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“Trump’s declaration that he 'couldn’t care less' if his damaging tariffs cause prices to go up is a mighty big reversal from his promise to bring down prices ‘drastically.’ His ‘Liberation Day’ only liberates dollars from Americans’ wallets with the added danger of liberating many entrepreneurs from failed businesses as tariffs spike costs. Trump's tariffs for all represent a big tax hike for all Americans to pay. Americans will not be fooled by repeated Administration claims that tariffs are tax cuts.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Danny K. Davis (D-IL), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support, Mike Kelly (R-PA), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax, and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan Tax-Free Pell Grants Act to remove a financial and logistical barrier impairing students from securing higher education opportunities. 

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, joined by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), led 74 lawmakers in calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to rein in wasteful taxpayer overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and enact other reforms to protect consumers’ access to health care. Unlike Traditional Medicare, MA plans are administered by private insurers and have been found to be fraught with waste and abuse while sacrificing patient outcomes for higher corporate profit and threatening the overall solvency of Medicare.

"Today, Trump signed an Executive Order directing Secretary McMahon to take all necessary steps to dismantle the Department of Education, an agency that serves over 5.6 million students across 9,000 Texas K-12 schools. This reckless, unlawful action doesn’t just skirt Congressional authority—it endangers the support for the most vulnerable students and schools in Texas: the 700,000 students with disabilities, the $140 million allocated for bilingual learners, and the $1.8 billion in funding for Title I schools that serve over 3.6 million students, including many in Austin.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (TX-37), Marc Veasey (TX-33), and Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led Texas Democrats in sending a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Acting Director Dr. Susan Monarez expressing deep concern over the surging measles outbreak in Texas and across the country. The lawmakers requested an urgent, detailed report on the CDC’s efforts to contain the outbreak, combat vaccine misinformation, and assess the impact of workforce reductions on outbreak response.