoy, los legisladores Mario Díaz-Balart (FL-26) y Carlos A. Giménez (FL-28) emitieron la siguiente declaración conjunta con respecto a la reciente decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) de suspender los trámites migratorios en Estados Unidos.

December 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (FL-26) and Carlos A. Giménez (FL-28) released the following joint statement regarding the recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to halt immigration applications:

December 2, 2025

Washington, D.C. – House Appropriations Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL)—alongside Appropriators Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) and Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV)—led a joint briefing with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the escalating violence and targeted persecution of Christians in Nigeria with religious freedom and foreign relations experts.

December 1, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, December 2nd, House Appropriations Committee Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Mario Díaz-Balart, joined by fellow Appropriators and members of the Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committees, will convene a joint briefing with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and other experts to spotlight the escalating violence and targeted persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

November 25, 2025

MIAMI, FL –  El legislador Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL-26), presidente de la Subcomisión que determina los fondos para la política exterior de EE.UU. de la Comision de Asignaciones de la Cámara de Representantes y una de las voces principales de la política exterior de nuestra nación, anunció que él, junto con los legisladores Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25), María Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27), Carlos A.

November 25, 2025

MIAMI, FL – Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL-26), Chair of the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee on the House Appropriations Committee and a leading voice of our nation’s foreign policy, announced that he, alongside Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25), María Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27), Carlos A. Giménez (R-FL-28), Lois Frankel (D-FL-22), and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) filed a bipartisan amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Havana Docks Corp. v.

November 21, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-26) issued the following statement on Rep.

November 12, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), Vice Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement after voting to reopen the government:

“No shutdown has ever achieved anything, and this one was a colossal failure. All Democrats did was hold hostage the livelihood of Americans, using them as leverage to protect their political survival. 

November 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (FL-26), Carlos A. Giménez (FL-28), and Cory Mills (FL-07), along with a bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers, sent a letter to senior Army leadership to urge the U.S. Army to maintain central Florida as an acquisition headquarters as it considers a restructuring of its program offices, including Program Executive Office Simulation Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).

November 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While Democrats continue their theatrics, forcing government employees to work without pay for a full month and risking programs like SNAP and WIC, Republicans have been working hard to help the people impacted by this prolonged, unnecessary shutdown.