Rep. Lloyd Doggett
@doggett.house.gov
Representing Austin in Congress. Leading Democrats on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. Cyclist, Longhorn, husband to Libby, father, grandfather.
Trump’s illegal war for oil in Venezuela emboldens authoritarians everywhere to attack the small and the weak whenever they choose. In a press conference overflowing with more of his outlandish lies, Trump sought support for the very type of foreign intervention he has promised to oppose.
January 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Trump’s illegal war for oil in Venezuela emboldens authoritarians everywhere to attack the small and the weak whenever they choose. In a press conference overflowing with more of his outlandish lies, Trump sought support for the very type of foreign intervention he has promised to oppose.
Relying on incompetent Defense Secretary Hegseth, Trump claims he’ll “run” Venezuela indefinitely. If only Trump could run America competently to deal with the very real struggles of our families instead of starting another war.
Live updates: Trump says the U.S. is "going to run" Venezuela until transition of power. There are no visible signs the U.S. is controlling the country.
Live updates: US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured
President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. had struck Venezuela early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country.
bit.ly
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Relying on incompetent Defense Secretary Hegseth, Trump claims he’ll “run” Venezuela indefinitely. If only Trump could run America competently to deal with the very real struggles of our families instead of starting another war.
What better way to start another year of broken promises to struggling American families than launching an illegal war. Too weak to confront real security threats posed by powerful dictators, Trump predictably targets the weak instead.
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
What better way to start another year of broken promises to struggling American families than launching an illegal war. Too weak to confront real security threats posed by powerful dictators, Trump predictably targets the weak instead.
After years of false voter fraud complaints including the claim that he won in 2020, Trump is again trying to subvert elections by suing states for unredacted voter data. Gerrymandering was only the first of many shenanigans Trump will use to subvert the 2026 elections.
The Fight Over the Justice Department’s Push for State Voter Data
Democrats and some Republicans are questioning how the information will be used.
www.wsj.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
After years of false voter fraud complaints including the claim that he won in 2020, Trump is again trying to subvert elections by suing states for unredacted voter data. Gerrymandering was only the first of many shenanigans Trump will use to subvert the 2026 elections.
Republicans voted to take away Affordable Care Act tax credits and raised premiums for millions of Americans. The New Year brings new financial challenges as families struggle to afford care and many will go uninsured.
January 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Republicans voted to take away Affordable Care Act tax credits and raised premiums for millions of Americans. The New Year brings new financial challenges as families struggle to afford care and many will go uninsured.
As we marked 90 years of Social Security—a hard-earned benefit ensuring financial security for every working American in retirement and disability—Trump and DOGE took a wrecking ball to this essential and most successful federal initiative. The damage will likely take years to fix.
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump
Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
As we marked 90 years of Social Security—a hard-earned benefit ensuring financial security for every working American in retirement and disability—Trump and DOGE took a wrecking ball to this essential and most successful federal initiative. The damage will likely take years to fix.
HOPE. Let’s begin this New Year believing in our power to shape the future. Hope means imagining a better future, summoning the will to move toward it, and choosing a path to get there.
Hope in a Time of Cynicism
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
HOPE. Let’s begin this New Year believing in our power to shape the future. Hope means imagining a better future, summoning the will to move toward it, and choosing a path to get there.
2025 was a deeply challenging year with Trump presenting the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.
As we begin 2026 and mark 250 years of this great Nation, renewed hope that more are recognizing the threat of authoritarianism and rejecting the Trump regime.
As we begin 2026 and mark 250 years of this great Nation, renewed hope that more are recognizing the threat of authoritarianism and rejecting the Trump regime.
January 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
2025 was a deeply challenging year with Trump presenting the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.
As we begin 2026 and mark 250 years of this great Nation, renewed hope that more are recognizing the threat of authoritarianism and rejecting the Trump regime.
As we begin 2026 and mark 250 years of this great Nation, renewed hope that more are recognizing the threat of authoritarianism and rejecting the Trump regime.
Wishing you all a happy New Year’s Eve! While reflecting on the challenges of this past year, I find hope and renewed energy in the growing number of neighbors pushing back against the Trump regime’s march toward authoritarianism.
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Wishing you all a happy New Year’s Eve! While reflecting on the challenges of this past year, I find hope and renewed energy in the growing number of neighbors pushing back against the Trump regime’s march toward authoritarianism.
Impossible to collect all of Trump’s wrongdoing in one article, but this provides a reasonable summary.
Looking back at 2025 for Trump: More lows than highs | Opinion
A standard practice at this time of year is to list the high points of the past 12 months. But a review of President Donald Trump's year finds far more lows than highs, Carl P. Leubsdorf writes.
www.statesman.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Impossible to collect all of Trump’s wrongdoing in one article, but this provides a reasonable summary.
With so many still being killed, Trump's ceasefire in Gaza is not really a ceasefire. And Israel is exacerbating the health crisis by denying doctors entry into the enclave during a brutal winter.
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
With so many still being killed, Trump's ceasefire in Gaza is not really a ceasefire. And Israel is exacerbating the health crisis by denying doctors entry into the enclave during a brutal winter.
After damaging its credibility in its desire to please Trump, CBS withheld an important report, which through another error, you can still watch here. This represents the very type of responsible investigative reporting that the Trump regime is determined to silence.
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
The full segment aired on the GlobalTV app in Canada. Someone sent me a link to a recorded version. Let's see if we can figure out whether Bari Weiss' decision to spike it was editorial or political.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
After damaging its credibility in its desire to please Trump, CBS withheld an important report, which through another error, you can still watch here. This represents the very type of responsible investigative reporting that the Trump regime is determined to silence.
Bob Kafka & Stephanie Thomas have been a committed team for justice--showing that disability need not preclude active engagement, demanding accountability from all elected officials. His passing is a loss.
December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bob Kafka & Stephanie Thomas have been a committed team for justice--showing that disability need not preclude active engagement, demanding accountability from all elected officials. His passing is a loss.
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill left open a huge loophole in our broken tax code: the more a corporation pays its executives, the less it pays in taxes. My legislation Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses (H.R. 3140) fully closes this loophole.
December 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill left open a huge loophole in our broken tax code: the more a corporation pays its executives, the less it pays in taxes. My legislation Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses (H.R. 3140) fully closes this loophole.
As Trump has effectively denied the promise emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty by drastically restricting and selectively prioritizing refugee admissions, the 1000 Dreams project by Witness Change collected 1000 stories from displaced people.
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As Trump has effectively denied the promise emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty by drastically restricting and selectively prioritizing refugee admissions, the 1000 Dreams project by Witness Change collected 1000 stories from displaced people.
Reposted by Rep. Lloyd Doggett
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
The MAGA faithful are working overtime to abandon U.S. leadership of the free world in service to Putin. After catering to Trump's petty grievances, they were successful in removing from U.S. sanctions a pro-Kremlin authoritarian, who has obstructed peace and progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans
South-eastern Europe jolted by Trump’s support for pro-Russia Serb leader
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The MAGA faithful are working overtime to abandon U.S. leadership of the free world in service to Putin. After catering to Trump's petty grievances, they were successful in removing from U.S. sanctions a pro-Kremlin authoritarian, who has obstructed peace and progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Trump's weakness in confronting authoritarian strongmen continues. He offers repeated concessions to China at the same time Xi Jinping extends the imprisonment of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activist.
Opinion | Jimmy Lai and the end of Hong Kong
The fate of the former British colony is a warning to any nation that cuts a deal with China.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump's weakness in confronting authoritarian strongmen continues. He offers repeated concessions to China at the same time Xi Jinping extends the imprisonment of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activist.
No surprise that the Trump regime defends Germany's far-right political party, the AfD. Both prefer to operate as mouthpieces for Vladimir Putin rather than condemn the rampant antisemitism in their ranks.
The Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
No surprise that the Trump regime defends Germany's far-right political party, the AfD. Both prefer to operate as mouthpieces for Vladimir Putin rather than condemn the rampant antisemitism in their ranks.
Trump would leave students with disabilities more vulnerable as he seeks to shift special education services to an ill-equipped agency. More will likely to be left out and left behind, with inadequate oversight of critical services and protections.
The challenge of moving special education out of the Education Department
Some Republican lawmakers also want to ensure the federal government meets its legal obligations to students with disabilities as President Donald Trump seeks to shutter the agency.
www.politico.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump would leave students with disabilities more vulnerable as he seeks to shift special education services to an ill-equipped agency. More will likely to be left out and left behind, with inadequate oversight of critical services and protections.
Student loan borrowers are paying the price of Trump’s economic failure and administrative chaos. With repayment plans changing and forgiveness and plan switches stalled by stunning backlogs, students are left stranded with no answers while debt piles up.
www.forbes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Student loan borrowers are paying the price of Trump’s economic failure and administrative chaos. With repayment plans changing and forgiveness and plan switches stalled by stunning backlogs, students are left stranded with no answers while debt piles up.
Offshore wind power offers enormous potential to meet many energy needs, especially in Texas & the Atlantic coast, delivering clean energy with minimal adverse environmental effects. I have personally visited turbine manufacturing and installation.
December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Offshore wind power offers enormous potential to meet many energy needs, especially in Texas & the Atlantic coast, delivering clean energy with minimal adverse environmental effects. I have personally visited turbine manufacturing and installation.
Defying the disclosure law, Pam Bondi’s DOJ is trickling out portions of the Epstein files and preemptively defending Trump by dismissing disturbing evidence as “untrue and sensationalist,” including flight logs of his travels with his friend Epstein and young women, as well as incriminating emails.
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Defying the disclosure law, Pam Bondi’s DOJ is trickling out portions of the Epstein files and preemptively defending Trump by dismissing disturbing evidence as “untrue and sensationalist,” including flight logs of his travels with his friend Epstein and young women, as well as incriminating emails.
SCOTUS may yet offer some restraint on Trump’s insatiable desire for more power. Though 3 Justices are always ready to allow his misconduct, a majority declared in today’s ruling that his regime “failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois
The Trump administration says troops are needed to protect immigration agents in the Chicago area, a move officials there strongly oppose.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SCOTUS may yet offer some restraint on Trump’s insatiable desire for more power. Though 3 Justices are always ready to allow his misconduct, a majority declared in today’s ruling that his regime “failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”
Trump intimidation of the media appears to be working. CBS, now dominated by Trump ally, cuts an entire report on cruel immigration policies.
Reminds me of how my own anti-Trump comments in interview are omitted in some broadcasts here in Austin.
Reminds me of how my own anti-Trump comments in interview are omitted in some broadcasts here in Austin.
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump intimidation of the media appears to be working. CBS, now dominated by Trump ally, cuts an entire report on cruel immigration policies.
Reminds me of how my own anti-Trump comments in interview are omitted in some broadcasts here in Austin.
Reminds me of how my own anti-Trump comments in interview are omitted in some broadcasts here in Austin.