Rep. Mike Levin

The Trump Administration is walking back the $1.8 billion January 6 slush fund. But you know what they aren’t walking back? The part of that same settlement that gives Trump, his companies, and his family absolute immunity from IRS audits.

The Trump Administration wants to open California and Florida’s coastlines to offshore drilling for the first time in over 50 years. I offered an amendment to stop it. This is a direct threat to our national security.

🚨BREAKING: The House just passed a war powers resolution to stand up to Trump and take the first step toward ending his unauthorized war in Iran. Congress has the power to declare war, not the president. It is time to put an end to this war once and for all. The Senate needs to act now.

Donald Trump wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars building a monument to himself at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, where generations of America's fallen heroes have been laid to rest.

Arlington is the most sacred ground in America, where 400,000 of our fallen rest. And Trump wants to build a 250-foot arch at its gates, taller than the Lincoln Memorial. Don’t take my word for who it’s for. When CBS asked him directly, Trump pointed at himself and said: “Me.”

For 26 years, Oceanside has been asking the federal government for one thing: a real plan to bring back the sand taken by the Oceanside harbor.

Trump wants to hand out 250 pardons this summer to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. And guess who’s lining up for a pardon? Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of helping sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom underage girls…

A federal judge just put a pause on Trump's $1.8 BILLION slush fund to pay people who claim they were "targeted" by the government. If they try to cut these checks, we'll move to tax the full amount of every payout so not one dollar of your money ends up rewarding people who attacked our democracy.

Ashley from Oceanside runs a small business with her wife, raises two kids, and lives as modestly as she can. Every year, she says, it gets harder. Healthcare, rent, groceries — cut one expense and another takes its place.

ICE doesn’t want you to know what’s happening inside its detention facilities. What happened when @sarajacobs.house.gov and I showed up unannounced at Otay Mesa makes that pretty clear.

A United States Senator went to check on detainees on hunger strike over denied food and medical care, tried to de-escalate a confrontation with federal agents, and got pepper-sprayed for it. My friend Senator Andy Kim is as decent and honorable as any public servant I know.

Everyday Americans are footing the bill while the well-connected cash in. That's why @crow.house.gov, @ocasio-cortez.house.gov, and I just launched the End Corruption Caucus — to push bold legislation, root out corruption, and restore trust in our government.

This Administration’s response to severe doctor shortages at VA facilities was to eliminate thousands of medical positions.

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.

🚨BREAKING: The White House just sent this one-pager to Senate Republicans on the $1.776 billion “weaponization” fund. Congress never appropriated a dime. Trump’s former defense lawyer decides who gets paid. Even Senators are eligible. This is the January 6th Slush Fund.

🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

Your energy bills are going up. Here's one reason why. Trump canceled over 300 clean energy projects across the country that would have lowered your costs and added power to the grid.

Every time you fill up your tank, buy groceries, or book a flight, you are paying for Trump's unauthorized war in Iran.

China is not waiting for America anymore. They are leading the world when it comes to the clean energy race. While they are building the energy economy of the future, President Trump is all but ensuring that we’re dismantling ours.

Trump’s “war on fraud” has a loophole: help Trump, and the fraud you commit doesn’t count.

Wind and solar are the cheapest sources of new electricity. The Administration knows it, and their own Department of Energy says so. So what have they spent the last year doing? Killing the energy sources that would actually lower your bills.

Join me for my telephone town hall next Tuesday at 5pm PT/8pm ET! I'm joined by a very special guest: Gina McCarthy, who previously served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

You cannot sue yourself, settle with yourself, and then write yourself a check from the Treasury. Donald Trump is trying to do exactly that. Welcome to Episode 15 of the Corruption Chronicles.

It may be rare these days, but bipartisanship still exists in Washington, and this is what it looks like. This week, we passed a large Military Construction and Veterans Affairs funding bill that delivers for our service members and our veterans in ways that matter.

Your tax dollars just paid a French oil company to stop building American electricity, and the gas it’s being replaced with is getting shipped overseas to Europe and Asia. The Trump Administration is PAYING to kill projects that would have lowered your costs.

The Trump Administration is using nearly $2 billion of your tax dollars to pay foreign companies to walk away from energy projects that would have lowered your electricity bills and powered millions of homes.

This week, I made an unannounced visit to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, because the only way to get an honest picture of what’s actually happening inside is to show up without warning. When we asked to speak with detainees, ICE handed us a brand new memo.

Seems like you’re the one that hasn’t looked. Gas is currently at $4.52. You know what that is NOT? Way down.

REMINDER: Electric bills rose as high as 13% last year under Trump, and gas prices are exploding.   This Administration has done NOTHING to lower your energy prices.

Correct, the American people don’t want someone who supports defrauding them and taking money away from poor kids to give to fraudsters. Your boss has pardoned over 70 people convicted of fraud, making him the most prolific pardoner of fraud in modern presidential history...

Trump promised his ballroom wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime. That was a big fat LIE. If Washington Republicans get their way, you’re on the hook for $1 BILLION for it. That’s $1 BILLION for a ballroom no one wants, yet there is no money for healthcare.

Washington Republicans are trying to make it harder for you to vote. Not non-citizens — you. The SAVE Act would prevent millions of Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote.

$400 million for a White House ballroom that most Americans will never set foot in.   How about $400 million to make your health care more affordable? How about $400 million to lower your grocery bill?

President Trump told the American people he was launching a historic crackdown on fraud. He even went so far as to give JD Vance the title “Fraud Czar.” Well guess what? He’s been pardoning fraudsters left and right.

Trump spent over a BILLION dollars of your money and got absolutely NOTHING in return.   In fact, the money he’s spending is actually RAISING, not lowering, your costs.

This should be a bigger story. Donald Trump launched military strikes on Iran, setting off a chain reaction that left Gulf countries scrambling for drone defense. Now, his sons are stepping in to sell those same countries the very drones the conflict made necessary.

Trump promised to cut your electric bill in half. Under his watch, bills rose as high as 13% last year, hitting more than 80 million electric customers nationwide. Now his war in Iran is driving them even higher.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority did something that voting rights advocates have feared for years: they weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, one of the last major pillars of 60 years of civil rights progress.

When energy costs are this high, we should be doing everything we can to help farmers and rural businesses stay afloat, not cutting the programs that are actually working.

California’s coastline belongs to everyone and is NOT for sale. Our coast is not a bargaining chip to be handed over to Big Oil at the expense of our communities, our economy, and our environment.

We knew this would happen. When you pardon 1,500 people with nothing, no conditions and no monitoring, some of them are going to go out and hurt people.

This President has not provided Congress with a single meaningful briefing on a war he started seven weeks ago without our authorization, without a plan, and without a strategy for how it ends.

REMINDER: Trump has no plan for ending this war, no plan for lowering gas prices, and few left on staff who can actually help him fix it.

Donald Trump votes by mail, so do many Members of Congress, and so did a third of the country in the last election.    So why are they trying to take it away from you?    There is no documented crisis of mail-in voting fraud.

You don’t preemptively promise pardons to your entire staff unless you’re asking them to do things that are wrong or illegal. According to the Wall Street Journal, that is exactly what Donald Trump is doing.

There aren't many escapes from Washington these days, but baseball is one of them. It’s been a big part of my life since I was a kid, and now getting to share that love with my 13-year-old son and the whole family makes it all the more meaningful.

Today I offered an amendment in the Appropriations Committee to stop the Trump Administration from canceling federal grants based on how a state voted in the 2024 election.

Today on Earth Day, I want to be honest with you about where things stand. The progress we’ve made to protect our planet, our people, and our health is under the most serious attack it has faced in a generation.

I’m sure the people Secretary Bessent talks to feel just fine. It’s easy to feel great about the economy when you’re worth $600 million.

Americans need affordable, homegrown energy that isn’t subject to the volatility of global oil markets. Trump is doing everything in his power, and spending nearly a billion of your dollars, to make sure you don’t get it.

Representing the Marines and Sailors on Camp Pendleton is one of the greatest honors and responsibilities I carry in Congress. It's also why I take so seriously what I said at today's Appropriations subcommittee markup.

Some of my colleagues keep pointing to the 60-day clock in the War Powers Act as cover for this war. Either they haven’t read the law or they're hoping you haven’t. The 60-day emergency provision exists for one situation: if the United States is attacked. Iran didn’t attack us, we attacked them.

With a single stroke of a pen, Donald Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people who violently stormed the United States Capitol on the first day of his second term in office. He pardoned without exception, without condition, and without any regard for what they had done or who they had hurt.

“They’re not very high.” That's the President of the United States, on camera, telling you that gas isn’t a problem and everything is just fine. When is the last time Donald Trump pumped a gallon of gasoline?

The Secretary of Health and Human Services came to a congressional budget hearing this week and did not know what was in his own budget. If he doesn’t know what he’s cutting, he has no business deciding what gets cut.

Oil companies knew for decades that burning their products would harm the planet. They funded the science, they saw the projections, and then they spent millions burying it.

The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched. This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?

Trump started an illegal war without asking Congress and without asking you, the American people. 48 days later, Washington Republicans had another chance to do something about it. Enough of them chose not to, not because the law is unclear, but because they're afraid of this President.

The Trump Administration says offshore wind is a national security threat. But when you ask them to explain what that threat actually is, in a classified briefing or in public, they can’t give you a straight answer. Because there isn’t one. It’s made up.

The Pope isn't the problem here. This is a president who has invoked God’s name to justify the war in Iran, yet who has failed to present adequate justification to Congress, to the American people, to our allies, and to the leader of the Catholic Church for this illegal war.

Trump made you a promise: he’d cut your energy bills in half. He started a war instead. Now gas, electricity, and groceries are up, and they aren’t stopping.

The DOJ exists to enforce the law impartially, not to go after the President’s enemies.

Good to know. So, the fraudsters and cheats who donated millions to Trump and then got a pardon from him — they’re on notice too, right? You can’t declare war on fraud with one hand and hand out pardons to convicted fraudsters with the other.

I’ve toured ICE facilities several times this year. Each time, I have to ask: how much of what we’re seeing was prepared for our visit? That’s exactly why Congress has fought for the right to show up unannounced, and why we intend to do exactly that.

A man serving time for tax and nursing-home crimes allegedly bought his way out of prison with a network of right-wing operatives, lobbyists, and lawyers, all connected to Trump. His name is Joseph Schwartz. He paid nearly $1 million to people with direct access to the president to secure a pardon.

No president in modern history has used the office to enrich himself the way Donald Trump has. That's not a political opinion. It’s the conclusion of ethics watchdogs who have spent their careers watching this stuff.

The company behind the January 6th rally that led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol has collected over $22 million of your taxpayer dollars. And the federal government made sure nobody else could compete for it. Welcome to Episode 11 of the Corruption Chronicles.

Pete Hegseth was “born for this role”? Are you kidding me?! If anything, he was born to show the American people what incompetence looks like at the highest levels. It’s long past time he resigns.

A retired Oceanside teacher who spent 25 years in our classrooms is now considering going to Nicaragua to get medical care he can’t afford in his own country. His name is Jeff.

The American people don’t want this war. Congress didn’t authorize this war. And yet here we are. Trump promised no more endless wars. Now his own party is losing patience, his White House is scrambling for an exit, and 59% of Americans say it’s gone too far.