Meeting with able advocates for the greater Austin Asian Chamber to discuss the harm of Trump regime policies for small businesses: President and CEO Mark Duval as well as board members Wan Kim, Minh Tran and Ahmed Moledina.

Proud of Libby and our daughter Lisa for 150+ miles of cycling in MS150 with the Tacodeli team. More support to address Multiple Sclerosis, which impacts thousands of Americans. Thanks to Kitty Bird who professionally photographed the Austin start.

Trump once said tax dodging is a sport. Now that he controls the referees, he wants to end the game. He’s pushing to shut down audits into years he paid little or no taxes—while demanding $10 billion from taxpayers for the release of tax returns he should have voluntarily made public. Outrageous.

When he’s not sleeping on the job or starting illegal wars, Trump keeps busy by recklessly spending billions of taxpayer dollars in unnecessary petty projects. He’s got no real interest in helping the millions of Americans struggling to afford gas, food, and healthcare– only himself.

Under Trump, it’s ‘land of the free’ only for the fraudsters and other criminal cronies. For hardworking, innocent Americans, he increases prices and works overtime to strip hard-won rights like the right to vote.

A harrowing essay from Zain Habboo, who shares her late son's battle with cancer and reflects on Trump's cuts to pediatric cancer research. “We should strive to spare other parents this pain, and we can. It’s not too late to restore funding to cancer research and save thousands of children’s lives.”

While Trump promised to bring high prices down on Day One, inflation just hit a new high. As Trump's own personal wealth has soared by over a billion dollars in a year, his tariff taxes and reckless war in Iran have driven high prices even higher, forcing families to make do with less.

Another Trump tariff tax failure! After a ruling that his most recent tariffs are illegal, he is demanding to keep collecting those taxes anyway. Instead, the focus should be on refunding taxes that should never have been taken and which only spiked prices for our families.

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation." From the horse's mouth, King Trump yesterday made clear he has more important priorities—a ballroom, more ways to enrich his family, how to put his name on more things.

[1/2] Trump is #1 in wasting taxpayer dollars. After repeatedly saying the painting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would cost $1.8 million, the price for this unnecessary and unwanted project has skyrocketed to $13.7 million after being handed to a friend in another no-bid contract.

I introduced the TREE Act to protect our world's incredible forests, the lungs of our planet. We must take bold actions to stop people from profiting off of forest destruction and incentivize clean supply chains. My bill elevates sustainability trade rules globally to combat the climate crisis.

Like his authoritarian pals Putin, Xi, and Erdogan, Trump seeks to suppress the free press and silence anyone who may expose his wrongdoing—even targeting the conservative Wall Street Journal.

At the same time he demands $1B for his gigantic ballroom, Trump is withholding $2 billion in education funding Congress already approved — money for teacher training, research, and community initiatives.

After insisting that the ballroom would come from private donors, Trump delivers his specialty: broken promises. While working families struggle to afford groceries and bills, he’s using taxpayer dollars on an ego project masked as “security upgrades.”

An 18 yr old high school senior with no criminal record, working 40 hrs weekly—including late shift at Popeye’s. This is the type of hard working neighbor we need. Yet instead of graduation, he’s in detention thanks to Abbott & Trump.

[1/2] After adding his face to U.S. passports and renaming the Kennedy Center and Institute of Peace after himself, Trump is now erecting banners around D.C. to "thank" himself.

8 years ago today, Trump withdrew from the Obama JCPOA designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Iran has since accumulated 22,000 lbs of enriched uranium. Trump’s reckless war appears focused on a problem that he help to create. Americans are paying the price for his failure.

Medical research funding has fallen roughly $1 billion, with the National Cancer Institute approving less than one-third of what it had agreed to spend in a typical year under Biden. The Trump regime’s layoffs and cuts are killing innovation and the ability to find cures to these horrible diseases.

[1/2] Border county sheriffs, both Democrat and Republican, are united in their opposition, but unfortunately not a single GOP Congressmember or Senator has spoken out. This is an opportunity to bring together people of all political persuasions who treasure one of America’s crown jewels.

As self-proclaimed “acting president of Venezuela,” Trump hasn't shown any interest in the rights of Venezuelans. Maduro’s secret police chief – responsible for the torture and disappearance of opponents – was promoted to Defense Minister. It’s only about the oil, not the well-being of the people.

Trump’s top economic advisor celebrates consumers being driven into credit card debt from rising prices at the gas pump, grocery store, pharmacy, and elsewhere. He got one thing right: Americans are spending more on EVERYTHING thanks to Trump’s tariff taxes and failing agenda.

[1/2] The Trump regime continues to obscure their efforts to impair Big Bend. New, suspicious construction activity near the park threatens a true jewel of our state. A border wall, power lines, towers, and lighting will destroy...

[1/2] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – the agency responsible for enforcing laws prohibiting employment discrimination – is being wrecked by a president who seems truly proud of his racism.

German Chancellor Merz says Iran is humiliating Trump. His response? Withdraw 5,000 US troops. Too weak to lead and too reckless to trust, Trump continues weakening NATO and abandoning our allies, with no one benefiting more than war criminal Putin.

[1/2] Along the stretch where Libby and I bike—one of the best places to see the cherry blossoms in DC—a treasured park has become the latest target of Trump’s wrecking ball. Ignoring environmental and historic...

$200M per day: the estimated benefits to Putin from Trump's elimination of sanctions on Russian oil—an outrageous gift to a war criminal who keeps on killing. Putin is the real winner in the reckless war with Iran.

[1/3] Cycled over to Marshall Middle School for Kidical Mass. Kidical as in critical to address the climate crisis while having some fun in the process.

As a longtime Andrew Jackson admirer, it’s no surprise Trump shows such disregard for Native American treasures. From Big Bend to Hia-ced O'odham sites, Trump’s useless wall is destroying our heritage.

Trump promised to deport "the worst of the worst." "ONLY about 5% of people booked into ICE custody in the last year were convicted of a violent crime." Arrests of people with no conviction of any kind are up 770%. To remove the worst of the worst, we’d really need to start at the White House.

Another way that Donald Trump’s reckless war has made us less safe: emptying inventory of defensive weapons we would need if encountering a genuine imminent threat, including 1,200 Patriot interceptors fired at $4M each. Restocking could take years, leaving us exposed in the meantime.

Our communities are stronger when we choose love over fear. Inspired by the bond between a local Minister & a Muslim advocate, we’re reminded that faith should unite, not divide. Whether it’s Islamophobia or antisemitism, we must stand up to hate and intolerance.

Trump claimed last year that he “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capability. Yet Iran still has about 11 tons of enriched uranium, almost all of which was accumulated after Trump broke the Obama agreement preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

[1/2] Trump’s anti-science research cuts and delays threaten medical breakthroughs and the training of the next generation of scientists. Competitive funding is down by more than half from...

Working families are struggling to afford soaring health premiums, monopoly drug prices, and access to a family physician. Reforms are needed throughout our health care system, but when a special interest gets involved, Republicans block consideration.

Millions of Americans went from Obamacare to GOP Nothingcare as Republicans took away tax credits that had made health premiums affordable for access to a physician. Meanwhile, they approved $70B for ICE to continue ripping families apart and allow Trump to spend billions on his endless Iran war.

Israel's Iron Dome covers a small area, and while an important defensive tool that stopped many missiles, it wasn't perfect. With nuclear weapons, you need perfection across 50 states. Trump spending trillions to stop intercontinental missiles is more likely a path to bankruptcy than protection

Always eager to help a friend, Trump is using the Justice Dept as a piggybank to hand out taxpayer-funded settlements to his cronies. Perhaps Trump is saving the biggest payout for himself—he is suing his own regime for $10 billion—a lawsuit being "defended" by a Justice Dept under his control.

As Trump fuels a redistricting arms race, the Supreme Court handed states an expanded gerrymandering tool a new tool by weakening the Voting Rights Act. As Justice Kagan wrote, the VRA “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers." This decision will disenfranchise many

ICE has become another 3-letter word for LIE. Lies about immigrants as an excuse for racist policies, lies about dead citizens, lies about outrageous conditions at detention centers like Dilley. My floor speech opposing Republicans’ bill to shower more money on this rogue agency.

Meeting John Hawkins, Cameron Massey, and Carrie Kroll with the Texas Hospital Assn who presented me the Texas Hospital Advocacy Tribute Award for my work to expand coverage to more Texans, rein in pharmaceutical price gouging, and stop Medicare Advantage abuses that cost taxpayers and delay care.

[1/2] The HHS Inspector General saved taxpayers $9.4 billion in 2024 through her work detecting and stopping fraud, including fraudulent overbilling for expensive skin substitute bandages. After receiving a $2 million campaign contribution, Trump...

Great to learn that my former legislative counsel and long-time trade & labor expert Celeste Drake has joined @wedemandjustice.bsky.social to fight Trump's corruption & weaponization of the courts. She will bring persistence & strategy to the critical fight for fair & ethical courts.

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope, and magnitude of his corruption.” Incredible editorial from @jamellebouie.net on the many ways Trump has abused the presidency to enrich himself and friends.

[1/2] For Trump and his GOP enablers, fraud has been a watchword. Instead of holding the fraudsters accountable, Trump has been pardoning the criminals and denying relief to their victims. There are reasonable solutions, including legislation I have offered.

[1/2] Together with @delauro.house.gov and @raskin.house.gov, I met with @elgindy.bsky.social, @janinadill.bsky.social, and Brad Brooks-Rubin to discuss Israeli settler terrorism of West Bank Palestinians and Netanyahu’s policy of impunity and illegal settlement expansion.

Good way to discourage a friendly welcome in a foreign land, since our President has managed to alienate almost everyone except Vladimir Putin. Trump celebrates America’s 250th birthday by acting like the king we fought.

Joined Austin families out for the second annual Kidical Mass ride in the Mueller neighborhood. Responding to the critical nature of the climate crisis while teaching children cycling safety. Strong family values looking after our health, our community, and the environment we all share.

The vandalism at Congregation Beth Israel is the latest reminder of the alarming rise in antisemitism in our country. Whether directed against Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or any other neighbor, such hate crimes and bigotry are unjustified and un-American.

[1/2] Trump’s reckless war in Iran has caused the “the largest energy crisis in history,” according to the head of the International Energy Agency. As consumers continue to pay for his military...

[1/2] A powerful installation organized by @razomforukraine.org featuring 20K stuffed bears to represent the over 20K Ukrainian children abducted by Russian war criminal Putin. I continue to lead the fight for the funds to track these children and reunite every single one with their families.