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Sep 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEW: over Labor Day weekend the Trump Administration quietly confirmed it will subject the entire United States military to Trump's payroll tax scheme.

They wrote: "military members are not eligible to opt-out of the deferral" which must be repaid in 2021
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As @nogryskoWFED @FederalNewsNet reported, this means the Trump Administration will increase service members paychecks in 2020, with a larger decrease in 2021 (after the election) as military families have their tax withholding doubled.
Trump’s actions are a trick designed to boost his campaign, but their guidance makes it clear that he will really decrease military families’ paychecks in January.

The policy goes into effect five days from now, but they say they still don’t have the details worked out yet. Image
This is a disgraceful way to treat those who keep us safe.

Trump may try to deny @JeffreyGoldberg’s reporting that he called our fallen heroes ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ but his selfish manipulation of service members’ paychecks shows undeniable disrespect for military families.

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Nov 10
I will be voting no on the proposed continuing resolution in the U.S. House.

Republican leaders have turned their backs on Americans facing rising health care costs and refuse to address the affordability crisis their own policies created.

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The Senate’s proposed continuing resolution, which would extend current levels of government funding through January 30 while failing to address the expiration of critical health care tax credits under the Affordable Care Act that help millions of Americans afford health insurance.

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I have said from the beginning that my goal is to end the shutdown in a way that protects Americans from skyrocketing health care costs, and this bill fails that test.

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Mar 28
We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself.

SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then.

Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
(The beeping noise in the background is the legislative bells system letting us know about upcoming votes)

Washington Post: "Long Waits, Waves Of Calls, Website Crashes: Social Security Is Breaking Down"

It's only getting worse.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
These systemic problems are forcing people to make claims online or in person rather than by phone: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

But their website is crashing and they're firing the staff
x.com/jstein_wapo/st…
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Mar 20
Earlier this week my constituent, Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown postdoctoral fellow, was detained outside his Rosslyn home. He remains in detention despite not being accused of a crime, a clear violation of his constitutional rights. He must be released.
beyer.house.gov/news/documents…“Badar Khan Suri’s detention is a clear violation of his constitutional rights, and he must be released. Mr. Suri is here lawfully and is not accused of a crime, yet he was surrounded outside the Northern Virginia home where he lives with his wife – an American citizen – and their children, arrested by masked authorities without explanation, disappeared, imprisoned, denied access to legal counsel, and had his student visa revoked. “The ‘justification’ given for these violations of Mr. Suri’s right to due process is another violation of the Constitution: a blatant attack on the First Amendm...
Mr. Suri is here lawfully and is not accused of a crime, yet he was surrounded outside the Northern Virginia home where he lives with his wife – an American citizen – and their children, arrested by masked authorities without explanation, disappeared, imprisoned, denied access to legal counsel, and had his student visa revoked.
The ‘justification’ given for these violations of Mr. Suri’s right to due process is another violation of the Constitution: a blatant attack on the First Amendment.

Mr. Suri and his family are unfortunately the latest victim of President Trump’s assault on the freedom of speech.

Trump has made no effort to disguise the fact that the arrests of academics like Suri and Mahmoud Khalil is intended to have a chilling effect and discourage the free expression of political views which Trump dislikes.
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Oct 22, 2024
Can we talk about how awful Trump's presidency was? It can be easy to forget. Some might want to forget, but day after day there was a new crisis at the expense of the American people.

We need a reminder, so I’m breaking down some of his worst moments in this thread:
Trump collaborated with Russian efforts to interfere in our elections to help him win, lied about it, refused to endorse American intelligence confirming it, and then fired FBI Director James Comey to kill the investigation.

Just a shameless disregard for American democracy. Image
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As President, he pressured Ukraine to interfere in our elections and then blocked Congress from obtaining key evidence in an attempt to cover it up.

This led to the House’s first impeachment of Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Image
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Apr 3, 2024
A few days ago the largest the Republican Study Committee, which counts 4 in 5 House Republicans as members, issued a new budget that seeks a massive transformation of American society. Their proposed changes are a blueprint for a dystopian hellscape. 1/
beyer.house.gov/news/documents…
What's in this Republican budget? It's here if you want to read it for yourself:


We took a closer look at the policy changes they proposed and legislation they endorsed, and documented what it means with citations, which follow below-- 2/hern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
It would wreck the American health care system for seniors, children, and everyone in between.

They'd turn Medicare into a voucher program, raise Medicare costs and drug costs, gut the ACA and its coverage guarantee for preexisting conditions, and slash Medicaid and CHIP. 3/ Image
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Jun 16, 2023
This was quietly a big week in the U.S. House. Some developments with major implications for the future--

1) The largest group of House Republicans issued its FY24 budget, calling for Social Security cuts for regular people and tax cuts for the wealthy:
2) House Republicans advanced a new tax cut law, aka the "GOP Tax Scam 2.0."

The bill would cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and increase the deficit -- right after Republicans spent months threatening to wreck the economy to extract cuts.
3) Far right MAGA Republicans took control of the House floor, shutting down votes and refusing to end their blockade unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy broke his debt deal with President Biden:
nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/…

4) Which McCarthy promptly agreed to do:
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