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20,000 New Hampshire residents could lose health coverage, and 5 hospitals in the state are at risk of closing thanks to President Trump
and his one big beautiful bill, which Secretary Kennedy is choosing to implement as harshly as possible
This is great by @NateWeixel - more apples to apples comparison like this, please!
From @NateWeixel at @thehill -
"Democrats across battleground districts are holding Republicans’ feet to the fire over the Medicaid cuts in their signature One Big Beautiful Bill law."
thehill.com/homenews/state-w…
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
@SecKennedy using his time and platform to promote racist tropes. This will do nothing to make us healthier.
just a wild thing for anyone to say, let alone a secretary of HHS responsible for global health coordination
Guy on a walk just confused me for a neighbor and asked how my old man was doing. Dad died 5 years ago.
The phase of “taking care of your parents” and being the kid who provides the updates on “the old man” is hard as hell, but boy when it’s over, it’s over.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone pack this much passive voice into one article!
Normally, the team at ASPE is phenomenal at putting out accessible and actionable research.
This one’s tough, of course, b/c they’re trying to defend the indefensible: Medicaid work requirements.
Work is the primary driver of economic stability and mobility for families. Community engagement requirements are most effective when paired with employment and education services and compliance assistance. | Forefront
@GeBaiDC, et al. | @HHSGov
healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377…
they try to point to the $200M that Congress appropriated to implement work requirements across the entire country
but in 2019, one SINGLE state told GAO that the funding they’d need to properly update their IT systems for work requirements would be…
$271M
me, when chaz starts talking about ‘08 margins
Lookit man, I don't blame anyone who says "the country is too polarized for a >D+9 GB" because they either didn't watch/remember '08's fundamentals/data. I sure wasn't (I was 9).
But the President's approval is Bush-level. Economic sentiment is low. There's a deeply unpopular war in the Middle East. We're seeing a large turnout differential in a lot of states in EV and LV modeling.
In 2018, President Trump was only -7. He had a great economy, and a polarizing Supreme Court nomination to excite the base. He ain't got any of that (-44 with Independents currently).
You better start believing in 2008 stories, because you're in one.
Contrast this with the Cheesecake Factory line, and you’ll see what an actual, professional communications operation can do.
It’s funny because 3 of the 5 are true about the current guy, and the first one won’t be true when Trump’s out only because no one’s going to pay for his rambling.
in a normal White House, junior staff just want those little M&M boxes or tiny champagne bottles with the seal on it
SCOOP up now @washingtonsun from @JasJWright and @jstein_sun : The White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
correction: the Medicaid cuts have already hit for immigrant communities, survivors of domestic violence, and the translators who kept our troops alive in Iraq and Afghanistan
“Finally,” I said to myself when I held my first cell phone in high school. “I can get a text message from my health insurance company.”
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
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.
