Lloyd Doggett, U.S. Congressman representing Texas’s 37th district since 1995, used his social media platform to criticize former President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a series of posts published on May 10 and 11, 2026.
On May 10, Doggett posted about a local high school senior who is currently detained: “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.”
The following day, Doggett addressed funding issues related to former President Trump: “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.'” Later that same day, he added another criticism regarding federal education funds: “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.”
Doggett has been a prominent figure in Texas politics for decades. He succeeded J.J. Pickle in Congress in 1995 after previously serving in the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985. Born in Austin in 1946 and holding both undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, Doggett has won recent elections by wide margins against Jenny Garcia Sharon—securing over seventy percent of the vote in both the 2022 and 2024 general elections.
