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WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 hours ago • 133 comments

Literally begging you to tell your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family. People have vaguely heard of “the one big beautiful bill,” but very few people know Rs are WEEKS away from uninsuring millions - and will do it unless we can get a groundswell of opposition to stop them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Congress is WEEKS away from kicking more than 10 million people off their health insurance via $1 trillion in health care cuts. It passed the House and is now in the Senate - which is planning to vote in a few weeks. Then back to the House to be re-passed. We have only a few weeks to stop this.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

The Byrd rule has six provisions, only two of which are about being budgetary. The other four prongs are: -stick within committee’s jurisdiction -don’t exceed committee’s instruction -no long-term deficits in title -no OASDI changes Senate Rs are planning to violate two of those four other prongs

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

White House claiming tariffs pay for OBBBA. That wrong. Bessent counts interest from tariffs but not OBBBA & he does 11 years of tariffs but 10 years of OBBBA. Account for that & it's a coster. Ofc the big issue is there all the temporary provisions in OBBBA. Account for that & it's a HUGE coster.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This is a lie. CBO's 10.9 million health coverage loss figure is NET of people who switch to ESI/the exchanges/etc. The Medicaid & CHIP provisions kick more than 10 million off. Some find other coverage, for a net loss of 7.8 million. Add in the ACA provisions, and the net effect is 10.9 million.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance. That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

In his testimony before Congress just now, Russ Vought mentioned pocket rescissions. This is almost certainly going to be a huge issue in mid-August and will end up before the Supreme Court.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

you could wrap around the entire earth with every person who was going to lose health insurance under the republican plan

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance. That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Tomorrow we will get from CBO: -the full final cost of the House-passed reconciliation bill (10am) -the budget & economic impact of tariffs (11am) -the total number of people kicked off their health insurance under the GOP bill (tbd) I have a press call 10:15-11 but will go through before & after

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

Trump has asked Congressional Republicans to entirely eliminate this pot of funding that among its activities combats human trafficking. This sets up a special process that's filibuster-proof in the Senate, meaning it can be enacted even with all Dems in opposition.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

The rescissions request is out. This is very real. As with reconciliation, this is filibuster-proof, meaning that there is no Senate cloture vote, and Republicans can pass it even with all Dems opposed. The White House is calling to cut global health programs, condemning people to die.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

"They're making the poorest people in America tighten their belts to help pay for giant tax cuts to the rich." 🎙️ ESB's @bbkogan.bsky.social joined @maggiedaunshow.bsky.social to break down how the GOP’s tax bill would harm millions in Wisconsin and across the U.S. civicmedia.us/shows/maggie...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

maybe there wouldn’t be so many gao inquiries if omb weren’t breaking so many spending laws 🤔🧐

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

GAO is tasked with and has been investigating whether OMB broke spending law (it did). Trump’s OMB claims it hasn’t done anything illegal (it has) and now says it is going to limit its cooperation with GAO because it claims the requests are “voluminous, burdensome, and inappropriately invasive.”

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

My “No People Will Not Literally Die From This Bill” T-Shirt has people asking questions …

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Rs say this bcuz the truth - "i don't think saving those people is worth the cost" - doesn't sound good. But if you spend $800 bn less on providing insurance, some people will lose insurance. Of them, some will get sick. Of them, some will be too poor get sufficient care. Of them, some will die.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Huge deal Tomorrow, we expect the White House to submit a rescissions request, giving Congress a filibuster-proof way to cut certain spending & allowing Trump to legally pause that $$ for 45 days But the Trump admin apparently wants to later submit another request to ILLEGALLY force automatic cuts

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Wow, Russ Vought (Trump's budget director) is planning to do "pocket rescissions." This is an illegal practice that'd institute at minimum a 12% cut to any program on the list (larger to anything behind on obligations). GAO, tasked w/ determining ICA violations, has said this practice is illegal.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

There are six provisions of the Byrd rule. Senate Rs are planning to violate 313(b)(1)(B) & 313(b)(1)(E). Respectively, they prohibit committees from violating their instructions & prohibit the creation of long-term deficits. Senate Rs are planning to violate each with the tax parts of their bill.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

For their limited filibuster carveout, the goal was to allow for additional pollution. For their Byrd rule violations, it's to make unpaid-for tax cuts permanent and to allow for them to be more expensive then they'd budgeted for.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Last month, Senate Rs created a limited filibuster carveout to pass with a simple majority what Senate rules require a supermajority for. This month, they're planning to violate two separate provisions of the Byrd rule to pass with a simple majority what Senate rules require a supermajority for.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Russ lies each time he talks about impoundment All of Nixon’s impoundment cases were decided on PRE-ICA law, & he lost every case that was decided on the merits The ICA then GRANTED impoundment authority that didn’t exist before You can’t legally impound w/out explicit allowance & you never could

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

trump is calling to take away nutrition assistance from newborns and pregnant moms 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments