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Not just expected: the policy is *designed* to strangle people to death in red tape.
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…
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pretty wild that Rector manages to be a good guy in the current heritage cesspit
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…
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Pour one out for one of the greats.
Rest easy, sir.
nytimes.com/2026/11/07/arts/…
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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…
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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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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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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.
ALT Graphic showing the point estimate of each state's FY2023 SNAP payment error rate with the 95% confidence interval.
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…
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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! 👏
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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/…
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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.
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“.. we didn’t have the fiscal space to renew the tax cuts,” Griffin said .., noting that the US debt has eclipsed $40 trillion. Republicans “have their hands dirty over the tax cuts the last two years than with spending increases.”
@business
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I am once again asking you to remember that Trump has six times (6!) called for eliminating LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, calling it "unnecessary" and promising lower energy costs instead. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
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Tough break when the one legislative achievement your party’s unified government got was making health care worse.
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there are already SEVERAL laws that award whistleblowers a percentage of what's recovered...whistleblowers.org/faq/whist…
Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "All Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"
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Trump never specified who it was going to be a Golden Age for
Trump ran on tax cuts. But his economic policies have driven up taxes and costs for all but the wealthiest 1% of Americans, a think tank reports. usatoday.com/story/money/per…
