{"id":10902,"date":"2025-07-02T18:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scoop-gimenez-launches-bid-for-house-homeland-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:16:46","slug":"scoop-gimenez-launches-bid-for-house-homeland-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scoop-gimenez-launches-bid-for-house-homeland-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOOP: Gimenez launches bid for House Homeland chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) has formally launched a bid to become chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000197-cba8-de82-a7d7-dffc325c0000\" target=\"_blank\">according to a letter of intent obtained by POLITICO<\/a>. Gimenez\u2019s office confirmed that he has notified the Steering Committee of his intention to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why he\u2019s served for 25 years and hasn\u2019t lost an election is because he\u2019s a straight shooter, people trust him,\u201d a Gimenez spokesperson told Blue Light News of Gimenez&#8217;s career in public office.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Republican enters the race for the gavel as the current chair, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), prepares to step down. Green announced last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/09\/congress\/mark-green-to-retire-after-megabill-vote-00395343\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019ll resign<\/a> from Congress for a private-sector job once the chamber passes the megabill.<\/p>\n<p>Gimenez<b>\u00a0<\/b>argued in the letter, sent on Tuesday, that his background holding a series of offices in Florida positions him as the top choice to take over the powerful perch. \u201cThese roles were not theoretical, they were boots-on-the-ground, real world experiences,\u201d he wrote. Gimenez, a Cuban immigrant, has toured ICE detention centers across South Florida in recent weeks and touted the investment in enforcement for DHS that the megabill would provide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) has formally launched a bid to become chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, according to a letter of intent obtained by Blue Light News. Gimenez\u2019s office confirmed that he has notified the Steering Committee of his intention to run. \u201cThe reason why he\u2019s served for 25 years and hasn\u2019t lost an election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}