Lloyd Doggett, a member of the U.S. Congress representing Texas’ 37th district since 1995, recently addressed concerns about federal policies and disaster response through a series of posts on social media. Doggett, who has a long history in public service and is based in Austin, commented on the Trump Administration’s approach to democracy, climate policy, and emergency management.
On July 11, 2025, Doggett criticized the Trump Administration for its global and domestic stance on democracy, stating that “The Trump Admin has so little respect for democracy in the US, also abandoning it around the world with plans to cut 99% of programs that supported human rights activists fighting authoritarian rule. When tyrants go unchallenged, we all pay the price.”
Later that day, Doggett addressed federal workforce and climate policy decisions. In his post from July 11, 2025, he wrote: “Devastating cuts and a hiring freeze on vital federal workers, withholding resilience grant funding, undermining the effectiveness and timeliness of FEMA, spreading climate crisis denial and reversing the most prudent responses to it, Trump is the problem, not the solution.”
In another message posted on July 11, 2025 regarding recent flooding in Texas, Doggett said: “Amid the pain and suffering so many Texans are facing from deadly flooding, Trump comes to Kerr County after undermining the federal response both before and after this avoidable catastrophe. So many lives lost that competent action at all levels of government could have”
Lloyd Doggett was born in Austin in 1946 and continues to reside there. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in 1967 and earned his JD from the same institution in 1970. Before joining Congress in 1995 as J.J. Pickle’s successor for Texas’ 37th District, he served in the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985.
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