Mark Moffett

Older Marketplace enrollees face the steepest premium exposure because age-rating allows insurers to charge up to three times the premium of younger adults; without the ePTCs, required premium contributions would jump sharply for many near-elderly households.

Eliminating Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, particularly the enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) now scheduled to lapse after plan year 2025, would materially erode the feasibility of voluntary early retirement for adults ages 55–64.

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

After promising it wasn't on the chopping block, DOGE moved to kill the IRS free tax filing tool days after meeting with corporate lobbyists.

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But they don't hate private equity...even though it has the word 'equity'.

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case

What? Wasn’t Sen Ted Cruz born abroad too? Should we deport him?

www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...

If RFK Jr.'s objective was to improve the credibility of the ACIP, he failed miserably.

Does Trump keep hiring people from Fox because that's who his base sees as experts?

"Trump's tariffs will test unity among allies"

Are they testing whether our allies are unified against us?

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

R.F.K. Jr. wallowing in sewage is a perfect metaphor for the G.O.P.

Trump’s Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week.

The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week
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Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'

The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

How Professional Wrestling Explains Donald Trump's Washington Donald Trump has a deep connection with the world of professional wrestling. Look no further than this weekend's WrestleMania.

Who thinks that Trump's fascination with professional wrestling

www.yahoo.com/news/wrestle...

is how he got "shot" in the ear but has no scare?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5pD...

Assuming that this will be an elective, please let us know the profile of the students who self select into this course.

With that army of transgender mice

At EPCOT yesterday, I overhear a conversation:
"Is that Usha Vance?"
"Nah, she's still wandering around Greenland, hoping someone will talk to her."

Rubio orders diplomats to search social media accounts of student visa applicants New instructions could prompt foreign citizens to self-censor to avoid scuppering their chances of acquiring a visa

Imagine studying international relations, working to become fluent in one or more languages, studying for the FSOT, passing evaluations, assessments, and clearances, to have your job being to review social media posts of teenagers who want to study in the U.S.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I was on a plane with engine troubles...we ended up in Tucson, Arizona. I had a good time.

The Curley Effect refers to a political strategy whereby politicians adopt policies intentionally designed to reshape the electorate by pushing out voters who oppose them, thus reinforcing their political base. Trump wants to reshape the electorate by dumbing it down.

Stock market today: Dow rises, Nasdaq slides as Trump keeps Wall Street guessing on tariffs Stocks are on shifting sands as markets respond to changes in tone from Trump on coming tariffs.

So, what do you think it is?
1) Trump is playing 4-D Chess and is 25 moves ahead of everyone else.
2) Trump loves the power of having everyone on edge, wondering what he will do next.
3) Trump is a clown who doesn't know what he is doing.

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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

You let one non-billionaire into the cabinet and this happens.

Don't bail out farmers again Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout.

"Trump administration provided a $28 billion bailout via a New Deal–era program"

"The Department of Agriculture announced earlier this month that it will distribute $10 billion in "emergency" income subsidies funded by the spending bill Congress approved in December."

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Trump says the economy ‘went to hell’ under Biden. The opposite is true By standard measures such as job and GDP growth and the stock market, the US economy was in excellent shape

This. READ THIS. Please.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...?

I asked my Dad once how Nixon beat McGovern in a landslide but nobody admitted to voting for Nixon.

Like a toddler with a handgun. Take seriously -- yes, to stop him, not to entertain him.

"Obviously he's not a serious guy; he's like a 12-year-old. So I don't take him seriously."
- Sen. Mark Kelly on Elon Musk

Farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill - an economic lifeline for about 150 area organic grain farmers.

Local farmers and ranchers relied on these initiatives to sell directly to schools and food banks, ensuring a consistent demand for their goods. Without this, farmers face financial uncertainty, leading some to halt planned investments or to exit the industry.

www.reuters.com/world/us/far...

Donald Trump administration cuts over $1 billion in food programs for schools, food banks The Trump administration has cut over $1 billion in food programs that funded schools and food banks, impacting millions of children and local farmers. The move, part of broader federal spending reduc...

The termination of the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, which allocated $660 million to schools and childcare, is expected to adversely affect the availability of fresh, locally sourced foods in school breakfast and lunch programs.

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Windmills will run his electric car. He picked the wrong week to defund research on windmill cancer.

First, the fascists came for a college campus protestor. And I said nothing because I was not a college campus protestor.

Then the fascists came for . . .

You know the rest.