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Aug 9 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Social Security Administration sent this email out to 90 million seniors.
It claimed their big bill had eliminated the taxes on Social Security benefits.
That’s not true. 🧵👇🏼
1. They did not eliminate taxes on Social Security.
What they did was create a temporary tax deduction for some working seniors.
Jul 31 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
People are incredibly frustrated, and want to know what we’re doing to meet this moment and fix what Trump is breaking.
Here’s my plan. America needs a new governing document – and a new entity to meet this moment.
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America’s unaffordable, people don’t feel safe, the government doesn’t work for those who need it most, and our democracy is under attack.
I put together a framework to fix it.
Jul 29 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
The situation in Gaza is bad and the humanitarian crisis must end.
Five really important things to know that I believe will help end this crisis. 🧵📽️👇🏼
1. It’s a very good thing that the Netanyahu government is surging aid — something I’ve personally pushed the Prime Minister on many times.
Jul 1 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 We just filed more than a dozen amendments to this terrible budget bill.
If the bill passes, millions of Americans will lose healthcare and food assistance.
People will die.
Here are some of our amendments (all should be easy enough to support) 🧵👇🏼
1. Stops Medicaid funding cuts if they would hurt children’s hospitals.
Jun 13 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The news yesterday was insane. So much happened.
But what didn’t really get covered was one of the cruelest bills to ever pass the House.
6 ways that this bill will hurt, if not kill, children and families. 🧵🎥👇🏼
It makes permanent about $10 billion in DOGE cuts.
These are cuts that Elon Musk, Donald Trump and others in the administration, the billionaires, want.
This bill is a legitimate example of how billionaires are running the government. The world's richest people are going after the country’s and the world’s poorest children.
Jun 6 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Trump’s terrible budget is now in the Senate.
5 things you need to know. 🧵📽️👇🏼
1. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (@USCBO) has issued a new report, and it’s not great.
It says 16 million Americans will lose their healthcare and the bill will add $2.4 trillion to the debt.
Jun 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Breaking down 4 reasons why this presidency will likely go down as the most corrupt presidency in American history. 🧵🎥👇🏻
1. The $TRUMP coin.
Think of it like a Swiss bank account. People are depositing money. We don’t know who or what amount, but it’s a ton of money.
He’s making an absurd amount of money.
May 23 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
If you're trying to understand this terrible budget, the best way to do it is look at the math.
Here are the most important numbers 🧵🎥👇🏻
Congressional Republicans want to spend $4 trillion in tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans and the big corporations.
May 20 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Americans will look back at this moment and realize this is when Trump and congressional Republicans fundamentally broke the economy – even though they ran on fixing it.
How they’re making the problems even worse. 🧵📽️👇🏼
The economy has been broken for decades, and it has everything to do with the way power and wealth is concentrated.
That's how the tax system works. That's how the regulatory system works. It's broken.
May 13 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
We reviewed the bill.
We now know the details on how they plan to cut your healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.
7 ways they are cutting healthcare 🧵👇🏼
1) Requires low-income Americans to pay to visit the doctor.
Every time they visit the doctor, they pay money.
May 12 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Congressional Republicans dropped their bill to cut healthcare for millions of Americans.
7 insane things that will happen if this passes🧵👇🏻
1. AT LEAST 13.4 million Americans would lose healthcare.
13.4 million people losing their healthcare is catastrophic. We’re talking about children, families, and seniors.
May 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare.
Congressional Republicans are working to cut nearly $1 trillion in healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the uber-wealthy…but they’re not coming right out to say that.
3 ways they’ll try to spin it.🧵📽️👇🏻
1. “Kick it to the states”
Medicaid covers 70 million Americans. The federal government pays 70% of the cost-- states cover the rest. If you "kick it to the states," they can’t make up the difference.
Translation: they’re cutting healthcare.
Apr 29 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Three words to describe the first 100 days in the Trump administration: chaotic, cruel, corrupt.
10 of the craziest things that happened in the first 100 days. 🧵📽️👇🏻
1. Indiscriminately firing hundreds of thousands of public employees.
First time ever a president has intentionally created unemployment.
Apr 25 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A Project 2025 author recently said its implementation is going “way beyond my wildest dreams.”
Their governing document is now a reality.
8 things Trump’s done 🧵🎥👇🏼
1. They hired the authors of Project 2025.
They’ve been placed in senior roles across the government – from the FCC to Office of Management and Budget.
Apr 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
J.D. Vance said 40% of the people calling into the Social Security system were committing fraud.
That’s a lie and they’re using this misinformation to burn the system to the ground.
3 things you need to know 📽️🧵👇🏼
1) They’ve started by gutting staff and offices. If no one’s there to pick up the phone, then checks don’t go out.
Nearly 10,000 workers in the Social Security Administration have been fired, and they’re in the process of closing field offices across the country.
Apr 10 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In the last 48 hours, congressional Republicans have done so much damage to Americans.
Here are the 5 truly harmful things they passed. 📽️🧵👇🏼
They passed a resolution to bring a $4.5 trillion budget to the floor.
Their budget:
➡️ Adds trillions to the debt
➡️ Cuts nearly $1 trillion in healthcare
➡️ Spends trillions on tax giveaways to Elon Musk and the uber-wealthy
Mar 25 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Obviously Waltz and Hegseth should resign – and never should have been in charge of our national security.
But this is a moment of truth for congressional Republicans. They have to take this seriously. 🧵⬇️
They need to launch a full investigation into what happened and take real actions to prevent the mishandling of classified information – including target lists and weapons packages – from ever happening again.
Feb 24 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The federal government will run out of money on March 14. Republicans, who control Congress and thus decide whether the government shuts down, will bring to the floor tomorrow arguably one of the worst budget bills ever.
Let me break it down for you, and share where I'm at.
Short answer? I’m a hard no on this bill.
Long answer 🧵👇🏻
The focus of their spending bill, which is 🤯, is on the uber-wealthy.
They plan to waste trillions on tax giveaways to Musk and other billionaire donors.
To pay for it, they’re going to add trillions to the deficit and debt AND cut nearly $1T in healthcare for children and seniors.
Absolutely 🥜s
Feb 21 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
You’re about to hear all kinds of things about a bill called the SAVE Act.
Congressional Republicans are using it as a cover to take away voting rights from thousands of Americans—all while claiming it’s about stopping non-citizens from voting.
5 things to know 🧵👇🏻
Non-citizen voting is already illegal. Non-citizens cannot vote, and if they try, they will be deported. They know that.
Feb 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Trump and billionaire donors have set fire to our government.
They’re going after public workers, perpetuated the largest data breach in our history, launching trade wars, halting federal funding…
