Rep. Lloyd Doggett

06/20/2026

Medicare Advantage insurers offer advantage neither to taxpayers nor insured. taxpayers are charged about $2,660 more per enrollee than Traditional Medicare.

New report finds 95% of denials for nursing facility care are overturned on appeal—showing an alarming rate of improper denials of necessary care. Paying more for less.

06/19/2026

Juneteenth started here — in Texas, in Galveston, in the communities that turned a long-overdue announcement into a lasting tradition. Today is a celebration of their resilience, but also a reminder that the work towards a more perfect union continues.

06/18/2026

Extreme negligence has led to outbreaks of severe illness, mental health crises, and death in ICE detention centers.

Millions of taxpayer dollars have gone to fund rushed construction and inhumane conditions for thousands of detainees.

06/18/2026

Up to 2 million MORE Americans may lose access to a physician as Trump continues to sabotage the Affordable Care Act with a death by a thousand cuts strategy.

Higher costs, fewer doctors, less health care. He’s working overtime to turn ObamaCare into Trump NothingCare.

06/18/2026

Debbie Hiott has provided outstanding leadership at K*T. UT is diminished when K*T is impaired and a distinguished journalist is dismissed for encouraging the very type of nonpartisan, open discussion to which our universities should be dedicated.

Emails obtained through public records show senior UT leaders were involved in K*T festival changes before Debbie Hiott was fired.

06/17/2026

Thanks to his Republican supplicants in Congress, Trump has now secured $70 billion in additional funding for ICE and CBP, giving the rogue agencies “unbridled authority to push through [his] mass deportation campaign” while guaranteeing them unprecedented and unchecked power.

You have an opportunity to voice your opinion on this in November.

06/17/2026

Trump promised to drain the swamp. His no-bid $14.6 million taxpayer-funded ‘American Blue Flag’ reflecting pool, now algae-filled:

06/17/2026

Saddened by the untimely passing of my friend, Josh Baer. A great entrepreneur—he was a driving forcethrough Capital Factory in Austin's tech story, helping make us the dynamic, international city we are today. Concern for wife Amy, their children, and condolences to the extended Capital Factory family.

06/17/2026

After years of effort, another milestone for Waterloo Greenway with the grand opening of the Confluence. Waterloo Greenway is about honoring our shared history, protecting our natural treasures, and ensuring that as Austin grows, so too do our parks and preservation.

What was once associated with floods, neglect, and division is becoming a place that brings Austinites together.

Pleased to join City and federal partners, community leaders, and the many advocates whose vision and persistence made this transformation possible.

06/16/2026

Trump pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists and called them "great people" who went there "with love." 97 have been charged with other crimes, including 19 cases after the pardons.

Trump's attempt to rewrite history has put these dangerous criminals back on the streets, making all of us less safe.