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Representative for Virginia District 8
Born
June 20, 1950
Age 75
Phone
(202) 225-4376
Office
1226 Longworth House Office Building, Washington 20515
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Virginia District 8

Donald S. Beyer, Jr.

Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, his district is located in Northern Virginia and includes Alexandria, Falls Church, Arlington, and parts of eastern Fairfax County.

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Voting Record — 553
Yes41%
No56%
Present1%
Not Voting3%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Congressional District 8

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Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratVirginia District 8
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Donald S.'s ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 47 sponsored · 174 cosponsored
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Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.

Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 25(source)
AP, per "DOGE" data provided by the Trump Admin: "Nearly 40% Of Contracts Canceled By Musk’s Doge Are Expected To Produce No Savings" apnews.com/article/doge... “It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective”
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 25(source)
630,000 Virginians may lose health care if Republican cuts to Medicaid pass. Under the trigger law, even a 1% federal cut to Medicaid could cause all of them to lose coverage. Republicans are pushing this along with tax cuts for billionaires. The first vote is today; I'm voting no, obviously.
Aaron Fritschner
@fritschner.bsky.social
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“I am one of the 630,000 Virginians who will be kicked off Medicaid if Republicans get their way.”
A Virginian shared her Medicaid story as House Democrats rally on the Capitol steps to save Medicaid from harmful cuts Republicans have proposed to pay for tax cuts for billionaires
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 23(source)
"The reclassification exposes these employees to termination without due process, said U.S. Representative Don Beyer... NSF unilaterally stripped permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification." More on this here: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
Elena Litchman
@elenalitchman.bsky.social
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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 21(source)
Call it the Musk-Trump Veteran Firing Program. Nearly a third of the federal workers are veterans, and the figure is much higher at DoD. Musk and Trump are going to fire tens of thousands of American veterans, on top of the thousands they already fired. “Thank you for your service, you’re fired.”
CNN
@cnn.com
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The Pentagon announced that it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the military’s approximately 950,000 civilian employees, with an initial tranche of 5,400 probationary workers who don’t have “mission-critical” roles expected to be terminated next week.
Reposted byCongressman Don Beyer
Reuters@reuters.comFeb 21(source)
US consumer sentiment dropped more than expected in February to a 15-month low and inflation expectations rocketed as households worried that President Donald Trump's plans for steep and broad-based tariffs would eat into their purchasing power reut.rs/41gv4Aq
US consumer sentiment plunges in February on tariff worries
U.S. consumer sentiment dropped more than expected in February to a 15-month low and inflation expectations rocketed as households worried that President Donald Trump's plans for steep and broad-based tariffs would eat into their purchasing power.
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 21(source)
The Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service. It did, by law, during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was established by Congress in law. USPS is wildly popular with the American people and its service is essential and irreplaceable.
Jacob Bogage
@jacobbogage.bsky.social
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📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨 Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 21(source)
These and thousands more conscientious civil servants who have been fired are being punished simply for doing their jobs and serving the country. This is illegal, and makes the government less responsive to the American people. All of this is stupid, destructive, and corrupt. 4/4
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 21(source)
Musk and Trump are gutting the IRS in the middle of tax filing season. As Musk unleashes his unvetted cronies on Americans’ private personal information and meddles with IT systems he doesn’t understand, he risks plunging our tax system into chaos. 3/ bsky.app/profile/lily...
Lily Batchelder
@lilybatch.bsky.social
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The IRS IT system is also extremely antiquated, portions of it relying on coding language from the 70s. While work to modernize this technology is essential and ongoing, it has to be done very carefully by people with deep knowledge of the systems and coding languages. 4/5
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 21(source)
Weakening enforcement on the rich will let tax cheats avoid paying their fair share and add billions to our deficits. Musk and Trump don't care about reform or saving money, they just want to break the government so they can gain more wealth and power. 2/ bsky.app/profile/bbko...
Bobby Kogan
@bbkogan.bsky.social
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Depending on who exactly this hits, this would likely lose the government around $7 billion on net due to more people cheating on their taxes - and around $70 billion assuming IRS doesn’t rehire to fill their positions. Could be even higher if these terminations come more from enforcement.
Unknown
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Tracy Jan@tracyjan.bsky.socialFeb 20(source)
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.govFeb 20(source)
Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.
Congressman Don Beyer
@beyer.house.gov
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Days after "accidentally" firing nuclear safety workers, Trump and Musk have "accidentally" fired the people racing to protect the American public from bird flu. This is stupid beyond belief. A better president would intentionally fire DOGE and everyone involved with it.
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Voting History
553 total votes
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Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.

DateBillQuestionPositionParty MajAlign?Result
2025-01-03H. Res. 5 (119th)End debate nowNONO✓Passed
2025-01-03—Election of the SpeakerNOT_VOTING——Johnson (LA)
2025-01-03—Call by StatesPRESENT——Passed

Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.

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