Head Start has helped over 30 million kids since 1965. It was built to give poor children a fair shot before kindergarten. Now the Trump administration wants to gut the standards that make it work, while calling it “cutting red tape.”
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|California District 49
Mike Levin
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Voting Record — 592
Yes46%
No53%
Present1%
Not Voting1%
Party align97%
Cross-party3%
Mike Levin
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratCalifornia District 49
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Mike's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 25 sponsored · 100 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
The president said data centers cause “very little actual disruption” for local communities. The families living next to them would disagree.
These facilities pull enormous amounts of water and electricity. They raise real health and environmental concerns. None of that is minor to the people.
Kill the slush fund, then vote him down anyway.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Blanche cannot be the president’s personal defense lawyer one year and the nation’s chief law enforcement officer the next. The attorney general answers to the Constitution, not to a client in the Oval Office.
That conflict does not disappear with a memo.
I’m glad that Senators Cornyn and Tillis want written proof that the $1.8 billion slush fund built to pay January 6th insurrectionists is actually dead, and with it the audit immunity Blanche handed Trump and his family.
But that is the very least Cornyn and his colleagues can do.
Todd Blanche is Donald Trump’s new Roy Cohn. He must not be confirmed.
Debt spent on survival builds nothing.
Anyone telling you the affordability crisis is invented should explain this to the mom swiping a credit card at the checkout line, praying it goes through.
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Washington Republicans made it worse by gutting SNAP. Since last July, more than 4.5 million people lost food assistance, including over a million children in just 19 states.
When families finance dinner, they cannot save, invest, or get ahead.
Last year more than 1 in 3 working-age adults used credit cards to buy groceries. Nearly 1 in 10 turned to Buy Now, Pay Later plans just to eat. About 1 in 5 dipped into long-term savings for food, and some resorted to payday loans with interest rates that hit triple digits.
More and more Americans are buying groceries on credit cards and paying them off over years. A family charges food to a card, eats it in a week, and is still paying interest on that meal a decade later.
The numbers are brutal.
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
We must not accept seniors footing the bill while Washington makes their medicine more expensive, not less.
Remember this November.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Killing it means most enrollees will pay more next year, right as the cost of groceries, housing, utilities, and everything else is already through the roof.
Seniors on fixed incomes do not have that room. This is exactly the opposite of what they need right now.
The Trump administration just announced it is ending a program that has been holding down Medicare drug premiums, and the timing could not be worse.
That program kept premiums lower for around 25 million seniors on Part D drug plans.
We can secure the border and treat people humanely at the same time. I have always believed that, and I still do.
Rounding up people who are contributing positively just to fill beds does neither.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal figures show the detained population with convictions has barely moved in a year, while arrests of people whose only alleged offense is a civil immigration violation keep climbing.
Stephen Miller set the quota, and agents are sweeping up hardworking people to hit it.
For months the White House has sold its immigration crackdown as a crime and safety measure. Their own data says otherwise.
In June 2026, ICE booked 43,138 people into detention, a record for this administration. The fastest-growing group was immigrants with no criminal record at all.
This is a man who still lies that he won in 2020, who sent a mob to the Capitol to overturn an election he lost, and who now floats staying in power past the two terms the Constitution allows.
There is no third term.
There is the Constitution, and there is the door.
Reposted byMike Levin
Politics, and nothing else.
The Energy Department’s own lawyers conceded not one of those grants was cut for any programmatic, statutory, or performance reason.
Wright said the same thing under oath to the Senate and the Science Committee.
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Voting History592 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
592 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-09 | H. Res. 682 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3425 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3424 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 105 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 106 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 104 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 539 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 747 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 4216 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-23 | H.R. 4275 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-23 | H.R. 3357 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-22 | H.R. 1917 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-22 | H.R. 3937 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-21 | H.R. 3351 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-21 | H.R. 3095 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H. Res. 590 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H. Res. 590 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-17 | H.R. 1919 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-17 | S. 1582 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-07-17 | H.R. 3633 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-07-17 | H. Res. 580 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-16 | H. Res. 580 (119th) | Motion to Reconsider | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-15 | H.R. 1717 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-15 | H. Res. 580 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-15 | H. Res. 580 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-14 | S. 1596 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | 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.