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Cory Booker Profile picture
@CoryBooker
Jun 30 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Some lesser-known parts of the Republican budget bill that you need to know about.
There's a good chance they'll affect you or your family.
If this bill passes…🧵⬇️
– Your utility bills are going up—it takes energy sources offline and will strain the grid.
– Your food costs are going up—it slashes food assistance and will drive up prices.
– Your student loan payments are going up—it guts programs that have helped to ease the burden.
All to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
It's wrong. It's immoral. Every Democrat is voting against it.

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Jun 9
The Republican budget bill is among the most unpopular pieces of major legislation in recent political history.

Voters across the spectrum oppose it—and for good reason. It:

– Cuts taxes for billionaires
– Cuts healthcare for regular people

@TaxWarRoom has the latest polling⬇️
– 63% of independents oppose the bill
– 67% of voters making under $100k oppose it
– 68% oppose the bill's tax breaks for the wealthy
– 69% oppose the cuts to food assistance
– 70% oppose the cuts to Medicaid
This is an astonishing rejection of Trump and congressional Republicans' signature legislative proposal.

Billionaires want it passed. Everyone else doesn’t.

And it's obvious why. It would represent one of the largest transfers of wealth in the history of the United States.
Read 7 tweets
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May 29
Elon Musk fading into the background doesn’t erase his shameful record or absolve him of accountability.

He failed to save money, dismantled vital programs, caused immeasurable pain to countless people, and engaged in the corruption he said he'd fight.

A recap of his tenure🧵
First, he said that his team of “super high-IQ, small-government revolutionaries” would save the government money. It was going to be $2 trillion in savings. Then $1 trillion in savings. 

Then…government spending went up by billions under Trump and Musk. Image
He said he would create a "Wall of Receipts" for maximum transparency to document the savings he claimed to have found. 

The "Wall" was full of errors, distortions, omissions, and sloppy accounting. It was a useless document that ended up being hacked. Image
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Read 6 tweets
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May 21
A few weeks ago, I sat on the Capitol steps from dawn to dusk to sound the alarm about the coming Republican tax bill—and how it would hurt kids, seniors, and middle-class Americans who are just trying to get by.

The bill is now here. And it's worse than many expected ⬇️
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the bill would strip health insurance from at least 13.7 million Americans. Image
The Joint Committee on Taxation released its estimate for how much it will cost.

$3.72 trillion

Exploding the budget deficit while handing most of the tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans who don't need them—it's fiscally and morally indefensible.Image
Read 5 tweets
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Apr 16
Trump is tanking the economy—and Americans are taking note.

– 60% disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation
– 75% say Trump’s tariffs will raise prices in the near term
– Only 21% say his economic policies are helping.

A stunning bipartisan rejection.

4 charts with more 🧵
Americans' expectations for inflation over the next 12 months have surged to the highest level in four decades.

Americans from across the political spectrum recognize that groceries, housing, and healthcare are going to get more expensive under Trump. Image
Uncertainty about the economy is also surging.

When the future feels uncertain, businesses delay investments, consumers pull back on spending, small businesses struggle to stay afloat, and the overall economy suffers. Image
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Mar 31
Every day I am shocked by the actions that Donald Trump and Elon Musk have taken. I know that their recklessness is causing real and harmful damage to our nation, but you don’t just have to take me at my word.

You can see just a few of the many examples for yourself 🧵
Instead of lowering prices, the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans are preparing to gut services like Medicaid and Social Security to pay for a tax cut for billionaires. Image
Trump and Musk have decided to eliminate programs and departments indiscriminately, including firing thousands of veterans. Image
Read 5 tweets
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Mar 28
The disclosure of highly classified information in a group chat wasn’t just some one-off security failure.

It was a window into how this Administration operates: with incompetence, recklessness, contempt for the truth, & a reflexive impulse to cover things up.

I'll explain🧵
Incompetence

Trump likes to talk about hiring based on merit. He issued an Executive Order last week stating it's "the policy of the Federal Government that hiring in foreign policy positions, like hiring in all other parts of the Government, shall be based solely on merit."
His entire presidency, however, has been premised on the rejection of expertise, and the embrace of loyalty over competence.

The latest result? A breathtaking security breach that endangered American service members and humiliated the United States on the world stage.
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