Chris deGruy Kennedy

For those confused by the China tariff news:

• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage

12.05.2025 11:57 — 👍 2813    🔁 1016    💬 68    📌 143

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

12.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 9175    🔁 2140    💬 176    📌 161

Thanks Bernie Sanders and @aoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to speak today about how corporations and billionaires rig our economy and our democracy for their own profits and power. #copol

22.03.2025 01:20 — 👍 84    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 11

The idea that TABOR protects taxpayers is laughable. It protects the wealthy at the expense of adequate funding for public education, healthcare, and other programs that create opportunities for hardworking Coloradans. Let's remind our friends and neighbors what TABOR is really about. #copolitics

19.02.2025 13:58 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

The Medicaid cuts that Congressional leaders are contemplating would be devastating to Colorado and the nation. Tell them. #copolitics #coleg

13.02.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

KC Becker: Federal employees should stand their ground against buyouts and bullying KC Becker was the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 8 administrator under President Joe Biden. Becker was a Colorado state representative from 2013 to 2021 and she served three years a…

Federal employees are quietly taking care of so many things we don't know we rely on. It's not glamorous, but it's so important. #copolitics

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08.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The slashing of Medicaid that Beltway Republicans are discussing would deeply hurt Coloradans -- and our economy. Our friends at @copolicy.bsky.social have done their homework on this issue. #copolitics #coleg

07.02.2025 20:49 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

In The Know: Earned Wage Access Loans Are a New Twist on an Old Idea Colorado’s financial progress is being jeopardized by new, unregulated high-cost loans, where individuals get short-term, small-dollar advances, borrowing against their future paycheck and leading to ...

If it looks like a payday loan and acts like a payday loan, we should regulate them like payday loans. HB25-1020, which goes to committee tomorrow, should be amended to protect consumers against high fees and APRs. Read our latest In The Know on earned wage access loans. #coleg bit.ly/42AJuNQ

29.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Medicaid Per Capita Caps Up to $900 billion in 10-year savings VIABILITY: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW Currently, states receive open-ended Federal Medicaid matching funds based on the costs of providing services to enrollees. Under Medicaid today, for every dollar a state spends on Medicaid services, it gets $1 to $3 of Federal support (richer states get $1, poorer states get $3). States are guaranteed continued federal support for actual spending, even if those costs go up or do not achieve desired outcomes. With a per capita cap, the federal government makes a limited payment to the state based on a preset formula, which does not increase based on actual costs. States exceeding the “cap” for enrollees would thus need to find other revenues to maintain spending levels or explore innovative ways to reduce excessive costs. This policy would establish a per capita cap for each of the different enrollment populations set to grow at medical inflation.

This is their plan to starve Medicaid. Gutting Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars will rip health care away from kids, veterans, seniors in nursing homes, Americans with disabilities, and working families. You don’t cut a TRILLION dollars from Medicaid without hurting millions of people.

17.01.2025 20:48 — 👍 1262    🔁 646    💬 56    📌 73

Op-Ed: Tightening the budget will have real-life dire consequences for Coloradans Part of our work here at the Bell includes pushing back on narratives that are misleading or inaccurate. That's exactly what we did when we penned this op-ed taking The Denver Post to task for saying ...

We should be talking about making wealthy Coloradans pay their fair share, not about which children or families we should kick to the curb in pursuit of "belt-tightening." Read more in @chris-dg-kennedy.bsky.social's op-ed in @denverpost.com. bit.ly/4g4E7tr #copolitics #coleg

16.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 7    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1