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Nancy Pelosi
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REMINDER: this year is the first year Americans file their taxes after Republicans in complete control of Washington rammed through the #GOPTaxScam.

Since then, several things have happened. #TaxDay
🚫 Manufacturers closed plants to ship jobs overseas.

🚫 Big corporations paid zero in taxes while ordinary, hard-working people got slapped with a tax hike.

🚫 Trump is actively pushing to gut of over $2 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Meanwhile, Trump can't seem to get his story straight about why he refuses to release his taxes. Show us the tax returns. #WhatsInYourReturn?
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Nancy Pelosi
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When I was first elected, there were only 23 women in the House. This year, as we commemorate 100 years since women won the right to vote, we celebrate the over 100 women who now serve in the Congress — the highest number in our history. #WomensHistoryMonth
We celebrate our victories and the contributions women have made in all sectors of American life.

We know that when women succeed, this country succeeds.
That’s why Democrats are fighting to:

✅ Secure equal pay for equal work.

✅ Protect every woman’s right to quality, affordable health care.

✅ Ensure paid sick leave and affordable child care.

✅ End the scourge of domestic violence or sexual assault.
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Nancy Pelosi
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President Barack Obama declared a national emergency in 2009 during the swine flu outbreak. President George W. Bush declared a national emergency the day after the 9/11 attacks.

Those were national emergencies.
Donald Trump holding federal workers and key parts of the federal government hostage to extort more than $5 billion from Congress to build his border wall is *NOT* a national emergency.
Today's declaration is an abuse of power -- a lawless, desperate attempt to distract people from Trump's failure to deliver on his core campaign promise to get Mexico to pay for his a border wall.
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Nancy Pelosi
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Since he brought up the economy, remember this:

🚫 He and Republicans forced a $1.3 trillion #GOPTaxScam that rewarded Sheldon Adelson with $670,000.000.00.

🚫 He shut down the government costing our economy $11,000,000,000.00.

#SOTU
FACT: the #GOPTaxScam has not come close to creating the jobs Trump promised. If anything, companies have been laying off workers while setting a record $1 trillion in stock buybacks. No one is fooled here. #SOTU
When he says that the economy is 'booming', remember that Trump and Republicans sold out Medicare, Medicaid and middle class families to wealthy people & corporations by giving them $1.3 trillion in un-paid for tax cuts. #SOTU
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ProPublica
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1/ Yesterday, we published a story on how Congress may be about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing for all.

In response, folks around the world took the opportunity to brag about how much easier they have it.
👇 👇 👇
2/ Take Japan for example, where most employees don’t even have to file a tax return.

So, here are all the other places it’s likely cheaper (and easier) to file your taxes:
3/ (By the way, in the US you have @TurboTax @Intuit @HRBlock + others to thank for the legislation. They spent a combined $6.6 million last year lobbying on the issue.)

(Also, if you don’t see your country on this list, by all means: pile on.)
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Mic Farris
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THREAD: 2020 is an important election cycle, possibly the most important of our time. However, in context, we may only a third of the way through the realignment of American politics. The following is a play in five acts for this realignment. 1/
Before we start, this is a hypothesis, which, as I know, can explode into many pieces as reality plays out. I am a student, though not a scholar, of American history, love my country, and am enamored with her politics. 2/
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Chad Bolt
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This is a terrible idea. The estate tax is one of the most important measures we have to battle raging wealth inequality. We should expand it by raising the rate and applying it to more of the estate's value -- not continue taking a machete to it as Republicans have done. 1/
Unless you stand to inherit over $11 million, you won't need to pay the estate tax. When @SenJohnThune and @senatemajldr and their Republican accomplices support legislation to repeal it, the people they'll benefit are people inheriting more than $11. Million. Dollars. 2/
We should LOWER the threshold of estate's value subject to it. (It was $1M in 2002.) And we should RAISE the rate (it was 50% that year, it's now 40%). This would go further to cut into the corrosive concentration of wealth that fuels inequality and make our tax code fairer. 3/
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Chad Bolt
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Whoa! House Republicans dropped a secret tax bill overnight because they just #cantstopwontstop trying to blow up the deficit with tax cuts for their friends and the already-rich. There's a lot going on here but let's talk about some of it. 1/
First: what are Repubs really up to here? Remember, in their rush to jam the #GOPTaxScam through Congress they made a few big messes. Some were accidents and some were actual slights. But now industry lobbyists want them fixed and Rs want to make it happen. 2/
So they're making these "fixes" part of a bigger tax package, that includes other provisions they think sound agreeable on the surface -- but of course, there's more to the story, and they're mostly geared toward the rich too. 3/
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diane straub
@didikins4life
#GOPTaxScam Puts Medicare and Medicaid on the Chopping Block to Give a Tax Break to the One Percent 1
#RESIST #ProtectOurCare
Americans across the country can’t be fooled: the debt-exploding GOP tax scam puts Medicare and Medicaid on the chopping block and ultimately raises taxes on 86 million middle class American families: 2 #GOPTaxScam #Medicaid #Medicare #ProtectOurCare
#GOPTaxScam Raises Taxes on 86 Million Middle Class Families – the GOP tax scam’s meager, temporary benefits for the middle class evaporate in a few years, and the scam ultimately raises taxes on 86 million middle class families. 3 #GOPlies #VoteThemOut
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Sunjeev Bery
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Yesterday, I spoke on the phone with a top elected official in Congress.

We talked strategy for stopping the #GOPTaxScam bill. This bill is moving fast. Here is what the person said. 1/x

#NotOnePenny #TrumpTaxScam
(I repped for @MoveOn. Was joined on the call with leaders from allied orgs. Here's what the elected official shared (with their permission)): 2/x
Now that the House has passed their #taxscam bill, we have no time to lose.

Senate is next, but we need to go all out on both Senate and House, can't pick one first. No time. 3/x
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