Jessica P Wilmoth

Nashville native, socialist, healthcare is a right, tax accountant and a mom.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

If @MarshaBlackburn really skipped the vote as TMZ is reporting maybe local media could relay that info to Tennesseans since she wants to be our governor?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

They can’t be honest about anything

[Jessica P Wilmoth @JessicaPWilmoth]

@Vandy1Fan @NashSevereWx They were definitely lights snowflakes, but of course didn’t do anything when it hits the ground

[Jessica P Wilmoth @JessicaPWilmoth]

@rigatonimontana @NashSevereWx Just started snowing in Madison

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Notice how nobody in the Trump regime ever asks, “But how will we pay for it?” when it comes to priorities that benefit them?

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Republicans are quietly giving more massive tax cuts to multinational corporations, billionaires, foreign real estate tycoons, and the richest of the rich while fighting tooth and nail every day to block food aid from the poorest of God’s creatures.
https://t.co/6YCNfmZ8eJ

[chad burner @BootleggedChad]

4 days out from my life-changing surgery, @Aetna has denied the appeal for my brain surgery.

to be clear, when i signed up to aetna months ago, the coordinator had confirmed they would cover this surgery. then, a week ago, they said the surgery was too experimental/elective and denied coverage. we appealed. that appeal was just denied today.

now, my neurosurgeon is trying to do a peer-to-peer consult with someone at aetna to explain why i need it so we don’t lose the surgery date on monday morning. aetna is not being responsive.

this is sadistic and a violation of basic trust. please spread this so they can’t ignore it. they may not care if i live or die but people should know just what kind of company they’re dealing with. and please pray they are able to have a peer-to-peer consult with my neurosurgeon and have a change of heart.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

[. @jdpoc]

True, this :

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Every motherfucking thing this gentleman said. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

[Jessica P Wilmoth @JessicaPWilmoth]

@FOXNashville Wonderful! Finally someone good.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

A friend sent me this. Heartbreaking.

[Jessica P Wilmoth @JessicaPWilmoth]

@NashSevereWx That certainly doesn’t seem like it should disqualify you. You guys are the best’

[Jessica P Wilmoth @JessicaPWilmoth]

@NC5 We live in a fascist country.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Several gay dating apps are reportedly threatening that, if the Supreme Court bans gay marriage, they'll reveal all the closeted Republican officials and members of Congress who have accounts on their platforms.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I find it horrible that nobody is still mentioning that Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by a Trump supporter along with their dog Gilbert. He also shot another Representative and his spouse were critically injured. 💙