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Others, including U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, feared that Trump may be trying to hold the program over Democrats’ heads in order to get his way on other immigration-related measures, such as a border wall.

“This is an attempt to make Dreamers bargaining chips to achieve other Trump anti-immigrant objectives,” Doggett said in a statement. “Protecting Dreamers must be nonnegotiable.”

“This is a decision to do something about a sanctuary bill which is really nothing but a sanctuary for prejudice,” said U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas). “We will never accept being drug backwards by those state officials that are kind of the Junior Trumps up there in Austin.”

House Democrats representing districts along the U.S.-Mexico border expressed alarm on Friday that the Trump administration’s plans to waive certain environmental laws to build a wall could hurt wildlife. . .Three other Texas Democrats signed onto the letter: Reps. Henry Cuellar, Filemon Vela, Lloyd Doggett and Joaquin Castro. Cuellar and Vela also represent parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Such political organizations are only looking out for their boosters’ best interests as they begin to focus more sharply on taxes as the GOP push to repeal the Affordable Care Act has stalled yet again, according to Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).

The ranking member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, Doggett’s criticism was particularly pointed at groups tied to the billionaire Koch brothers, which are hosting an event with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later today and another one Wednesday with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) issued a statement ahead of the event criticizing GOP lawmakers and the Koch brothers.

“The Republican opening act of tax cuts for the superrich masquerading as health care repeal may have collapsed, but their billionaire buddies are setting the stage for the main event,” Doggett said.

“Congress may have recessed for August, but billionaire special interests, who demand ever more tax breaks, never go into recess.”

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (District 35): “The master of distraction is at it again. Caught up in the swirl of misconduct surrounding the Trump family, he issues yet another ban to change the subject … We should honor and protect all, no matter their gender, who risk their lives to defend our freedoms.”

The Democrats, led by Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.), Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.), Ted Deutch (Fla.) and Lloyd Doggett (Texas), want Price to reveal who in the administration dictated the cut and whether officials weighed “the burden and adverse impacts” on both the teenagers receiving TPPP services and the health professionals providing them. The economic effect on local communities, the lawmakers suggested, should not be ignored.