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👇👇👇 Make it make sense. MRNA technology allowed us to leave our homes and embrace loved ones again. It’s responsible for transformational advancements in curing cancer and other diseases.
Congressional Republicans and the President now own its impact. Unfortunately, it is their constituents who will pay the price for their poor leadership. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/r8lULu
For all of the voluminous punditry about the possibility of new worker-friendly Republican Party, Trumpism marks not just a continuation but an acceleration of the GOP’s multi-decade class war from the top down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
We are in the midst of the broadest attack on civil rights in a century and Trump may be ushering in an era of unchecked discrimination. My essay in today’s New York Times Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
The latest Senate Republican plan retains a deeply harmful provision that tramples over state rights’ to make decisions about how to use their own funds to ensure their state residents can access comprehensive health coverage.
The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
Senate Republicans are rushing to pass a bill that would take #SNAP food assistance away entirely from millions of low-income people & cut food benefits for millions more. Some states could even end SNAP entirely. But Senators still have time to reject these harmful policies.
Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.
New must read report from @wesleytharpe.bsky.social @katiebergh.bsky.social @aorris.bsky.social shows how the House Republicans' reconciliation bill (now up for debate in the Senate) will force states to make deep cuts to health care, food assistance, education, and other vital investments👇
“Millions of Americans will lose their health coverage, local hospital systems will face unprecedented financial strain, state operational costs will spike."
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“They're throwing nuclear bombs in the scientific community. It's going to be totally shocking, and it will take decades to rebuild.”
To see the work my husband and his colleagues have been leading be forced to such a nonsensical halt after so much progress is heart wrenching.
Our new fact sheets show how House Republicans' reconciliation bill would impact people in your state.
Spoiler alert: A lot of people would lose the health coverage & food assistance they need.
The bill House Republicans passed in the cover of night includes a new federal tax credit to subsidize private school vouchers — the first nationwide voucher program.
When you read the comments (I know), the stories of peoples' experiences with burdens are heartbreaking--and inevitably involve the most vulnerable beneficiaries. As a parent whose child has a significant disability, they're also kind of terrifying to read.
House Republicans passed a bill this morning that fails the people they promised to help. It would raise costs on families across the country, making it harder for them to meet basic needs & weather life’s ups & downs — and give ever larger tax cuts to the wealthiest households.
"No Tax on Tips" accounts for ~1% of the cost of the tax cuts in the House GOP bill, but Trump and the House GOP talk about it way more than 1% of the time because distracts from the tax breaks tilted toward the wealthy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
This week, US House Republicans advanced legislation for the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history. If enacted, it will strip hundreds of thousands in NC of vital supports and erect new barriers to health, employment outcomes, and well-being. ncbudget.org/us-hous... #ncpol
Conditioning Medicaid and health care services on work is cruel, counterproductive, and defeats the whole purpose of having insurance
Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
What else would you expect from a plan that takes away health care, cuts food assistance, dismantles progress on climate change, and increases the cost of college all to give the very rich big tax cuts.
After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.
So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
“Whatever Republican policymakers may think, these policies aren’t popular with the public because they aren’t consistent with core American values, which include helping people when they fall on tough times and expecting wealthy people to pay their fair share.”
