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Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt
Official account of United States Senator Eric Schmitt.
Apr 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
What I've found is staggering.

46,547 OPT workers. 19,285 employers.

New OPT data from California was provided to my office.🧵 Image Remember, OPT lets foreign students work in jobs directly related to their college major.

STEM gets UP TO 3 YEARS. Employers skip taxes—a 15%+ subsidy.

Cheap foreign labor on steroids, while Americans bear the cost of their own replacement.
Apr 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Today, I am chairing a hearing that will expose how Arctic Frost became the backbone of a sweeping lawfare campaign against President Trump and the American Right.

This was coordinated pressure campaign against an entire political movement.

Americans demand accountability. 🧵 Image The hearing will focus on how Arctic Frost turned into a dragnet reaching President Trump, his lawyers, former officials, Republican organizations, conservative institutions, communications records, and Members of Congress.

That is raw use of unchecked state power.
Apr 14 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"The pursuit of this improper investigation is a clear abuse of discretion." Judge Boasberg just got slapped down...again.

The walls are closing in on his crusade to jail Trump officials for DEPORTING Venezualan terrorists.

It's clear: time to impeach Rogue Judge Boasberg. 🧵 Image
Image To review: last March, Judge Boasberg forced himself onto the "turn the planes around" case—just a few days after trying to foment a constitutional crisis at a Judicial Conference meeting.

He has spent the past year trying to jail prosecutors and cabinet Secretaries. Image
Apr 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Update in my fight to dismantle the broken OPT system—ICE just got me the numbers:

In Missouri alone there are 4,430 OPT visas—many working in jobs that are out-of-scope, stealing opportunities from young Missourians.

Here are some of the worst examples.🧵 OPT jobs *must* be directly related to the student’s major area of study.

And if you're a STEM major, you get *3-years of work authorization.*

Not only that, OPT holders are exempt from FICA taxes—a >15% tax subsidy for employers.
Apr 9 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Did you know our Judiciary has its own taxpayer-funded “neutral training pipeline"?

Meet the USAID of Article III.

The Federal Judicial Center. What I've uncovered isn't "neutral" judicial training. It's ideological capture. Take a look at how it's infecting our judiciary. 🧵 Image The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the official research and education arm of the federal courts, created by Congress to train and equip our nation's judges.

It shapes how these judges evaluate evidence.

Its materials influence real court cases across the country every day.
Apr 2 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
ActBlue, the Democrats’ campaign cash machine, has faced many recent criminal allegations.

• Illegal "Smurfing"
• Turning a "blind eye" to illegal foreign donations
• Nonprofit fraud

Now it's time to add "lying to Congress."

Could we finally see a criminal investigation? 🧵 Image The core problem is simple:

ActBlue touted to Congress supposed “multilayered” protections, but investigators found major gaps in how its fraud controls were actually applied.

That’s not only an election-integrity problem. It’s also potentially a criminal problem.
Apr 2 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
How do we deport 1 million illegal aliens in 2026?

@Phase2Deport just released a playbook to help do just that. I hope my Senate colleagues read this one.

Let's break it down. 🧵 Image What they've done is lay out a list of 21 ways to both:

1. Incentivize illegal aliens to self-deport.
2. Retool our federal government's approach to identify and prioritize mass deportations. Image
Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The Trump DOJ recently won a massive case at the 8th Circuit.

For months, rogue district court judges in MN have engaged in all-out resistance.

ICE would arrest illegal aliens, but these judges would then immediately spring them loose.

The 8th Circuit just put an end to it. Image A bit of background:
In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA).
The bill passed with large bipartisan majorities.

President Clinton signed it.

(This was before Democrats adopted their radical open borders ideology.)
Apr 1 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
Live-tweeting now while listening in: Oral arguments in the landmark birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara.

There is 1 hour scheduled for the argument, but I expect this argument to go somewhere around 2.5-3 hours, given how thorny and important of an issue this is. 🧵 Arguing today are Solicitor General John Sauer, who was my Solicitor General when I was Attorney General of Missouri. He has a very impressive win record at the Supreme Court and is representing the government.

And Cecilia Wang, the National Legal Director for the ACLU.
Apr 1 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Today, the Supreme Court will hear the Birthright Citizenship case.

American citizenship is a sacred privilege, not an automatic gift to those who break our laws.

I've been fighting on this issue in the Senate and at the Supreme Court. Here's what I'll be listening for. 🧵 Image The case—Trump v. Barbara—presents SCOTUS with this question:

Whether President Trump's executive order interpreting the 14th Amendment and federal law to NOT require unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors is legal. Image
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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The H-1B visa system is riddled with abuse.

This new study confirms it: Companies aren't using H-1B visas to bring in the "best and brightest"; many are using them to import cheap foreign labor and undercut US wages.

We must end this abuse and protect the American worker. Image The study found companies pay H-1Bs 16% LESS than comparable American workers.

So over the 6-year term of an H-1B visa, employers save more than $100,000 by hiring foreigners instead of Americans.

That's why President Trump put a $100k filing fee on new H-1B applications. Image
Feb 13 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Every day we are hearing new stories out of college sports that just don’t make sense – the system is broken.

This year we can stabilize the environment, put athletes first & protect the fan experience🧵 As the Commerce Committee works to address the issues this year, here are some of the things that we can do to fix college sports once and for all.

✅Secure Stability
✅Put Players First
✅Save Women's & Olympic Sports
✅Ensure College Sports Can Endure
Feb 5 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A Leftist NGO testified before @SenJudiciaryGOP, arguing against President Trump's recent anti-fraud efforts.

I did a little digging into the NGO—Public Citizen—and found two things:
1. It's funded by George Soros.
2. It calls everything it doesn't like "racist."

Receipts. 🧵 Public Citizen, which calls itself a "national public interest organization," is actually a foot soldier in the George Soros extended NGO network, receiving over $6 million in recent years from Soros's "Open Society" leftist NGO slush fund. Image
Feb 3 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Netflix once said it had a "duty" to "speak up" for DEI, gender ideology, and other left-wing causes.

Today, their CEO suddenly forgot how to answer.

Netflix came to the Senate, asking we rubber-stamp their $100B acquisition of Warner Bros.

Receipts. 🧵 In June 2020, Netflix tweeted out a video titled "To My White Friends: Guilt, Shame, Embarrassment"

Netflix followed on with a tweet quoting: “We need to do everything in our power to amplify that message..."
Feb 2 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was never meant to grant citizenship to children of illegal aliens, tourists, or foreign students.

The Drafters said so explicitly. The courts ignored them.

For our national sovereignty, security, and Constitution, I filed this brief. 🧵 Image Here's what's happening:

President Trump issued an executive order clarifying that the Constitution doesn't grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens.

Activist judges blocked it.

Now it's up to SCOTUS.
Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on a simple Q: Does our Constitution ban states from recognizing the biological differences btwn men and women in sports?

No, it doesn't.

As Chairman of the Subcomm. on the Constitution—& as a dad of two daughters—here is what I am listening for. 🧵 The case today is a consolidation of two cases: one out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho.

Both involve laws protecting fairness in girls’ athletics by basing teams on biological sex at birth. The lower courts got each wrong. SCOTUS must step in.
Dec 20, 2025 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Foreign governments are building a global censorship-industrial complex to crush freedom of speech online.

Now, they're trying to force social media companies to censor American speech on U.S. soil.

I wrote to @elonmusk to sound the alarm. 🧵 Image In Europe and elsewhere, foreign governments have imposed draconian censorship on their own people.

But they're also trying to impose it here—wielding their power to force U.S. companies to manipulate algorithms and take down content posted on U.S. soil.
Dec 18, 2025 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
European governments have imposed tyrannical censorship on their own citizens.

Now, they're trying to impose it on America.

Today, I'm asking the Trump Administration to sanction foreign actors—in the European Union and elsewhere—who aid and abet this censorship regime. 🧵 Image Over the past decade, we've seen alarming attacks on basic liberties across the West. In Europe, many governments have thrown their citizens in jail—sometimes for years at a time—for criticizing mass immigration, gender ideology, and various other parts of the left-wing program. Image
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Dec 18, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Rogue Judge Boasberg has been rubber-stamping gag orders in violation of the law. The federal courts response: "these requests are normally granted."

This practice aids and abets prosecutorial abuses.

Here's what happened—and how it connects to Judge Boasberg and Jack Smith.🧵 Recently, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts sent a letter to Congress admitting that judges have been improperly rubberstamping non-disclosure orders—gag orders that prevent phone companies from alerting customers that law enforcement has subpoenaed their records. Image
Dec 17, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I was just targeted and sued by Communist China in a $50 Billion Lawfare campaign—retaliation against me for winning a $24 Billion judgment against China for hoarding PPE during COVID.

This baseless, meritless lawfare is unprecedented. I'm fighting it with everything I've got.🧵 Image April 2020: I filed Schmitt v. the People's Republic of China, fighting back against the PRC's hoarding of PPE and lying to the international community.

Today: The Wuhan Virology Lab (yes, that one) and the Chinese Government are suing me for exposing the truth. Image
Dec 15, 2025 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
20 Democrat states are suing the Trump Administration to block its H-1B visa crackdown.

These states claim they need H-1Bs to import "skilled foreign workers."

But let's take a look at how they're actually using these visas. 🧵 We'll start with California, whose AG accused the Trump Administration of trying to "shut out the skilled workers America depends on."

He claimed H-1Bs are needed to import "highly skilled foreign national workers" to fix "nationwide labor shortages."
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