Gaby Fowler

Healthcare policy. Views are my own.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

For 6 hours each spring, Washington DC has the perfect weather: 75 degrees, there’s a slight breeze, lil bit of cloud cover, and the mosquitos haven’t popped yet. 2pm - 8pm today was that 6 hours. See ya next year.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Say what you will, this feels like the best thing to happen in DC since 2008. A couple guys w/o a political agenda just chit chatting about what goes on behind the curtain, on a platform that’s going to engage a whole new demographic of people in politics. 12/10.

[TMZ @TMZ]

TMZ is officially in D.C. — and our team is quickly learning exactly what it's like to be a Senator. 💼🤔

[2026 @DCisme202]

They studied the Pay Equity Fund. Every $1 returns $1.23. Annual cost $54M, annual benefits $67M. Lower turnover, more slots, better access for families. Council cited this when restoring funding last year. Bowser wants to cut program that pays for itself

Genuinely I ask why??

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

It sustains a workforce that allows us to increase supply & does so w tuition caps for qualification that are set based on 2022 market rates to control cost. Pull $1M from a Center’s budget (what this budget does) and you either lose staff & close classrooms, or increase tuition.

[Naomi’s padre @JoshuaLopez202]

DC is the most EXPENSIVE jurisdiction in the region when it comes to early childcare. Solving that should be the priority. Childcare should be affordable and accessible for every DC family who needs it. The “Pay Equity Fund” does absolutely nothing to address this issue.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Daycare board treasurer here! PEF does up supply & lower cost because non profit daycares can compete on salary (mathematica study showed this). W/o PEF you can make more at Starbucks. We will lose teachers or have to increase tuition to keep them. Both are bad for families.

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

"Most families want more opportunities, more spots, and they want it to be less expensive. We don’t think that about the Pay Equity Fund. It’s not an affordability fund, it’s an income support fund. It’s laudable but it does not respond to what people are saying," she says.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Asking for the single bar of service I get from my middle-of-a-metro-center living room

[ʀ¡ᴄᴋʏ @guylikericky]

What form of communication are the astronauts using, aren't they 400,000 km from earth and we are getting feedback in real time

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

@RiniSampath Can you share your position on early childhood funding? Board Chair for a center in Ward 3 and the reductions/elimination in pay equity in the mayors budget proposal will be devestating to our teachers.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Haven’t dived deeply into her platform yet but her intro video mentions snow response and as a single issue voter now, I am in

[Rini Sampath @RiniSampath]

I’m asking for your support, even $5 will help us keep going! https://t.co/O5qOhYoybh 🙏🏾

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

@BarredinDC But the right answer is grand dutchess!

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Doing my part to defy tyranny

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

I recognize this is kind of naive bc it’s also a very transactional city but as someone who has, relatively speaking, nothing to offer anyone here, I like to think my friends *like me for me*

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

My hypothesis after 18 mos of living here is that this is bc most people are hyper transient (coming&going) and so everyone is always trying to build community. DC is the first time as an adult it has felt EASY to make friends.

[Ryan Musser @musserryan]

A lot of what he lists are things I experience in DC:
-DC runs on happy hours
-there’s not many diners but plenty of coffee shops with regulars
-many SOTU, debate, Super Bowl, World Cup watch parties
-many cookouts/picnics in Anacostia, Rock Creek, Lincoln, Malcom X Park

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

#proofofplows @capitalweather

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

I, respectfully, refuse.

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Models are still a muddled mess with respect to Sunday-Monday snow potential. We're working to make sense of them.

These maps by @BenNoll are reasonable assessments of the current potential.

We will have a detailed DC area briefing coming midday to midafternoon.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Can confirm

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

Nerd Gummy Clusters target audience is 30 year old women actually

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

Here's a list of DC area businesses that are closing today or donating proceeds to immigration organizations for today's national strike against ICE:

https://t.co/zFqStQP39v

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Some irony in this on the same day that CMS announced 10 contractors voluntarily agreed to "help" states with implementing work requirements, including 🥁🥁🥁🥁 Deloitte.

[James Brandt @j_e_brandt]

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

Maybe it's the New Englander in me but everyone is like "lol DC is bad at snow bc DC doesn't get snow". It literally does get snow. Every year. There are streets that still haven't been plowed and it hasn't snowed SINCE SUNDAY. Make it make sense.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

An advertising idea for @dczerowaste as I throw away my kid's leftover chemically cheese crackers: are there foods that you see composted that take forever to break down? Imagining the McDs nugget that lasts 6 months, unchanged. I'd love to know so I subconsciously avoid.

[Gaby Fowler @gabycfowler]

@bdomenech @MayorBowser As the person who probably holds the title for most tickets generated by this cam, it doesn’t catch ppl racing to Sibley. It catches ppl coasting down the hill & hitting lights right. 25 on Mass is the flow of traffic 8-7 but it’s pretty slow when it’s quiet (aka omw to 7am yoga)