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Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · May 6, 2025

Rosie Rios is a left-wing partisan. She's said "Mexico is my country, just like the U.S...I can't choose between the…

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The author criticizes Rosie Rios, Biden's appointee as chair of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission (tasked with planning America's 250th anniversary celebration), arguing she is a partisan Democrat with anti-American rhetoric who has expressed divided loyalty between the U.S. and Mexico, and calls on President Trump to replace her.

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  1. #1

    Rosie Rios is a left-wing partisan. She's said "Mexico is my country, just like the U.S...I can't choose between the two." She claimed Trump "demonized" "my people." Biden made her chair of America's 250th birthday commission. I'm urging President Trump to replace her. 🧵

  2. #2

    In 2022, Biden appointed Rios as Chair of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission—the body tasked with planning the celebration of our nation’s 250th anniversary—to replace President Trump's original pick for the role. The entire process took place under dubious circumstances.

  3. #3

    Rios is a longtime Democrat partisan. She served as U.S. Treasurer under President Obama from 2009-2017. She also has a disturbing history of extreme partisan bias and anti-American rhetoric—as @nataliegwinters documented in this thread last week: x.com/nataliegwinter…

  4. #4

    2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence—the moment that our Founding Fathers pledged their “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to the fight for American independence and sovereignty. Rios has routinely undermined and challenged both of those things.

  5. #5

    In a 2016 interview with Mexican media, she said that "I was born in California, but California used to be part of Mexico...there’s no wall that can separate that." She also said that "Mexico is my country, just like the United States...I can’t choose between the two countries."

  6. #6

    In a speech in Mexico the year before, Rios declared that "I am as much Mexican as I am American." Later, she added: "I am you and you are me. We are bound...We are the same blood. California, where I was born and raised, was Mexico...we are the same land that was Mexico."

  7. #7

    Relatedly, she has repeatedly attacked President Trump, claiming that "nothing good can come from" him in 2016. In a separate event in Mexico, she said that "it was very difficult to hear" Trump "demonize" "the community of my people." x.com/nataliegwinter…

  8. #8

    The person in charge of our 250th anniversary shouldn't struggle to choose between America and another country. America is a unique, distinctive, sovereign nation and people. Our 250th anniversary should be a celebration of our unique, distinctive history and heritage.

  9. #9

    Rios' comments make it abundantly clear that she is not qualified for that task. I'm requesting that President Trump usher in new leadership for the Commission—and appoints someone we can trust to plan and execute this momentous celebration of our nation's 250th anniversary.