Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne shared a series of posts on October 16, 2025, addressing topics including federal law enforcement priorities, census accuracy, and recent congressional spending actions.
In her first post at 19:19 UTC, Van Duyne stated, “As a former Mayor, I know all about confronting criminal elements head on and making communities safer. Now that we thankfully have an FBI and federal law enforcement focused on taking down violent criminals, drug cartels, and human trafficking networks (instead of parents https://t.co/fyxXW7rXds”.
Later that evening at 21:17 UTC, she criticized the U.S. Census Bureau’s handling of the 2020 Census. Van Duyne wrote, “The egregious failures of the U.S. Census Bureau need to be corrected immediately by publishing an accurate census count based on American citizenship, that is why I introduced the One Citizen, One Seat Act to address the flaws of the 2020 Census.
Read more here: https://t.co/aZgQ9FVIek“.
At 23:04 UTC, she commented on recent legislative efforts regarding government funding: “House Republicans did our job to pass a clean, and simple temporary spending bill to keep the government open – when Biden was President, Democrats demanded that Congress pass clean spending bills and that’s what we did to keep the government operating.
Now, Democrats are https://t.co/XZwrPuLQ3Y“.
Beth Van Duyne represents Texas in Congress and has secured her seat in three consecutive elections since 2020. In the most recent election in 2024, she won against Sam Eppler with approximately 60% of the vote. She previously defeated Jan McDowell in 2022 and Candace Valenzuela in 2020.
