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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents Central Texas communities in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee on the House Ways & Means Committee. Doggett also serves on the Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the House Budget Committee.
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“With his complete federal control, Trump is now about to add a hunger crisis to the health care crisis he has created. Only he can stop these crises. Beginning on Monday and by the end of November, 3.7 million Texans, who rely on SNAP to put food on the table, will lose assistance. He could act immediately to prevent hunger by simply using his contingency funding and transfer authority—moving as quickly as he did to give Argentina a $40 billion bailout. To end this shutdown, he should immediately direct his Republican enablers to negotiate a bipartisan agreement with Democrats to stop enormous price spikes on health insurance premiums."
Issues:Our Families and Children
“As usual, Greg Abbott is an eager accomplice to Trump's wrongdoing. The illegal deployment of U.S. troops against U.S. citizens has never been about crime or immigration; Trump only wants to normalize the misuse of our military against his opponents. Having previously declared that ‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,’ Trump seeks a military personally loyal to him, not the Constitution—the kind of subservient military that any able dictator requires to stay in power.”
Issues:Immigration
Washington, D.C.—With the beginning of this National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) announced $16,989,375 million in federal funds for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, “The Hotline,” based in Austin, to continue serving as the country’s designated crisis hotline to provide confidential and lifesaving support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.