Rep. Mike Levin

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Rep. Mike Levin

@RepMikeLevin

Proud husband/dad, SoCal native, clean energy advocate, environmental attorney, Stanford/Duke alum. U.S. Representative for CA-49. Official account.

California’s 49th District Katılım Aralık 2018

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·19m

Unbelievable. This Administration uses incompetence as a shield against accountability at each and every opportunity. Betting on the lives of our service members, on war, on assassination, and on death is morally indefensible. Suspicious insider betting has become so much of an issue that the White House had to remind its staff that it’s illegal. Congress needs to pass the DEATH BETS Act I introduced with @SenAdamSchiff NOW.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

WARREN: Do you have any explanation for these perfectly timed spikes in trading activity other than insider trading? HEGSETH: Everything we've done is completely above board WARREN: What does that mean? HEGSETH: I'm focused on doing my job WARREN: You're not paying attention to this insider trading?

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·2h

🔔 Applications for Military Service Academy nominations through my office are now open! It is an honor to nominate students to these historic institutions. To learn more about requirements and how to apply, visit⤵️ levin.house.gov/services/milit…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·4h

This week, a Pentagon official told Congress under oath that the war in Iran has cost $25 billion. Now, officials are saying the real figure is closer to $50 billion, and neither number includes what you're paying at the grocery store and the gas pump every single month because of it. This war was started without a single vote in Congress. The American people were never given a say in whether or not they wanted it. It is being fought without a plan. And now, it turns out, it is being accounted for without honesty. Two months in, the bill keeps getting bigger, and this Administration can't even be bothered to tell the American people the truth about what it costs. cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·1d

Project 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124, reassigning doctors and epidemiologists to finance offices and hazardous waste permitting desks that have nothing to do with their expertise. For more than 50 years, that office produced the independent science behind every major clean air and clean water protection this country has. It existed specifically to be free from political interference. The scientists who remain answer to Trump appointees, and their work must now conform to the Administration's agenda. No other institution in the United States can replace what's being lost. Once that expertise is dismantled, it doesn’t come back in a year or a decade. It’s a generation of progress erased, deliberately, methodically, and exactly according to plan. nytimes.com/2026/04/27/cli…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·6h

$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? How about $400 million to actually help make life easier for families instead of funding a party venue for one man?   Maybe Sen. Graham should ask the families who just lost their health care what they’d do with $400 million.

Acyn@Acyn

Graham on Ballroom: If you don't think $400 million of taxpayer money is a good investment to create a secure facility at The White House, then I disagree. I bet you 90% of Americans would love to have a better facility.

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·17h

Pete Hegseth was asked this week about whether he would follow an order from Donald Trump to seize ballots or voting machines in the 2026 election. He called it a gotcha hypothetical, but it’s not. It is not a hypothetical. Trump has said publicly he wishes he had done exactly that in 2020. The Secretary of Defense refusing to answer whether he would follow an illegal order to interfere in an American election is an answer.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

SLOTKIN: If the president asks you to seize ballots or voting machines in states during the 2026 election, will you stand up for the Constitution and say 'no,' or will you salute and do his bidding? HEGSETH: It's yet another gotcha hypothetical, which is your speciality SLOTKIN: It's not a hypothetical. The guy you're performing for right now says he wishes he signed that executive order in 2020 for your predecessor! HEGSETH: You're performing for cable news right now. By the way, in 2024, 15 states did deploy troops to polling stations SLOTKIN: Under their governor's authority!

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·23h

This is the question worth asking every time a story like this comes out: if there’s no money for your health care, your kids’ schools, or the programs your family depends on, where is it going?    The Trump Administration just paid $17.4 million to fix two decorative fountains outside the White House. Three years ago, the same job was estimated at $3.3 million.     And guess what? The construction company that got the contract is the same one building Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, and they got it without any competitive bidding whatsoever. The contract wasn’t even posted publicly, as required by federal law.    So how do you get from $3.3 million to $17.4 million? They added 27% for inflation. Then they added another 24% for inflation again. Then they tacked on additional charges that federal contracting experts said they had never seen before in their careers.    And the justification for bypassing the normal bidding process entirely? The fountains needed to be ready for America’s 250th anniversary. It’s worth noting that these fountains haven’t worked for nearly a decade. If the repairs were truly that urgent, why are they only fixing them now, and why are taxpayers footing a surcharge for the rush?    You are paying for this.  nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·19h

The American people have rendered their verdict on the Iran war: 61% say it was a mistake, putting it on par with the Iraq War and Vietnam in terms of public disapproval. We are paying more for gas and groceries because of it. We feel less safe because of it. And two months in, the Trump Administration still cannot tell us what the plan is or what the endgame looks like. That is what happens when a president takes a country to war without congressional approval and without giving the American people a say. Mr. President: the American people do not want this war. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·1d

The Trump Administration is using the Justice Department to pay back the President’s political allies and supporters, and they are doing it with your money. More than $8.5 million in taxpayer dollars have already gone to Trump allies who argue they were wrongly targeted under previous administrations, even for claims that courts had already rejected. And guess what? Trump himself has requested $230 million from the same Justice Department he controls, demanding personal “compensation” for the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia. The President is using the Justice Department to settle political scores and line his own pockets, all on the American taxpayer’s dime. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·1d

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. Welcome to Episode 4 of the Pardon Papers. More than 70 people convicted of fraud have received clemency from Donald Trump. Yes, that's right. The President leading the war on fraud is also the most prolific pardoner of fraud in modern presidential history. Read that again. I’ll keep exposing this, because the same president telling you he’s hunting down fraudsters has spent two terms making sure the biggest ones never see the inside of a prison cell.

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·2d

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. He paid $928 million to a French energy company to cancel wind farms that would have lowered your electricity bills. He claimed he secured new American energy investments in exchange. New documents show that was false. The company was already planning every single one of those investments. Trump handed them a billion dollars and got nothing — NOTHING — in return. And guess what? He’s getting ready to do it all over again in California and New York. He wants taxpayers on the hook for $1.8 BILLION to stop your energy bills from going down. This is a President who lost in court, opened your wallet, lied about what he bought, and is now lining up to do it again.

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·2d

It shouldn’t be too much to expect the Secretary of Defense to know what he’s talking about when he testifies before Congress. And at a bare minimum, he should be able to articulate a clear, legitimate reason for launching a war and putting American lives in danger. Yes, a nuclear-armed Iran is dangerous and unacceptable. But decisions involving human life demand the greatest caution and deliberation. Pete Hegseth can’t even soundly explain the status or point of the war to Congress, the body that is supposed to fund it. Congress deserves a straight answer about this war, and it has yet to receive one. Insufficient doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

HEGSETH: Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated SMITH: Whoa whoa whoa whoa. We had to start this war, you just said, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying it was completely obliterated? HEGSETH: They had not given up their *ambitions* SMITH: So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance HEGSETH: You're missing the point

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·2d

Not enough people are talking about this. The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution. This is a deliberate policy choice, pushed by White House officials, that would slash SSI payments by up to a third, or wipe them out entirely, for some of the most vulnerable people in this country. Many of them live with low-income parents and siblings who already qualify for food stamps. The Trump Administration claims its goal is to root out fraud, but there is no fraud to address here. SSI recipients are among the most thoroughly vetted benefit recipients in the federal government. Fewer than one in three SSI applicants ever gets approved, and those who do have spent years navigating medical evaluations, vocational assessments, and hearings before a federal judge. The average household supporting an SSI recipient on SNAP earns just $17,000 a year. This isn't a war on fraud. It’s a war on families who are trying to take care of their own. This is a cruel betrayal of the values our nation stands for. They are coming for SSI, and they are hoping you aren’t paying attention. propublica.org/article/trump-…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·3d

This week, Trump called his blockade of Iranian ports "genius." Here’s what else happened this week: oil hit $126 a barrel, gas hit $4.30 nationally, and energy prices reached their highest point in four years. He ran on ending forever wars and cutting your cost of living. Instead, he started an unauthorized war with no congressional approval, no exit strategy, and no deal anywhere in sight. American families are paying for every bit of it at the pump and at the grocery store. But sure...genius. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·3d

Washington Republicans spent two months telling you the President had 60 days before Congress needed to weigh in on the Iran war. Today is that deadline, and now that it’s here, Pete Hegseth walked into the United States Senate and invented a bogus legal argument because the real law offers him nothing. He’s claiming the ceasefire “paused the clock” on congressional authorization. Here’s why that’s complete BS. This argument has never been made by any administration of either party in the 50 years since this law was written. It has no precedent because it has no basis. More importantly, Trump never had 60 days to wage this war without Congress in the first place. That’s not what the Constitution says, it’s certainly not what the War Powers Act says, and it’s not backed by any serious reading of the law. The War Powers Act does NOT give the President 60 days to start a war on his own. It allows limited action without Congress only if the United States is under attack. Perhaps Secretary Hegseth needs a reminder here that we bombed Iran first, not the other way around. Republicans who spent two months hiding behind the 60-day clock were wrong on the law and used it to avoid calling out an illegal war. Hegseth is just looking for a way out and just made it worse by building a new lie on top of an old one. A law you don’t want to follow is still a law, and no amount of creative testimony from Pete Hegseth changes that. wsj.com/politics/polic…

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Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·3d

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. The president starts a war, the war creates demand, his own family moves in to profit, and foreign governments, desperate for American military backing, feel enormous pressure to buy. This is the first family in American history to profit from a war their father started without Congress’s consent. That is a level of corruption this country has never seen before. The American people deserve to know who exactly their government is working for, because right now it is not working for you. Welcome to Episode 14 of the Corruption Chronicles.

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