The family of Elias Rodriguez, the terror suspect who brutally murdered two Israeli Embassy staffers on the streets of Washington, D.C., is linked to a radical House Democrat.
30-year-old Rodriguez, a pro-Hamas “activist,” murdered Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, in cold blood on Wednesday night.
Lischinsky and Milgrim were a couple and had been planning to get engaged.
It has now emerged that Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) is linked to Rodriguez’s family.
Notably, García controversially called for a “ceasefire” on October 7, 2023.
He made the call as Hamas terrorists were still raping and slaughtering Israeli civilians.
García hosted Eric Rodriguez, the father of the suspected gunman, at President Donald Trump’s March 4 speech.
“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” a spokesperson for García claimed in a statement to the New York Post on Thursday.
Elias Rodriguez was detained by police on suspicion of murdering Lischinsky and Milgrim on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
The couple was shot at close range, police revealed.
Milgrim was shot multiple times while trying to crawl away, according to court documents.
According to police, the terrorist told officers he “did it for Palestine.”
García announced Rodriguez’s invitation the day before the speech.
The congressman claimed that “his presence at the Joint Address is a powerful statement: we will not sit back while veterans and workers are treated as political pawns.”
Rodriguez is a disabled Army veteran and an employee at Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital in Illinois, according to the statement.
“We’ve seen this playbook before—divide and weaken workers, then hand over public services to private interests,” García wrote.
“But this time, we’re ready.
“With leaders like Eric and the power of our unions, we’re fighting back stronger than ever.”
In a video for the Service Employees International Union on the same day, Rodriguez said he was in Washington, D.C., because he is “concerned about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system.”
García has been a critic of Israel since it launched its defensive war against Hamas, including opposing military aid to Israel.
Last April, he claimed that he rejects “U.S. complicity in the devastation of Palestinian life in Gaza.”
García said he opposed sending offensive weapons because “it would signal support for an expanded invasion of Rafah.”
“The US cannot continue to be complicit in the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza,” he posted on X.
In September, García opposed cutting funding to UNRWA.
He opposed the cuts despite its workers’ participation in the October 7 massacre and the testimony of hostages saying they were held in UNRWA facilities.
UNRWA has also been criticized for promoting anti-Semitism in its schools.
On Friday, a group of over 50 House Republicans introduced a resolution condemning the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky.
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