primary challenger against Cuellar in the Democratic primary scheduled for March 4, 2020. On July 13, 2019, the Justice Democrats organization announced its support for Jessica Cisneros, a 26-year-old immigration and human rights attorney from Laredo who had announced a primary campaign against Cuellar. Cuellar defeated Cisneros 51.8% to 48.2% and was reelected in November. 2022 Cuellar finished first with a plurality in the Democratic primary, tallying 23,552 votes, 48.4%, over Cisneros, who received 22,745, 46.9%, to qualify for the May runoff. Tannya Benavides was eliminated, getting 2,289 votes, or 4.7%. During the runoff, Cuellar faced renewed scrutiny over an incident in 2018 where he fired a pregnant staffer who had requested parental leave and subsequently suffered a miscarriage, and according to court documents, subsequently urged other staffers to help him discredit her. On June 7, Cisneros, 281 votes behind in the runoff, requested a recount to be conducted by the Texas Democratic Party. Cuellar gained votes during the recount, yielding a 289-vote margin. The Associated Press called the race on June 21, 2022. On November 8, Cuellar easily won reelection after defeating Republican Cassy Garica. Committee assignments Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security (Ranking Member) Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Caucus memberships Afterschool Caucuses Congressional Hispanic Caucus Blue Dog Coalition United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus (Co-Chair) U.S.-Japan Caucus New Democrat Coalition Political positions Cuellar has described himself as a "moderate-centrist" or conservative Democrat. During the 117th Congress, he voted with the Democratic caucus 96.8% of the time. He voted with the Democratic majority 87.9% of the time during President Trump's tenure, while voting with Trump's stance 40.6% of the time. Cuellar was ranked the fifth-most bipartisan member of the House of Representatives in the first session of the 115th United States Congress by the Lugar Center and McCourt School of Public Policy. He is one of two Blue Dog Democrats in Texas's congressional delegation. As of September 2022, Cuellar had voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 94.3% of the time. Immigration In 2011, Cuellar was the author and one of two main co-sponsors of legislation seeking to honor slain ICE agent Jaime Zapata. Billed as a border security bill, it would increase cooperation among state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies during investigations of human and drug