Matthew Choi, Author at The Texas Tribune

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Matthew Choi

Matthew Choi is a Washington correspondent for The Texas Tribune. He previously covered energy and climate policy at Politico, where he wrote the Morning Energy newsletter and covered campaign events as a breaking news reporter during the 2020 presidential election and the Mueller investigation. Before joining Politico, Matthew was a two-time reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune based in Austin, reporting on education, health care, immigration, guns, agriculture and land management. He graduated from Northwestern University where he studied journalism and political science and was managing editor of The Daily Northwestern. Matthew is a native of Northern Virginia and speaks both French and English. In his free time, Matthew enjoys cooking French country food while listening to Simon and Garfunkel.

U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Vicente Gonzalez,D-McAllen.

Energy

Two Texas Democrats will vote for GOP bill to reverse their own party’s signature climate improvement initiatives

By Matthew ChoiMarch 29, 2023

Gonzalez and Cuellar both represent oil and gas workers in South Texas and expressed misgivings about the Inflation Reduction Act, their party’s climate package last year.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, at his 2022 election night watch party in Brownsville.

Congress

National Republicans say they will spend big to oust Rep. Vicente Gonzalez from his South Texas seat in 2024

By Matthew ChoiMarch 13, 2023

Congressional Republicans’ campaign arm will make another effort to unseat the South Texas Democrat who ran in one of the state’s most competitive races last year.

Migrants walk onto a bus after crossing the border in Roma on Aug. 16, 2021.

Politics

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy offers warm reception to Biden border proposal as Democrats recoil

By Matthew ChoiMarch 9, 2023

The Austin Republican’s tacit approval only adds fuel to the fire for Texas Democrats recoiling at the report that the Biden administration could detain asylum-seekers.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Oct. 5.

Politics

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro had surgery to remove cancerous tumors

By Matthew ChoiFeb. 27, 2023

The 48-year-old Texas Democrat had tumors removed from his gastrointestinal tract at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

From left: U.S. Reps. Chip Roy, R-Austin, and Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio.

Politics

Texas border Republican accuses GOP of using immigration crisis for politics

By Matthew ChoiFeb. 17, 2023

U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his fellow Republicans benefit politically from a sustained border crisis. The attack indirectly alluded to U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s contentious border security bill.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a press conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1, 2021.

Politics

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Joe Biden over signing federal spending package

By Matthew ChoiFeb. 15, 2023

The attorney general argued the House unconstitutionally passed its federal spending bill because not enough members were physically present to vote. Both Republicans and Democrats voted by proxy throughout the pandemic.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, is the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Congress

For U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, national security can’t be a partisan fight

By Matthew ChoiFeb. 10, 2023

The Austin Republican and new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hopes to reach across the aisle to project a unified front as the country faces new threats, despite a staunchly conservative record.

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California watch.

Health care

Texas Republicans heckle Biden over border remarks during State of the Union

By Matthew ChoiFeb. 7, 2023Feb. 8, 2023

Texas Republicans have long pressed President Joe Biden to do more to address border security and jeered at his remarks during his annual speech to Congress.