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DSteiger

@Steigs

Twitter acct for Doug Steiger, fmr Counselor to HHS Sec, fmr Senate Cmte aide and Moynihan alum, AU adjunct lecturer, longtime fan of U2 and DC United

 Silver Spring, MD
Joined December 2007
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Not just expected: the policy is *designed* to strangle people to death in red tape.
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Alex Wayne (@aawayne) profile pictureAlex Wayne@aawayneNov 10
NEWS: Nebraska rushed to be the first state to require adults in Medicaid to prove they're working, under Trump's budget law. The result: A cancer patient lost his insurance, while several consultants are making lots of money. By @rachanadpradhan npr.org/2026/11/09/nx-s1-603…
Nebraska rushed Medicaid work rules. Then a cancer patient was told he'd lost coverage

Nebraska rushed Medicaid work rules. Then a cancer patient was told he'd lost coverage

Health clinics and organizations advocating for poor and working-class Nebraskans say the rollout of Medicaid work requirements has been rife with problems.

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Including a lot of kids from free school lunches...
Spotlight on Poverty (@povertynews) profile pictureSpotlight on Poverty@povertynewsNov 10
USDA policy shift would cut millions off SNAP—from @politico: politico.com/news/2026/11/09…
USDA policy shift would cut millions of people off food aid program

USDA policy shift would cut millions of people off food aid program

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Josh Marshall
@joshtpmNov 8
pretty wild that Rector manages to be a good guy in the current heritage cesspit
Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) profile pictureDaniel Lippman@dlippmanNov 7
SCOOP: Heritage has ousted one of its top scholars, Robert Rector, the intellectual architect of welfare reform who had challenged Heritage head Kevin Roberts last yr for his defense of Tucker Carlson. He had been w/ Heritage since 1984. (W/ @joshgerstein) politico.com/news/2026/11/07…
Top welfare reform scholar ousted from Heritage

Top welfare reform scholar ousted from Heritage

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Steve Gorman@SGSFOXNov 7
Pour one out for one of the greats. Rest easy, sir. nytimes.com/2026/11/07/arts/…
Richard Lloyd, Torrential Guitarist of Television, Has Died

Richard Lloyd, Torrential Guitarist of Television, Has Died

With Tom Verlaine, he led the dual-guitar attack in a band that brought fiery yet sophisticated art rock to the New York City punk scene of the 1970s. He was 75.

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Ry Rivard@ryrivardNov 6
When Rockefeller decided to retire, we talked about how he ended up in West Virginia — a journey that included somnolence at Harvard, stints with Peace Corps and State, and eventually season tickets to watch football with a Charleston, WV native. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Rockefeller in WV

Rockefeller in WV

‘THIS GUY HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DO SOME GOOD’ ROCKEFELLER, CHARLESTON JOURNALIST LOOK BACK ON FORMATIVE YEARS THAT DROVE A POLITICAL CAREER Publication: CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL Published: Monday,...

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You are truly unserious if you think Dems are going to oust Hakeem Jeffries from Speaker. Why? 1/ No fcking way the Congressional Black Caucus lets anyone topple the first Black SOH. 2/ He's Pelosi's protegé, relatively young, and barely had a chance to really lead the caucus.
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1) no one is running against Schumer 2) the Senate leadership vote is on a secret ballot 3) Democrats just won a landslide with Schumer setting Senate strategy and his allies providing support to winning campaigns. 4) If no one runs against him, there won’t be a vote count. 1/2
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Bobby Kogan@BBKoganNov 5
To dig in here: Rs convinced themselves it was okay bcuz §312 of CBA. But when it was time to debate in front of the parls, Rs refused to (bcuz they knew she’d say no). So instead they just made up the rules on the floor. If you can make up rules as you go, you can do anything.
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Zach Moller@econwonkNov 4
Paid leave is the first thing he name checks for a new policy agenda....
Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) profile pictureAndrew Solender
@AndrewSolenderNov 4
NEW: Rep. Ritchie Neal, ranking member of the powerful, tax-focused House Ways & Means Committee, officially announces in a letter to colleagues that he is running for W&M chair
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Sasha Hupka@SashaHupkaOct 30
NEW: In 2024, a remote, cash-strapped county blamed malfunctioning ballot printers for a disastrous election. But that's not what actually happened. @VotebeatUS and @ArizCIR teamed up to tell the real story of the election fiasco — and how it disenfranchised voters.
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A haunted house, but it's just a cost-sharing requirement for SNAP benefit costs that escalates if a state's SNAP payment error rate crosses certain thresholds that are 2 percentage points apart — when a typical 95% confidence interval spans 4.4 percentage points.
Graphic showing the point estimate of each state's FY2023 SNAP payment error rate with the 95% confidence interval.

ALT Graphic showing the point estimate of each state's FY2023 SNAP payment error rate with the 95% confidence interval.

The Hamilton Project (@hamiltonproj) profile pictureThe Hamilton Project@hamiltonprojSep 3
Beginning Oct. 2027, states will be required to pay a portion of SNAP benefits depending on their SNAP payment error rate. States could face huge budgetary swings based solely on luck of the draw: hamiltonproject.org/publicat…
The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance - The Hamilton Project

The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance - The Hamilton Project

Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach find that the SNAP cost shift to states will fluctuate unpredictably and considerably from year to year solely based on random chance.

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At home infant care, you say, @JoshuaTMcCabe and @ehaspel?
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During the initial TANF reauthorization in '02, we had a Senate Finance bill TANF bill that included $30 million for a demo, because of Baucus (MT) and Snowe (ME). Alas, the W administration and Heritage types hated both the overall bill and At Home Infant Care.
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So while it got out of committee, the bill never got a floor vote between Administration opposition and disappointment on the left that the child care funding increase wasn't bigger and the TANF discussion went in a different direction in '03
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Bobby Kogan@BBKoganOct 29
New from me: domestic discretionary funding has fallen dramatically in the last few years, far more than most ppl have internalized. These cuts are ~2/3 the size of the Medicaid cuts enacted in the Big Beautiful Bill. As a % of GDP, it's at the lowest level since Eisenhower. 🧵
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SAY HIS NAME! @JasonLevien this is your legacy! 👏
Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) profile pictureSteven Goff@SoccerInsiderOct 29
For record-tying seventh straight year, D.C. United fails to qualify for MLS playoffs — a humiliating absurdity in a playoff-happy league. DCU hasn’t won a playoff game in 11 years. Players, coaches, GMs and technical directors have come and gone. One constant.
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Trump fired him. The ‘DEI Watchlist’ shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.

Trump fired him. The ‘DEI Watchlist’ shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.

Efforts to purge the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs have taken a major toll on Black workers who now struggle to find comparable jobs.

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It was a tense and somber Medicaid directors conference last week in Maryland... The focus was on HR 1 and its impacts; loss of coverage was a persistent concern for attendees. Several Trump officials were present. Some of their comments are in my recap: fiercehealthcare.com/payers/…
‘This is not a normal build’: States race to implement H.R. 1 Medicaid changes

‘This is not a normal build’: States race to implement H.R. 1 Medicaid changes

The impact of H.R. 1 was front and center at the Medicaid directors' conference, NAMD, last week in Maryland.  | The conference, hosted by the National Association of Medicaid Directors, gathered...

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Bobby Kogan@BBKoganOct 23
THE LEGACY OF THE TRUMP TAX CUTS: RUNNING RECESSION-LEVEL PRIMARY DEFICITS WHEN THE ECONOMY'S VERY MUCH NOT IN A RECESSION.
Brendan Duke 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Brendan_Duke) profile pictureBrendan Duke 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@Brendan_DukeOct 23
The legacy of the Trump tax cuts: running recession-level primary deficits when the economy's very much not in a recession.
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Bobby Kogan@BBKoganOct 23
We used to have a federal survey that measured hunger in America, but the Trump administration stopped conducting the survey right after the bill that cut food assistance was passed.
Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) profile pictureBobby Kogan@BBKoganOct 23
We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since the GOP passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.
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