Rep. Ted Lieu

Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House.

If Trump said “end the shutdown,” Republicans would do it.

No deployment of the military in our cities.

No illegal mass racial profiling.

No kings in America.

Wow, Trump just commuted disgraced former Congressman George Santos’ sentence.

He must really want to distract from the Republican shutdown and the Epstein files.

The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown About 10 million small-business owners, employees and the self-employed are caught in the middle of the shutdown fight over the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans are willing to let millions of self-employed Americans, small business owners, and workers see their health insurance prices massively increase.

Democrats are fighting back against this.

A graphic comparing House Democrats this week vs. House Republicans. Below "House Democrats This Week" is a picture of the House Democratic Caucus on the Capitol steps. Below "House Republicans" is a picture of a beach vacation.

Here’s the difference.

Republicans have no strategy and refuse to negotiate.

They own this shutdown.

Mike Johnson has “no idea” how the Republican shutdown ends.

Here’s an idea: Come back to DC, work with Democrats, AND SAVE HEALTH CARE.

Oh, and “outrageous” is cancelling votes and sending Republican members on 3 weeks of paid vacation.

Republicans are increasing your health care costs and afraid to come back to DC because they don’t want to vote on the Epstein files.

Wall Street Journal article titled “Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt.” Below is a graph showing the prices of coffee, beef, and bananas increasing.

Coffee, beef, vegetables, and dairy – all more expensive.

Trump’s economy sucks, and Republicans are making it worse by shutting down the government and letting health insurance premiums double.

Democrats are back in DC today to stop this insanity.

We’re in the third week of the Republican government shutdown and Republicans are still on vacation.

That is unacceptable.

House Democrats are here in DC working on behalf of the American people.

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.

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.

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

The Republican solution: Go on vacation.

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.

A helpful visualization of how House Republicans spend their time.

This is the Republican shutdown.

This is the Republican shutdown.

This is the Republican shutdown.

This is the Republican shutdown.

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."

Found Republicans’ to do list.

What Republicans are doing is unacceptable.

The secret door.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here’s the difference:

Democrats have been showing up to work.

Republicans have been on vacation.

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.

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.