Chad Bolt

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There’s still time to repeal these cuts. That's what the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act, introed today, would do. Head to CampaignForChildren.org to tell your Member of Congress to support it, and the 16 million kids who rely on SNAP. 7/7

Without SNAP, we know kids are hungrier and have a harder time concentrating in school. Their test scores suffer. They're likelier to develop chronic health conditions, and they're even likelier to see neglect or abuse at home. It doesn't have to be this way! 6/

When states are hit with this, we’ll likely see outcomes similar to what happened during the shutdown: families faced w impossible choices to keep food on tables, food banks stretched beyond limits, state budgets that can’t cover all the critical programs kids need to thrive. 5/

Why does that matter? It’s a preview of what’s to come next year, thanks to the "One Big Beautiful Bill." That’s when the largest cuts to SNAP in history – $200 billion over 10 years – start to take effect and states will be left to pick up the tab. 4/

States found out what it would be like if they had to run SNAP without the support they’re used to from the federal govt. It didn’t go well. They had to move money from other critical programs to fill huge gaps left by the federal govt’s failure to cover Nov. SNAP payments. 3/

While SNAP benefits were interrupted during the shutdown, the whole system was in chaos. Families had to choose: food or rent? Food or diapers? Food or gas? Food banks tried to step up but they were stretched to the brim – so much so that many had to turn families away. 2/

Children Need Congress to Reverse the SNAP Cost Shift to States New Bill Would Undo Cuts Designed to Let Kids to Go Hungry Roughly 4-in-10 participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are

16 million kids rely on SNAP for more than just nutrition: it improves their health, educational outcomes, and stability at home. The shutdown showed us what happens when kids have to go without it, and why Congress has to avert deep cuts taking effect soon. firstfocus.org/update/child... 1/

Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.

Huge news here. This plan went so far that it could have affected tens of thousands of children, on top of more than a million older workers and their retirement security and the health care they need. Glad to see SSA changing course. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.

The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest.

The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.

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Children with disabilities have been left behind for far too long by existing federal policy, and these attacks further hurt them at a time when policymakers should be dedicating more support to their development. 8/

And of course, all children remain in the Administration's crosshairs. Case in point: their effort this month to go all the way to the Supreme Court to deprive 16 million kids of food to withhold SNAP funding they’d earlier been compelled to release during the government shutdown. 7/

This comes on the heels of OBBB, which cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and CHIP. Together they cover about 2-in-5 children with special health care needs. Schools rely on Medicaid to cover IDEA-mandated supports, which could force elimination of other programs when Medicaid funding is gone. 6/

In addition to these SSI changes, the Trump Admin's RIFs also gutted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which is responsible for IDEA, the key law protecting the rights of students w disabilities - leaving the office less able to enforce protections for kid in schools. 5/

This change in regulatory policy is a step backward. Lawmakers are building bipartisan support to update SSI's outdated eligibility rules for the first time in 40 yrs, so the rules stop punishing people for saving for emergencies and working part time if they're able. That's the right direction. 4/

SSA proposes to make the eligibility rules even MORE complicated and complex -- forcing beneficiaries to navigate more red tape and an agency that is already stretched thin to unnecessarily devote more time and bandwidth to administer the program that could be committed to higher priority needs. 3/

SSI is a lifeline for children with disabilities whose families have limited income and resources, helping cover the extra costs like medical care, therapies, adaptive equipment, and transportation. This new rule could hurt as many as 100,000 of those kids, by making it harder to qualify. 2/

Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and

The Trump Admin's shameful attacks on kids with disabilities are happening on every front: legislation (OBBB), regs, and RIFs. The Social Security Administration's new proposed rule to limit SSI eligibility is yet another example. 1/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...

After being ordered by a lower court to use funds Congress has already made available to pay Nov SNAP benefits, the Trump Admin is now going all the way to the Supreme Court to deprive 16 million kids of food. Unhinged levels of cruelty.

SNAP helps keep 16 million kids from going hungry. USDA has options to keep SNAP funded through November while the government is still shut down, but so far it is deliberately not using them. www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

With inflation on everyone’s minds, it’s a good time to recognize one of Social Security’s most valuable features: Its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be announced tomorrow. 🧵

Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security...

Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Admin is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance by up to 20%--which would be the largest cut ever. 🧵

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Biden IRS made it free and simple for you to file your taxes directly. The Trump Admin is making you go back to TurboTax.

Shameful.

Ex-GOP lawmaker: Medicaid cuts politically risky Former GOP Rep. Larry Bucshon, who retired from Congress in January, is cautioning his Republican colleagues that cutting Medicaid could be politically perilous.

Yeah, turns out voters across the political spectrum don't like it when you take away their health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.

They are standing between seniors and the Social Security benefits they've earned, they're doing it right out in the open, and it is to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Keep saying it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid. They’re lying.

Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over Billionaires Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo...

Cuts to Social Security are not a far-off possibility in the future, they’re happening *right now* — in the form of closed field offices and terrible service. This paves the way for further cuts later.

Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...

Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over Billionaires Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo...

READ: The GOP budget plan Republicans put in motion would slash Medicaid and Medicare -- but they aren't stopping there.

“Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.”

This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCm

House Republicans right now, waiting for Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham to work it out on the remix