Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care.
This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.
If anything is to come of this, you’d want clear language from Schumer and Jeffries *now*: Dems won’t vote for any legislation this Congress that includes a provision to waive paygo. They will let the Republican Medicare cuts go into effect if Republicans pass their tax cuts.
Jonathan was one of the very first journalists I ever followed. He then stood up QED (rip), one of the most interesting policy reporting outlets ever.
Jonathan is the best health reporter in the country, and a must follow as reconciliation gets underway.
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
Retweeting this 1000x.
President Trump's spending cuts have eliminated hundreds of workers who oversee children's programs. Office closures in Chicago and four other cities have left organizations that support vulnerable families without assistance.
Letter from tons of us, including 3 former Senate Budget GOP staffers and 3 former Senate Budget Dem staffers all say that what Rs are doing is breaking budget enforcement.
"There is no point of budget enforcement if Congress gets to pick the score it wants."
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4. With her consent, the University can confirm that Ms. Oztürk is a third-year doctoral student in good academic and administrative standing. Her research focuses on how young adults can use social media in positive, prosocial ways and she is described by her faculty as a hard-working student dedicated to her studies and the Tufts community. The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention. The University has seen an outpouring of support for Ms. Öztürk over the last week from Tufts students, faculty and staff. These individuals have described Ms. Öztürk as a valued member of the community, dedicated to her academic pursuits and committed to her colleagues.
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
From The Guardian yesterday. @bernardharcourt.bsky.social
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
Woke up with a headache.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a midday press briefing that she would have to “check back on” whether Medicaid was implicated by the funding pause. Leavitt said more broadly that “assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.” The federal government does not pay individual Medicaid members directly, unlike with programs like Supplemental Security Income. Rather, Medicaid funding is paid as grants to states, which run the programs, said Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence
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for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
Me too!