Rep. Lloyd Doggett

08/06/2026

On the 81st anniversary of Hiroshima, followed by Nagasaki three days later, we remember the more than 100,000 lives lost and the thousands of survivors who battled with the resulting lingering injuries and illnesses in the years that followed. Let us recommit ourselves to creating lasting peace, so our world may never again see nuclear weapons used in war.

08/05/2026

Troubling reports from Big Bend revealing the Trump Regime has begun construction in Big Bend National Park.

Your voice has power in stopping so much of this wrongdoing. Continue to call for Trump and his Republican enablers to provide explanation, not destruction.

08/05/2026

Movie script rejected as too fantastical! A president colludes with his recent criminal defense attorney to access almost $2 billion to reward his allies and obtain total immunity for his personal unpaid taxes.

The attorney, appointed acting Attorney General, insists orally to Senate that he’s stopping this wrongdoing, while refusing to provide any written guarantee.

Meanwhile, president appeals to overturn a court’s rejection of the collusion and begins using taxpayer dollars to reward his allies. Just another week in the fantastical place called Trumpworld.

08/05/2026

Saddened to learn that this morning Susan Dawson lost her long struggle with cancer. Decades ago, I met Susan as a successful young entrepreneur in Austin’s emerging tech sector. In 2006, she formed the nonprofit E3 Alliance, devoting her full energy to data-driven improvements in our schools. Susan will be remembered for touching countless lives through her visionary leadership and deeply missed by so many of us who have valued her friendship and insights.

08/04/2026

Earlier this year, Trump urged Iranians to stand up to their government. Now, reports indicate his Administration is allegedly turning over information on Iranian Christians seeking asylum in the United States to the very regime they fled.

What a remarkable display of indifference to Christians seeking refuge from persecution and another example of how Trump's anti-immigrant agenda overrides even the most basic humanitarian concerns.

At least six Iranians said they were visited in immigration detention facilities by Iranian officials based in the United States who knew details from their asylum cases, according to the allegations.

08/04/2026

Trading Obamacare for Trump Nothingcare only costs taxpayers more as families lose access to preventative health care and seek more expensive emergency care at hospitals.

Trump’s tariff taxes and reckless wars add to the burden. The chief executive of Community Health Systems noted “As gas prices go up, that has a pretty significant impact on disposable income for those households, and health care seems to be one of the first things that people will delay or at least attempt to delay if they can.”

08/03/2026

Like tyrants everywhere, Trump remains intent on censoring every news media that does not praise him. America without an independent press is America without democracy.

08/03/2026

Another misleading claim to distract from his failures in the foolish Iranian war— just the latest broken promise of relief for Palestinians.

Trump’s phony Board of Peace deal was rejected by Israel’s National Security Minister as “not acceptable” while insisting that “targeted killings in Gaza must continue.”

08/03/2026

With Trump reportedly preparing to begin construction at Big Bend’s Mariscal Mountain, I led Texas Democratic members and other concerned colleagues in urging delay to potentially irreparable destruction. We must stop this incredible waste of both taxpayer money and an invaluable place of spectacular beauty.

https://doggett.house.gov/media/press-releases/texas-democratic-congressional-delegation-natural-resources-committee-ranking

08/02/2026

As a parasitic outbreak harms many and threatens many more of us across our country, Trump once again shares responsibility.

The CDC team responsible for responding to outbreaks like this has been left understaffed and underfunded following Trump's destruction of USAID. Once again, it's the American people who pay the price for Trump's recklessness.

When the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year, it set off a chain of events that is still being felt in the sluggish federal response to a record number of cyclosporiasis infection...