Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a U.S. Congress member representing Texas’ 7th district since 2019, shared her views on Twitter regarding various issues on May 7, 2025. Fletcher has been vocal about local and national concerns, including staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS) and hurricane preparedness.
On May 7, 2025, Rep. Fletcher posted a tweet stating “Not a hard question. Not an acceptable answer.” The context of this statement was not elaborated in the tweet itself.
Later that day, she addressed hurricane preparedness in another tweet at 20:53 UTC. She emphasized the importance of readiness during Hurricane Preparedness Week by stating “This Hurricane Preparedness Week, we need to make sure not only that we are prepared personally but that our region is prepared, too.” Fletcher expressed concern over staffing cuts imposed by the Trump administration at the NWS Houston/Galveston Forecast Office, highlighting the loss of key personnel.
At 21:42:25 UTC on the same day, Rep. Fletcher tweeted a link without additional commentary or context “https://t.co/83m7873NVk”.
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher was born in Houston in 1975 and has lived there for most of her life. She graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in 1997 and earned her JD from the College of William and Mary in 2006.
