Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
@repcleaver
This is the official Twitter page of Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II, representing Missouri's Fifth District.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the President should not be reshaping the media landscape to serve his political ends. The FCC greenlighting a merger that hands even more media power to a Trump-aligned executive isn’t policy, it’s propaganda by design. Democracy suffers…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr: "President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape, and the way he's doing that is when he ran for election he ran directly at these legal broadcast media outlets. For years government officials allowed those entities to dictate the political…
This is a win for Planned Parenthood and the patients who rely on it. The Trump-era push to defund essential care is always about politics and never about vital health care. While the court’s decision is encouraging, we won’t stop fighting until everyone, everywhere, is able to…
Trump wants to criminalize and institutionalize the unhoused while slashing funding for housing, mental health care, and veterans’ services. You don’t get to gut the social safety net AND cage the fallout. This executive order is just cruelty masquerading as policy.
New: Hours ago, Trump signed an executive order that limits local and state governments' ability to move unhoused people from streets and institutionalize them. This is incredibly dangerous, carceral and not a real solution to our housing crisis. cbsnews.com/news/trump-exe…
The people in Gaza are starving to death. The humanitarian crisis is not easing – it’s accelerating. Every delay in aid is a death sentence. The world cannot look away: Israel has an obligation to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to innocent Palestinians. That’s why I…
According to the nonpartisan CBO, Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill makes the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history to fund more tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%, while still adding $3.4 trillion to the national debt. The largest redistribution of wealth from working class…
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn Kicks 10 million off health insurance Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
This week, I had the honor of introducing @kcpdchiefgraves to the Homeland Security Committee, followed by a sit down to discuss investments in local law enforcement, World Cup security efforts, and how we can work together to strengthen public safety. Together, we’ll keep…
"They are in a deep hole of their own creation on staffing and so you just don't have enough people to go around to serve the public" The president's firing of hardworking civil servants at the Social Security Administration is already hurting services. npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-…
If you’ve wondered why it feels so hard to afford life right now, here’s your answer: The Republican agenda is designed to protect the rich – even if it means cutting your health care, your benefits, and your children’s education.
Tell me again how robbing low-income kids and vulnerable families of early education helps put “families first”? Trump’s contempt for the law – and for working families – couldn’t be clearer. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/…
Release. The. Files.
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
This week, I was honored to speak with the @MemFoundation’s MLK Social Justice Fellows at the U.S. Capitol about turning movements and protests into real-world policy changes. Together, we must keep working to build bridges that will lead us to the better world we want to see…
“American steel makers are raising prices, forcing new costs onto domestic manufacturers that make everything from cars to military tanks. The increases come on the back of President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum.” nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Instead of staying in Washington and searching for bipartisan solutions that will lower costs for families, Republicans shut down the House and kicked off their summer vacation early to avoid voting on providing transparency to the American people. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/…
“Insurers that offer plans through the ACA are planning an average premium increase of 15% for 2026 — the largest increase in seven years” Because Republicans ended tax credits for the ACA, American families will see their insurance premiums skyrocket. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
“On July 15, data from the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed that ground beef costs $6.12 a pound, up nearly 12% from a year ago, the highest it’s ever been.” President Trump’s tariff taxes are raising costs on American families. today.com/food/news/beef…
Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill will rip healthcare away from more than 10 million Americans, take food assistance away from millions more, and still add over $3.4 TRILLION to our national debt. All to fund more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires like President Trump.
Trump's recently passed megabill is expected to increase the federal deficit by $3.4 trillion and cause 10 million people to lose health insurance, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts. ow.ly/2HBT50WsS8c
President Trump’s assault on science & academia will lead to a devastating brain drain if uncorrected, ensuring more scientists go abroad to discover the next major breakthrough. This is why congressional investments in science & research must continue. cbsnews.com/news/france-tr…
Republicans are fighting so hard to prevent the Epstein files from becoming public that they have now canceled votes and are sending lawmakers home early. Why are they so afraid of transparency? nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/…
“An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that 16 million Americans would lose coverage under Medicaid over the next 10 years” All to fund tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy while still adding $3 trillion to the debt thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025/0…
“Most US adults think the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor” Most U.S. adults would be right, as the Big Ugly Bill takes healthcare and food assistance away from vulnerable Americans to fund more tax breaks to the wealthiest among us. apnews.com/article/trump-…
