Scott Peters
@ScottPetersSD
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San Diegan, 2x dad, husband, enviro lawyer, elected, urbanist. #CA50 #permitreform #SDinDC #YIMBY🥑 #GoDuke #Padres Work acct: @RepScottPeters
San Diego, IAD, BWI
Joined May 2011
Two of my great friends will serve as the governors of New Jersey and Virginia! Congratulations to @MikieSherrill & @SpanbergerforVA. Your pragmatic leadership will strengthen your respective states and guide them to further prosperity. 🇺🇸 Thanks for starting our blue wave! 🌊
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So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??
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BTW @RickyGillCA, I'm always up for a call. Would love to better help you understand how bad it is for the President that you all are sending 3,000 family members of active duty military to their death.
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Jim Jordan was not wrong. When you control the House, Senate, and White House…you’re in charge!
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What he said. 🤦
New CEQA opinion nixing (again!) the voters' repeal of a 30' height limit in San Diego is a near-perfect vehicle for CA Supreme Court to jettison the worst of "Old CEQA." Very glad that @MayorToddGloria is determined to appeal it. đź§µ
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A bunch of boomers near me at the protest are singing Glory Glory Hallelujah as they wave American flags, just like an American-hating terrorist would.
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Hyperscalers are backing Reps. Peters and Barr's new transmission bill as part of a comprehensive permitting reform package. Here's @DCC_org with their endorsement this morning:
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I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally
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Recent reporting suggests it’s not just the BLM which has stopped processing renewables permits, but FWS and the US Army Corps of Engineers. What does this mean in practice for deployment levels? Let’s try to ballpark it. 🧵
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Texas solar isn’t a sideshow anymore. It’s carrying over 30% of energy demand for many hours most days. When we recorded this episode, solar was producing 40% of Texas’ power. Most Texans would be shocked by that number. As Bret Biggart of Freedom Solar Power told me: “The
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Don’t let the GOP’s lies fool you: undocumented immigrants can’t get Medicaid, Medicare, or Obamacare. The only way in which the federal govt might pay for their healthcare is through ERs, which are required to give emergency care to all people. Medicaid reimburses hospitals for
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Pam Bondi is so transparent, you can see right through her
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Trump is covering up a pedophile sex ring and threatening Republicans who won’t go along; Invading American cities and making memes about napalming them; Dismantling the growing economy he inherited; Wrongly deporting people to torture prisons; And the VP doesn’t give a shit.
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Even from up here I can still see you hiding the Epstein Files, Donald.
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Today I joined @RepScottPeters and other local SD leaders aboard @USSMidwayMuseum to call on Congress and the Administration to do more to help our #Afghan allies. We must pass the #AfghanAdjustmentAct and #EnduringWelcome Act to keep the promises we made to our wartime allies.
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Thank you @RepScottPeters for cosponsoring the #EnduringWelcomeAct and standing by our allies. #afghanevac
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.@GavinNewsom: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x+ the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? Eight of
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Goldman's latest (still very early) analysis of tariff effects thru June 2025: -Foreign exporters absorbed 14% of US tariffs -US companies ate 64% -US consumers ate 22% -Protected US companies also raised prices -Consumers will see bigger price increases (70%) thru the Fall
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