Sr Director of Federal Budget Policy, @amprog/@CAPAction. Before: OMB46, Transition46, @SenateBudget (Murray & Sanders). CBO & OMB’s biggest fan! Personal acct.
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Bobby Kogan retweeted
The whole Cheesecake Factory thing is such a pre-2016 nostalgia trip. I almost forgot this is what political discourse was for years, manufactured rage about beige suits and Obama maybe being too fancy. The whole thing might as well be scored by MGMT.
Bobby Kogan retweeted
✔️Do illegal war → higher energy bills
✔️Cut SNAP → higher grocery prices and hurt farmers and ranchers
✔️Add red tape to benefit programs → strip away your rights, freedoms, and entitlements
A vote for @MannyRutinel is a vote for radicalism in every form…
✔️ Eliminate oil and gas jobs → higher energy bills
✔️ Hurt Colorado farmers and ranchers → higher grocery prices
✔️ Expand government overreach → strip away your rights and freedoms
Vote accordingly.
It cannot be overstated how much red tape Republicans added to the process of getting Medicaid and SNAP.
Millions of people who literally qualify for these programs are being kicked off them, despite qualifying, because of all the red tape Grassley voted to add to them.
Unfortunately Republicans hv been even harder @ work raising costs+ making life harder for Americans They hv already increased gas prices and imposed tariffs and cut Medicaid and SNAP Grassley helped each step along the way
Donald Trump won because people liked the economy in 2019 and Trump promised to make the economy look like that again.
And then he pulled every single lever he could to make things worse for families:
1) higher gas prices
2) tariffs
3) Medicaid and SNAP cuts
Bobby Kogan retweeted
I vaguely recall someone else saying something similar back in 2020
When I think about what’s best for my family and friends on Medicaid, that doesn’t actually make me supportive of the party that enacted the biggest cuts to Medicaid in all of history last year and has promised to make even deeper cuts.
Americans face a simple question: what is best for me and my family, my children, and my aging parents?
Republicans offer common sense solutions and a steady hand at the wheel — while the Democrats are going crazy.
My full conversation with @ShannonBream on @FoxNewsSunday 📺👇
Bobby Kogan retweeted
Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
There are a lot of people who are emotionally committed to the idea that cutting assistance doesn’t actually hurt anyone because it protects them against having to do any soul-searching.
But you can’t take food away from millions of people w/out dramatically increasing suffering
In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected.
cbpp.org/blog/congress-must-…
ALT Graph showing actual monthly SNAP participation from July 2024 to July 2026, with horizontal lines showing actual average participation in fiscal year 2025 (42.1 million), CBO's projected fiscal year 2026 average participation (39.3 million), and projected fiscal year 2026 participation based on actual data (37.6 million).
Bobby Kogan retweeted
Astonishing.
I've been tracking Trump admin corruption and self-dealing for the last 20 months.
Here are 10 stories (!!!) from just the last three weeks.
Literally. Every single one from October.
Bobby Kogan retweeted
The legacy of the Trump tax cuts: running recession-level primary deficits when the economy's very much not in a recession.
When you think about it, it’s kind of fucked up that the president tried to end democracy in America?
Like first he tried to change the election results. When that didn’t work, he tried to overturn the election results.
Pretty bad???
