Congressman Byron Donalds, who represents Florida’s 19th district in the U.S. Congress, issued a series of public safety and policy-related updates on his social media account on July 30, 2025.
In a post at 03:18 UTC, Donalds alerted travelers about estimated wave arrival times along the West Coast. He wrote, “ARE YOU VISITING THE WEST COAST?
Per @NWS and @NWS_NTWC, estimated wave arrival times will begin at these times:
July 29th
1005 PM PDT — Langara, BC
1130 PM PDT — Tofino, BC
1135 PM PDT — Port Orford, OR
1135 PM PDT — La Push, WA
1140 PM PDT — Neah Bay, WA
1145 https://t.co/7Re4v264Zs“.
Later that morning at 03:28 UTC, he addressed visitors to Hawaii with information about emergency preparedness. Donalds posted, “ARE YOU VISITING HAWAII?
To find the nearest emergency shelter please visit: https://t.co/PA88Xi06cg
For more updates follow @CivilDefenseHI and @Hawaii_EMA. https://t.co/HlwH4dDkiI“.
At 11:34 UTC on the same day, Donalds shared news coverage of his attendance at an upcoming NASA SpaceX launch event. Quoting Politico directly in his tweet he stated, “.@politico: ‘GOP Rep. BYRON DONALDS is attending NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch Thursday as he pushes for NASA’s headquarters to be relocated from Washington to Florida and for the Air Force to modernize Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37.’ https://t.co/zLx78jZBCy”.
Byron Donalds has served in Congress since 2021 after previously holding office in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020. He was born in Brooklyn in 1978 and currently resides in Naples. Donalds holds degrees from both Florida A&M University and Florida State University.
