Warren Gunnels

Incoming Majority Staff Director for soon to be Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman @SenSanders
Blatantly Pro-Union
AKA: Chief of Receipts

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Netanyahu: I need $6 billion more
Trump: Approved

Argentina: We need $20 billion
Trump: Approved

Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion
Trump: Approved

Bezos: Amazon needs $16 billion
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife got cancer. I lost my job. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“Majority Democrats” is a great reminder that corporate-funded dark money Super PACs are legally allowed to name themselves anything they want in an effort to mislead voters.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Medicare for All would save $1 trillion & 114,000 lives each & every year, per Yale.

“Majority Democrats” is funded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Mandel, Michael Bloomberg & Rupert Murdoch’s son.

They should change their name to Billionaires for the Status Quo.

[Majority Democrats @MajorityDems]

Respectfully, Medicare For All proponents aren't being fully transparent about what this poll actually says— not with their supporters, and possibly not with themselves.

Yes, 66% of Americans support Medicare For All according to this KFF poll. But according to that same poll, when people find out that M4A would require raising taxes on the middle class, support drops to 35%. (See the attached charts from the poll.)

And yes, in addition to taxing the wealthy, taxes would have to be raised on the middle class to fund M4A.

And do you know what else the poll showed? 70% of Medicare For All supporters also think they’d have the option to keep their current insurance, which means they actually support a public option. That’s something the newly elected senators in Texas, Iowa, and South Carolina also support — the Democrats who actually delivered this majority.

Here’s the real polling data, instead of just the cherry-picked parts: According to KFF, 79% of Americans want the government to do more to bring down healthcare costs. Which is exactly what Medicare For Americans (or a variation with a public option) would do. It’s a better way to give universal healthcare to Americans who are sick of how insurance companies treat them when they’re sick.

So to recap: 79% is higher than 66%, and it’s way higher than 35%, which is the support M4A has when people find out what it will actually cost them.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Democrats will have a 56-seat majority in the US Senate. We need to use it. Pass Medicare for All.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Follow the money. These false drawbacks were brought to you by:

-Blue Cross Blue Shield
-UnitedHealth
-Cigna
-CVS
-Johnson & Johnson

And the other big drug & insurance companies who fund the Third Way.

Fact: Medicare is far more popular than private health insurance companies.

[Third Way @ThirdWayTweet]

Third Way wanted to understand whether Democratic primary voters had concerns about Medicare for All, even if they supported its goal of universal coverage.

We tested several potential drawbacks of replacing private insurance with a single government plan.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Neera: Meet the “normie Dems”

84% of Democrats want Medicare for All
85% of Democrats want to expand Social Security
89% of Democrats want a $20/hr minimum wage
74% of Democrats want to end military aid to Israel
67% of Democrats want a data center moratorium

No more excuses.

[CENTRIFUGE @ClippingMods]

Neera Tanden: "This is an election for normie Dems. Ok, I'm sorry."

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The Democratic Party needs a new and bold direction. I will not support Chuck Schumer’s reelection as Democratic leader.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

84% of Democrats, 72% of Independents and a record 66% of the American people support Medicare for All, per Kaiser Family Foundation.

It would be political insanity not to do what the overwhelming majority of the American people want.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Oligarchs spent $425 million against California's billionaire wealth tax—outraising supporters 250 to 1 on ads. The result: They got a "whopping" 52%.

I've got bad news for these Oligarchs. Your victory is fleeting. We will pass a federal billionaire wealth tax & end your greed.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

To restore democracy here’s a better idea. Pass what the American people want:

66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
78% want to expand Social Security
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

What does this woman actually think politics is??? You try to improve lives through policy. She’s advocating for just not doing that??? Her personal gripes with the left have turned her into a joke of a person. Many such cases

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

To restore democracy here’s a better idea. Pass what the American people want:

66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
78% want to expand Social Security
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Neera Tanden at The National Press Club:

The next two years should not be an opportunity for every group in DC to dust off their wish list for the last decade.

It's not a time to pressure Congress to fruitlessly spend time, political capital on ideas that we couldn't get done in a Democratic trifecta just a few years ago.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

84% of Democrats, 72% of Independents and a record 66% of the American people support Medicare for All, per Kaiser Family Foundation.

It would be political insanity not to do what the overwhelming majority of the American people want.

[Majority Democrats @MajorityDems]

“The majority of Democrats did not run on Medicare for All. You think Adam Hamilton got elected in KS by saying he wants to kick everyone off their private insurance?”

We should fight for universal healthcare. Not force a vote on a bill voters don't want.

More from @Lis_Smith:

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Poll after poll shows Americans support Medicare for All.

66% - KFF poll
59% - Wall Street Journal poll
60%, including 87% of Democrats - Economist-YouGov poll

It’s time for Democratic leadership to listen to the American people and PASS IT.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

As an immediate first step to Medicare for All, the new Democratic Congress must lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, cover all kids & expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing.

All of this can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate through reconciliation. Let’s do it.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

I’m sorry but no number of takes can persuade me this sounds anything like Joe Manchin

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I agree with my friend @BernieSanders.

Sending Medicare for All to Trump's desk is a win-win for Democrats.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap

No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Sen. Van Hollen: Let me say this: there should be no coronation of the next Democratic leader.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Here’s why Troy Jackson of Maine will be a great senator.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

As the next chair of the Social Security Subcommittee, a top priority will be to expand Social Security benefits by at least $2,400 a year & extend Social Security’s solvency for generations.

How? By scrapping the cap & demanding that the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.