The report also cites Bass’ participation in a 2016 congressional delegation that traveled to the island with then-President Barack Obama as his administration sought to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
After Castro died later that year, Bass issued a statement referring to him by the honorific “Comandante en Jefe” and describing his death as “a great loss to the people of Cuba.”
Bass faced similar scrutiny in 2020 when she emerged as a possible running mate for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.
At the time, Bass walked back her statement about Castro and said her understanding of Cuba had changed over the years, Politico reported.
Bass said Castro’s government “was a brutal regime” and that she would not issue the same statement again.