Hispanic conservatives are sounding the alarm on Abraham Enriquez, accusing the House of Representatives hopeful of defrauding donors and orchestrating a scheme that pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years in exchange for providing access to senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Furthermore, Enriquez’s House disclosure forms omitted his primary source of income and provided no accounting of his assets. Enriquez has pledged to correct the forms after being contacted by the Washington Examiner.
Enriquez, the founder and president of the nonprofit group Bienvenido US, is running against seven other candidates in the Republican primary for Texas’s 19th Congressional District, a safe Republican area stretching from Lubbock to Abilene in the upper midwestern portion of the state. The seat is held by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), who is not seeking reelection.
Bienvenido US bills itself as “an organization dedicated to mobilizing, enhancing, and empowering Hispanics,” but nearly a dozen people familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the organization is little more than an enrichment front for the 31-year-old. Enriquez denies the allegations.
‘Literally, putting a pressure cooker in DC’
Hispanic conservatives, lawmakers, and activists alike have directly accused Bienvenido US and Enriquez of defrauding donors by lying about political outreach that never occurred, and silencing individuals aware of their behavior through the use of nondisclosure agreements and cease and desist orders.
Multiple sources declined to speak with the Washington Examiner on the record, as they had personally signed Bienvenido’s NDA or had been sent cease and desist orders by Enriquez and his legal team. But they all confirmed, on background, that Enriquez routinely failed to deliver on promises made to organizations or individuals in exchange for donations, including voter registration and canvassing.
“Unfortunately, politics can be a dirty business, and my family and I have been targeted,” Enriquez said, confirming the existence of the legal gags. “Just like President Trump had to do, I hired a lawyer to protect us. Calling these individuals ‘whistleblowers’ is a joke. The only thing they blow through is the money of the donors bankrolling their grifts.”
One person alleged that the Faith & Freedom Coalition and Job Creators Network both donated $100,000 each to Bienvenido for outreach efforts. That person claims that Bienvenido “showed no results” and “lied” to the organizations about the actual legwork put into those campaigns as part of a “cover-up.”
“This allegation is false. Faith & Freedom has never donated $100,000 — or any funds — to Bienvenido,” a spokesperson for the nonprofit, which reached out on Tuesday, told the Washington Examiner after publication. “An associate of theirs contracted the organization for a voter outreach project in 2024 at a small fraction of that amount. That project was completed.”
Both Job Creators Network and the Faith & Freedom Coalition declined to comment on the person’s allegation.
Bienvenido, per a photograph of a brochure obtained by the Washington Examiner, specifically offered donors a series of escalating “coalition partnerships” in exchange for yearly donations. For $5,000 per year, partners received “priority invitations to business events throughout the year” and “media exposure.” But at the highest end, the so-called “Empresario” $100,000 annual contribution, donors were told they would receive honorary spots on the Bienvenido board, “private calls and reunions” with top Trump administration officials, and more. At least one Mexican businessman, Javier Garza Buffington, reportedly took Bienvenido up on the offer.
“That gentleman purchased a sponsorship for the Hispanic inaugural ball that Bienvenido helped organize,” a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization said after publication. “Those sponsorships were widely available. He was never a member of the Empresarios initiative, nor was he ever asked to be.”
Enriquez disputes that his organization has not delivered.
“I’m very proud to have facilitated meetings between business leaders and President Trump that resulted in billions of dollars in investments in our country,” Enriquez told the Washington Examiner of the partnership offerings. “That’s what strong leadership looks like. My opponents wouldn’t know. They’ve been too busy attacking the president behind his back and cutting deals with the radical Left. I know how to work with the White House. This administration won’t even return their calls.”
Bienvenido has denied pay-for-play allegations, but Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who sits on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told the Washington Examiner that the organization repeatedly courted donors with promises of influence and bilked other conservative groups and campaigns for grassroots work that it never performed.
Luna previously served as vice president of Bienvenido before running for Congress. She endorsed Tom Sell in the race for Texas’s 19th District earlier this month and believes that Enriquez winning office would be, “literally, putting a pressure cooker in D.C.”
“You can look at my voting record: I am one of the most conservative members of Congress, and I go after corruption in D.C,” she said in an interview. “This is absolutely an issue that affects the public. If there’s anything you don’t want [in Congress], it’s people associated with or tied to corruption, as well as those who time and time again exhibit morally bankrupt behavior. Given what I see and deal with in D.C., as well as interacting with Abraham firsthand, I don’t think that he should at all be running for office.”
“So, needless to say, I am looking into all of this from a national security perspective as a member of Congress. Aside from that, the great thing about this country is the opinion and freedom of speech,” Luna added. “And if you’re going to run for office, you better be able to explain yourself, the actions of your organization, the financials, and why you did some of the things that you did.”
Enriquez disputes much of what has been claimed about him.
“These attacks are coming from my anti-Trump, establishment opponents,” Enriquez told the Washington Examiner. “It’s disappointing that Congresswoman Luna is standing with the Swamp by supporting a RINO Bush staffer who gives a lot of money to pro-amnesty Democrats. Not good! Unfortunately for them, I’m not going anywhere. Governor Abbott, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action, CPAC, and the National Border Patrol Council are backing me because they know I’m the America First candidate. The last thing Washington needs is a return to Sell-outs who will sabotage the MAGA movement.”
One Hispanic conservative activist who previously worked in coordination with Bienvenido, granted anonymity over fears of retaliation, called Enriquez and the Bienvenido operation “some of the shadiest, dirty, disgusting types of individuals that you’ll find in politics.”
“They always told me politics is a dirty game,” that person said. “I’ve been around this stuff for, like, eight years now, and in all my time being involved — they’re the shadiest, most disgusting people that I’ve been involved with.”
A former Hispanic Republican lawmaker told the Washington Examiner that Enriquez’s operation is hamstringing the GOP’s ability to perform Hispanic outreach. That source alleged that some reliable Republican donors have started to withhold donations to conservative Hispanic groups after getting left “high and dry” by Bienvenido.
“Everybody’s heard about it,” the source claimed. “There’s not a person who hasn’t. The reason nobody’s ever going to hear the [conservative] Latino voices is because we don’t know how we’re putting ourselves in so many awkward situations, and we’re not being held accountable.”
“I just know people are staying away,” that person continued. “But at the highest level, it’s like — Well, guys, if you’re going to blast the Democrats for ethical violations, shouldn’t you blast our own party? There’s folks within our party that are bringing a credibility problem to all of us. So you’ve got to follow the paper trail.”
Enriquez defended the efficacy of his operation, telling the Washington Examiner that he played a “leading role” in Trump’s voter outreach operation.
“Any suggestion that we did not deliver is a slap in the face to President Trump, who won a record share of the Hispanic vote,” Enriquez said.
Following the ‘paper trail’
Newly released campaign finance records reveal Enriquez loaned his campaign $100,000 drawn from his personal funds on Dec. 31, 2025, a sum that seemed high given the information the candidate had released about himself at the time.
A financial disclosure Enriquez filed with the House of Representatives covering January 2024 to Nov. 20, 2025, shows that the congressional hopeful only made around $50,000 in 2025 through his work for Bienvenido. The disclosure reveals that he made about half that sum, $26,750, the previous year. Bienvenido’s tax records show Enriquez has drawn a similarly low salary from the nonprofit organization since founding it in 2019, despite regularly pulling in six-figure fundraising hauls.
This disclosure, however, did not provide a full picture of Enriquez’s income.
“Anyone who has ever run for office knows financial filings can be complex,” Enriquez told the Washington Examiner. “As soon as this was brought to my attention, I instructed my campaign to amend my report to ensure complete and total transparency. In the meantime, I would encourage my opponents to disclose why they’re working with the Swamp that’s undermining President Trump’s agenda.”
An official on Enriquez’s campaign shared that he makes roughly $10,000 a month providing advisory services for Get Choice, a technology company serving the utility industry. This income, according to the campaign official, is what provided the funds for the $100,000 loan Enriquez made out to his campaign.
Bienvenido’s tax filings, however, indicate that Enriquez has consistently spent 50 hours or more per week working for his nonprofit organization since its 2019 founding, raising questions about how he’s had enough time to pull together a comfortable, legitimate six-figure income from Get Choice.
Get Choice is chaired by Enrique Javier Loya, a Mexican American entrepreneur who has spent a considerable amount of money attempting to make inroads with the GOP, donating roughly $100,000 to state and federal Republicans over the course of his career, including thousands to Enriquez. He also worked with Bienvenido to host the Official Hispanic Inaugural Ball for Trump in 2025. A press release identified Loya as a co-chairman of Bienvenido’s “network of Hispanic business leaders.”
If Enriquez wins his election, Loya could have a close, and financially dependent, friend in Congress.
“I’m not a rich man, but I’ve earned a good living advising American companies who want to create jobs in Texas and throughout our country,” Enriquez continued. “Like President Trump has done, I’m investing in my own campaign because I believe in the America First agenda. If someone wants to attack me for that, I’ll wear it as a badge of honor.”
Asked about the nature of his relationship with Loya specifically, Enriquez claimed to be “not surprised that my RINO opponents are attacking me for working with Javier Loya, a great supporter of President Trump and the conservative movement.”
“These are the same Swamp Creatures who will fold like lawn chairs and stab MAGA in the back if it’ll get them invitations to cocktail parties,” Enriquez said. “Unlike them, I stand by my friends.”
Also undisclosed on Enriquez’s financial disclosure were assets of any kind, not even a checking or savings account, or his interest in Chepe and Empresarios, two companies he had ownership stakes in prior to their shuttering. The Enriquez campaign official claimed that neither LLC did business with any organization in the Bienvenido network.
Enriquez has close ties to several high-ranking Trump administration officials through his mother, Betty Cardenas, a veteran Republican fundraiser. Cardenas previously was an adviser for the Trump campaign’s “Latinos for Trump” initiative and chairwoman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly from 2018 to 2021, during which time she also took a seat on the Bienvenido board.
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Early primary voting is slated to begin in Texas’s 19th Congressional District on Tuesday, and the polls will close on March 3, according to Texas election officials. To date, Enriquez boasts endorsements from Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), Turning Point Action, and the Conservative Political Action Conference, all of which did not respond to comment requests regarding the allegations raised against Enriquez and Bienvenido.
Enriquez’s high-profile endorsements and claims of grassroots appeal have been accompanied by strong fundraising numbers. Recent campaign finance disclosures show that he raised well over a quarter of a million dollars, much of which came from friends, family, and coworkers, in the final weeks of 2025. Donors to Enriquez’s campaign include his mother; Bienvenido board member Ashley Cash, who also serves as his campaign finance chairwoman; her husband; and one Gabriel Enriquez, a name shared by both Cardenas’s husband and another of her sons.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story included a quote from Rep. Luna in which she implied Enriquez has dual citizenship. Enriquez denied that allegation and the Examiner subsequently removed the quote.
