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Rep. Ted Lieu

@reptedlieu.bsky.social

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🇺🇸 Congressman for #CA36 🏛️ Vice Chair of House Dems 🌎 ⚖️ Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees ✈️ Air Force Vet

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 10h

Speaker Johnson said he has “no strategy” to stop the Republican shutdown.

We can tell. Republicans are cancelling votes, going on vacation, and letting health insurance premiums skyrocket.

Democrats are working and ready to fix this Republican mess.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats are working on behalf of the American people.

Republicans are on vacation.

House Republicans must come back, work with us, and stop the Republican shutdown.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans worked around the clock to cut taxes for billionaires.

But they won’t even show up to work to stop your health insurance premiums from doubling.

Unacceptable.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the rich and vibrant history, culture, and traditions of Indigenous communities throughout our country.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2d

Stop the Republican shutdown?
Release the Epstein files?
Work to lower costs?

The Republican solution: Go on vacation.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

A helpful visualization of how House Republicans spend their time.

Pie chart displaying how House Republicans spend their time. The chart is entirely green, signifying Republicans spend all their time on vacation, and no time working to stop the government shutdown, release the Epstein files, or lower costs.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Republican shutdown.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Republican shutdown.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Republican shutdown.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Republican shutdown.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

Found Republicans’ to do list.

Screenshot of Republicans reminders app, unchecked reminders include: "Stop the government shutdown," "save health care," and "Release the Epstein files". The only checked reminder says, "Eh, whatever we're on vacation."

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

What Republicans are doing is unacceptable.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 5d

The secret door.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 5d

Some of our troops are in high-risk missions. Do you want them thinking about whether they’re going to get paid and can take care of their family?

You don’t want them focused on that. That’s going to hurt our national security.

Stop the Republican shutdown. Pay our troops.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 5d

Didn’t find any House Republicans yesterday but did run into @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

Listen to @congressmin.bsky.social. We will not be distracted or intimidated from the continued pursuit of justice.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6d

It is insane to not pay our troops.

Democrats are here. Republicans need to come back from their vacation, work with us, and we need to pay our troops.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s the difference:

Democrats have been showing up to work.

Republicans have been on vacation.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 7d

If Republicans want help from Democrats to pass a funding bill, then they need to work with us to stop the Republican health care crisis.

You can’t just demand our support without working with us.

Stop your vacation and get back to work. We'll be waiting.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 7d

Republican logic: Hold the majority, refuse to negotiate, go on vacation, blame Democrats for the shutdown.

FACT: @housedemocrats.bsky.social have been showing up to work ready to stop the shutdown and save health care. Republicans have not.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 9d

Hmmm... weird.

Graphic that shows Republicans absent when needing to vote on the Epstein files or prevent a shutdown, but celebrating when cutting taxes for billionaires.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 9d

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities.

Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement.

It’s illegal and un-American.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 10d

Democrats came back to work this week to prevent a government shutdown.

Republicans were on vacation.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 10d

All last year, Trump pretended to know “nothing” about Project 2025.

Now, he’s enacting that exact crazy agenda.

We can’t be silent. Democrats will continue to fight Trump’s unprecedented power grab.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 11d

Found a cockroach at the Capitol this week, but no House Republicans.

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