Meg Wiehe

👇👇👇 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.

I mean, this is what non-doctor, non-scientist, non-public health expert RFK Jr has decided to toss in the trash bin. It's infuriating.
(Screen shot link from NIH website ... for now pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/ )

Republican Bill Will Raise Costs, Poverty, and Hunger, Take Health Coverage Away From Millions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities House and Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families’ food and health care costs, increase poverty and hunger, take health coverage away from millions of people, and drive up d...

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...

@nikitagill.bsky.social providing inspiration on this dark day

What Trump’s massive bill would actually do, explained It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.

It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/r8lULu

Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package

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...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

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...

Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025

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 ⬇️

Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...

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."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“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...

US House plan: Hurting North Carolinians’ wallets and well-being - NC Budget & Tax Center North Carolinians want their policymakers to keep rising costs in check and make their lives better — not worse.  Yet some policymakers continue to rig the rules so that the rich get richer, leaving the rest of us without the supports we all need in hard times — like help getting to the doctor or…

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

A Sankey diagram by Taylor Maggiacomo from the linked column by Matt Bruenig that shows the distribution of age and employment status of Medicaid recipients in 2022. In particular it shows that only 3% of Medicaid recipients were working age but not working long term

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.

Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.

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.”

House Republicans have explicitly linked the cost-shift to "accountability" for 40+ states that use a federal option to expand access to SNAP for working families with kids, seniors & disabled people. It's just a deeply cynical ploy to force states to make cuts they don't want to get blamed for.

The always on point @nikitagill.bsky.social

New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday:

Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).