{"id":2425370,"date":"2025-04-19T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-changes-van-hollens-office-plaque-after-el-salvador-visit-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:10:04","slug":"house-republican-changes-van-hollens-office-plaque-after-el-salvador-visit-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-changes-van-hollens-office-plaque-after-el-salvador-visit-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican changes Van Hollen\u2019s office plaque after El Salvador visit &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republican-changes-van-hollens-office-plaque-after-el-salvador-visit-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2425370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) recently changed the office plaque of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) after the senator&#8217;s visit to El Salvador, where he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national deported by the Trump governance. collins mocked Van Hollen on social media, suggesting that he now represents El Salvador instead of Maryland. From El Salvador, Van Hollen criticized the deportation of Abrego Garcia, calling it a violation of due process and suggesting that it reflects a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">broader constitutional crisis<\/a>. This visit has prompted criticism from Republicans and sparked further political controversy surrounding Abrego Garcia&#8217;s case,which has garnered attention on both sides of the aisle,as another Democrat,Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-gov-desantis-announces-plan-to-work-with-publix-pharmacy-to-distribute-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Fla. Gov. DeSantis announces plan to work with Publix Pharmacy to distribute COVID-19 vaccine\">announced plans<\/a> to visit El Salvador in support of Abrego Garcia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House Republican changes Van Hollen&rsquo;s office plaque after El Salvador visit<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2099925\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) claimed that he changed Sen. Chris Van Hollen&rsquo;s (D-MD) office plaque after the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">senator<\/a> traveled to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">El Salvador<\/a> and met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national deported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>In an X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMikeCollins\/status\/1913379300104880406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1913379300104880406%7Ctwgr%5Ef98ca252cb4661e22da5fb468700eedd16547fe9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Frepublican-changes-van-hollens-office-plaque-after-dems-visit-el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"post\">post<\/a>, Collins said, &ldquo;Hey [Chris Van Hollen], I went ahead and changed your office plaque for you,&rdquo; and included a photo of the updated plaque, which shows that Van Hollen now represents El Salvador instead of his state of Maryland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3385368\/house-democrat-maxine-dexter-plans-el-salvador-trip-abrego-garcia\/\">House Democrat Maxine Dexter plans El Salvador trip amid Abrego Garcia saga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3385129\/women-in-politicics-clothing-rental-services-mix-up-capitol-hill-wardrobe\/\">Women in politics turn to clothing rental services to mix up Capitol Hill wardrobe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3385304\/jasmine-crockett-mocks-laken-riley-act-trolls-maga-fsu-shooting\/\">Jasmine Crockett mocks Laken Riley Act, trolls MAGA in wake of FSU shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisVanHollen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChrisVanHollen<\/a>, I went ahead and changed your office plaque for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jNMKnbCWw3\">pic.twitter.com\/jNMKnbCWw3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMikeCollins\/status\/1913379300104880406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The jab from Collins follows his earlier criticism of Van Hollen&rsquo;s trip to El Salvador and meeting with Abrego Garcia, which included the Georgia Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMikeCollins\/status\/1913037192512893352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"calling \">calling <\/a>it &ldquo;Traitorous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Van Hollen traveled to the Central American country just before the weekend, where he met with Abrego Garcia at what appeared to be a restaurant on Friday. The meeting was blasted by the Trump administration and Salvadoran President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nayib-bukele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nayib Bukele<\/a>, who have maintained that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and should not be sent back to the United States.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/van-hollen-meets-with-abrego-garcia-after-several-failed-attempts-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... meets with ... after several failed attempts - Washington Examiner\">death camps&#038;rdquo<\/a>; &amp; &ldquo;torture&rdquo;, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!&#127865; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r6VWc6Fjtn\">pic.twitter.com\/r6VWc6Fjtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1913028548001923259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3385223\/chris-van-hollen-nayib-bukele-huge-mistake-not-releasing-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"press conference\">press conference<\/a> on Friday, Van Hollen said it was time &ldquo;to end the illegal abduction&rdquo; of Abrego Garcia and &ldquo;bring him home,&rdquo; accusing the Salvadoran government of being &ldquo;complicit in an illegal scheme&rdquo;&nbsp;with the Trump administration. He also revealed that Abrego Garcia was moved from the notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo to a smaller prison elsewhere in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>As the deportation dispute continues, another Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3385368\/house-democrat-maxine-dexter-plans-el-salvador-trip-abrego-garcia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"announced \">announced <\/a>a plan to visit El Salvador. Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) indicated on Friday that she plans to travel to the Central American country to demand Abrego Garcia&rsquo;s release, claiming his due process rights were &ldquo;stripped away&rdquo; and that this deportation case represents a &ldquo;constitutional crisis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2099925\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2099925\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican alters Van Hollen&#8217;s plaque after El Salvador trip. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) stated he modified Sen. Chris Van Hollen\u2019s (D-MD) office plaque following the senator&#8217;s visit to El Salvador, where he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran deported by the Trump administration last month. In a post on X, Collins remarked, &#8220;Hey [Chris Van Hollen], I changed your office plaque for you,&#8221; sharing an image of the revised plaque indicating that Van Hollen now represents El Salvador instead of Maryland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2425371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mike-collins-chris-van-hollen-office-plaque.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[44880,32920,53757,51466],"class_list":["post-2425370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-el-salvador","tag-house-republicans","tag-office-plaque","tag-van-hollen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mike-collins-chris-van-hollen-office-plaque.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425374,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425370\/revisions\/2425374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}