Becky Levin

Yogi, foodie, biker, proud parent, pessimistic optimist.

[Becky Levin @blevin2018]

@AHS_Warranty You all are thieves. I dumped your worthless policy and I certainly hope everyone reading this considers doing the same or never signing up.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

Nationally, unemployment remained steady, real wages declined year-over-year in April, food insecurity remained high & grocery costs are rising.
Yet 253,000 fewer kids are receiving SNAP in Texas.
205,000 kids in Arizona.
79,000 kids in Louisiana.
49,000 kids in Massachusetts.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.

I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.

Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.

That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

[Becky Levin @blevin2018]

@Katie_Bergh Heartbreaking and cruel

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

President Trump signed the deepest SNAP cuts in history into law last July. Now, people are losing food assistance at the fastest rate in almost 30 years because of harmful policy changes, not because they don't need help affording groceries.

And she calls that "good news."

[Rep. Nikki Budzinski @RepNikkiB]

Here's my message to REI: get back to the bargaining table.

I just led a letter with my @Labor_Caucus colleagues to demand they put a stop to union busting tactics and negotiate in good faith, as required by federal law.

REI workers deserve nothing less.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

The farm bill scheduled for a House floor vote this week does nothing to address this unfolding crisis — and could make it worse by providing sweeping authority for states to outsource core SNAP eligibility functions to private companies with minimal oversight.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

After waiting around all night for Republicans to make a deal—with themselves—on a procedural rule for the week, Democrats showed up to the Rules Committee for an 8am meeting.

Unsurprisingly, when we showed up, we were told there is still no deal.

Their chaos is only matched by their incompetence.

Here is the statement I would have made if we had gaveled in on time:

“Madam Chair, the way this place is being run by your so-called leadership is beyond incompetent. This is no way to run a banana stand, let alone the Congress of the United States of America.

“And I mean this with no disrespect to you or your staff, but the way this majority is behaving is embarrassing for the institution and it is bad for the country. You guys couldn’t organize a two-car funeral! It’s pathetic.

“You have razor thin majority. You’ve been in total control for 16 months now. And you still can’t get it right.

“The alternative to this dysfunction is that you actually work with us on this side of the aisle to move forward legislation in a bipartisan way. You could do that, but you have not.

“You are advancing legislation that may be good for your donors—but this is lousy for our constituents. And it’s lousy for America.

“So here we are. The dysfunction continues. I have an honest question, what changed between midnight—when you sent us home—and 6am today when you told us we were coming in?

“What the hell did you figure out at 3am that you couldn’t figure out with a zoom call over the weekend? I’m happy to yield to the Chairwoman if you’ll tell me what changed overnight so we can at least get some kind of guarantee that this is not another exercise in futility.

“You continue to fight with yourselves and find yourselves in the same mess over and over and over again when your bad bills inevitably implode at the last minute because you didn’t do your homework.

“So madam chair, I am done dignifying this exercise as if everything is normal. It is not normal.

“You clearly didn’t do your homework and the American people are paying the price.”

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

H.R. 1 passed 8 months ago & we still haven't seen Republicans grapple with the risk that states might withdraw from SNAP altogether because of the massive costs the new law imposes on states & localities.

State & local officials are taking this seriously. Why isn't Congress?

[Rep. Salud Carbajal @RepCarbajal]

In this year’s farm bill, Republicans:

❌ refused to address Trump’s tariffs
❌ refused to reverse their SNAP cuts
❌ refused to provide emergency assistance to farmers on the brink of losing their farms

Their farm bill doesn’t meet the moment.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

As the House Agriculture Committee debates amendments to reverse H.R. 1's SNAP cuts — the deepest cuts to food assistance in history — here's a reminder of what those cuts will do:

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

If Republican members of the House Agriculture Committee wanted to support SNAP participants’ ability to purchase dairy products, they probably should not have voted for the deepest cut to SNAP in history last summer.

[Becky Levin @blevin2018]

@bresreports My favorite is the city and CMs claiming residents are responsible for clearing alleys. Insane. The plows are dumping snow in alleys and blocking them, and the ice needs professions equipment to break up. Total fail

[Becky Levin @blevin2018]

@CMWendellFelder We are struggling with snowed in streets, icy sidewalks and blocked alleys. Please update us on trash pick up and needed snow removal.

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

The tragedy and chaos the country is witnessing in Minneapolis is shocking. The killing yesterday of Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen, by ICE agents should raise serious questions within the administration about the adequacy of immigration-enforcement training and the instructions officers are given on carrying out their mission. Lawfully carrying a firearm does not justify federal agents killing an American—especially, as video footage appears to show, after the victim had been disarmed.

A comprehensive, independent investigation of the shooting must be conducted in order to rebuild trust and Congressional committees need to hold hearings and do their oversight work. ICE agents do not have carte blanche in carrying out their duties.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Thune could easily pass the rest of the budget and have a stand alone debate and vote on the DHS budget. It's up to him if he wants to shut down multiple agencies.

[Becky Levin @blevin2018]

@reesejgorman What’s the problem? Members change flights all the time. They could change the rules to vote remotely. They have options. Stop spinning this as - we are out of time. 5 days is significant time to reschedule. They have a responsibility to govern. Return from non-essential recess

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

Congress created the Department of Education to ensure our nation has a coordinated, comprehensive approach to education that meets our children where they are and helps them achieve greatness. The Department’s mission is to centralize subject-matter experts who help states, schools, colleges, and parents support student success. But it is our nation’s schools, colleges, and school boards that determine how our nation’s students are educated due to the return to local control that Congress baked into federal K-12 education law and the longstanding independence of our nation’s colleges.

The administration’s decision to transfer these congressionally mandated responsibilities and programs to other agencies that lack the necessary policy expertise may have lasting negative impacts on our young people. And simply moving the administration of these programs to other agencies will not return control of education to the states. I strongly oppose the administration’s effort to circumvent the law by dumping critical programs onto other agencies simply because there are not sufficient votes in Congress to eliminate the Department.
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[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

If they fought for health care half as hard as they do to keep food from hungry families, this whole mess would be solved by now.