Ben Grossman-Cohen

Director of Campaigns @oxfamamerica. Brooklyn native visiting the land of creased khaki. Views expressed here are my own.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@mattyglesias Somebody beat you to the punch https://t.co/QT0mHQrwSq

[Alex Shieh @alexkshieh]

Introducing The Antifraud Company (@AntifraudCo) 🧵

We raised over $5M from @AbstractVC, @BrowderCapital & @dunevc to build a private-sector DOGE, where we use AI and investigative journalism to track down those who defraud American taxpayers.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@MattBruenig Real asterisk will be if Italy wins with a roster made up almost entirely of Americans

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@jasonfitz You could set it up so the teams with better records have to win fewer games to win the draft tournament. It would incentivize everyone to try to be at least 7th best.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@BenjySarlin If they did it correctly they could generate more $ with a tourney making easier to shrink the schedule. More healthy good players in the playoffs ideally, killing 2 birds at the same time.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@admcrlsn Glad to see this idea picking up steam but I demand credit: https://t.co/ivse33qXQU

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

If NY can find $3 billion in subsidies for Amazon we can surely find $5 billion to buy the Knicks and turn ownership over to the people of NY. That or just seize them. #seizetheknicks https://t.co/T8HbCpxW5k

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@MikeGrunwald Must be forgetting the 2024 campaign, which was notoriously about who was going to do a better job of making junk food prices higher!

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@jonfavs @lxeagle17 ?

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@BenjySarlin Once watched Herb Williams do this before a Knicks game.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

@JStein_WaPo Good piece. No tax on tips and the other populist stuff is bad policy but really questionable to refer to "populist" things as "giveaways" but R&D and depreciation tax breaks aren't because business lobbies like them? It's all giveaways! @taxjusticewonk https://t.co/ocRtiKgQCL

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Story here https://t.co/v90iJaPLpV

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Does DOGE have a tip line? What if - and hear me out because this is a little complicated - rather than destroying the medicine to stop the spread of AIDS, we give it to people in need?

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Is it going to make Guatemala a more or less livable place to take $700 million out of its economy every year? All to give Elon Musk a bigger tax break.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Very good piece by @helen_dempster @charleyward23 & @SamHuckstep showing how costly new remittances tax would be for poor countries. Dwarfs the financial hit from aid cuts for many countries.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

If you wanted to design a policy to make life harder in countries where many migrants to the US come from, you might start with this terrible idea: https://t.co/ie8bRE85gQ

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

The facts here are mind boggling.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order.
https://t.co/azWqcroR8J

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

We've got god on our side now @nyknicks.

[Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews]

WOW. An American Pope.

https://t.co/2kYNDxPCnH

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Love taking food out of the mouths of hungry children so that we can...send large agribusinesses $50 billion in handouts? https://t.co/3iZ08eBQVy

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

🕑PUNCHBOWL NEWS MIDDAY

A lot of RECONCILIATION NEWS.

- CORPORATE SALT looks to be dropping out of the tax package

- SPECTRUM CBO score came in between $80B and $90B

- IRA savings around $400B. Looking about ending transferability and rolling back tax credits.

- HOUSE AG looking to add more farm bill provisions in reconciliation package, such as crop reference prices and export promotions.

https://t.co/GXbOvE5gTe

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Buried in this story is a line that @marcorubio plans to terminate funding for the @UNFAO which provides the preeminent measure of GLOBAL FOOD PRICES.

The Trump admin strategy to bring down the price of food is to just defund the organization that measures food prices?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to end vaccine funding in developing countries, documents obtained by The New York Times show. Some HIV and TB aid will be kept. https://t.co/pHxzDSckAk

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

Sounds very efficient.

[Tom Hart @Tom_InterAction]

After hearing that some orgs are getting reversal notices of program terminations, some are now getting RECALLS of those reversals.

One organization got a stop work order, then a waiver, then a termination, then a termination reversal, then a note that the reversal was in error.

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

The report says the destruction of USAID is imperiling the ceasefire in Gaza, threatening a catastrophe reminiscent of the haphazard departure from Afghanistan and wasting tens of millions of $ - https://t.co/btVYPuVO0k

[Ben Grossman-Cohen @BenGroCo]

There's a coverup happening in the Trump administration. @John_Hudson & @Reinlwapo scoop that the acting USAID Inspector General is hiding a report showing the devastating consequences of Elon Musk's assault on life-saving humanitarian assistance. Even Congress can't access it.