California Attorney General Xavier Becerra — the son of immigrants who has sued the Trump administration 45 times over a wide range of issues — will deliver the Spanish-language response to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday.
Becerra was tapped by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., along with former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, who will give her response to Trump’s speech in English.
Becerra, 61, is well known to Pelosi, who served with Becerra from the time he was elected to Congress in 1992 until he left to become attorney general in 2017. During his 24 years in the House, Becerra rose through the ranks to become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, making him the highest-ranking Latino in Congress.
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