Juan Vargas

Democrat · CA-52 · U.S. House

Bio

Juan Carlos Vargas is an American businessman and politician who has been a U.S. representative for California since 2013. His district includes the southernmost portions of San Diego County.

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Record of service

In office: 13.6 years
First took office: 2013 (7 terms)
Seniority: 104 of 437 by time served
Age: 65

District offices

Chula Vista, CA · 619-422-5963

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$4.1M

2020

$3.0M

2021

$3.5M

2022

$1.3M

2023

$5.8M

2024

$7.9M

2025

$7.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $3.4M – $15.8M
Liabilities: $1.2M – $2.4M
Net worth: $981k – $14.6M
Since 2019: +$3.7M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 9 assets reported

Rental Property in San Diego (1)$1.0M – $5.0M

Rental Property in San Diego (2)$1.0M – $5.0M

Vanguard IRA II ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund (VTTHX)$1.0M – $5.0M

Property in Julian$250k – $500k

Vintage vehicle 2$50k – $100k

Vanguard IRA ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund (VTTHX)$50k – $100k

San Diego City Employees Retirement System Defined Benefit Pension Plan$15k – $50k

Vintage vehicle 1$15k – $50k

Cabrillo Credit Union Accounts$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.51

Healthcare

D+0.69

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+0.95

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.49

Defense & Veterans

D+0.13

Economy & Labor

D+0.52

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.10

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.78

Government & Democracy

D+0.81

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Juan Vargas's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Juan Vargas (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Vargassits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Capital Markets Financial Institutions National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

Most and least aligned members

Treating Vargas's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.