Jennifer Colamonico

Health policy wonk, researcher, generally opinionated career mama. Opinions here are mine alone.

[Jennifer Colamonico @jencolamonico]

@TimmyFacciola_ Are you serious with “employee”? That is false. And $35k in consulting fees is not exactly fat cat levels. Your insinuations are discrediting whatever reporting you think this is.

[Jennifer Colamonico @jencolamonico]

@TimmyFacciola_ The media market up here is so messed up. Low priority for city media, virtually no media in Putnam. Mostly patchwork of local papers more focused on ad revenue over investigations. Did you know they don’t even have candidate debates up here?

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://t.co/NZuFGFdFhy

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Cait Conley @CaitforNewYork]

The health of our communities is what we are fighting for. So grateful to join my friend Dr. Leo Meehan for a workout and an important conversation about our healthcare system, its challenges, and the way ahead.

Reps and Real Talk #2!

[Bob Herman @bobjherman]

The Trump administration wants low-income people who have cancer, kidney failure, and other complex conditions to prove they can't work in order to keep their Medicaid coverage. https://t.co/xLi06aZABv

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Jennifer Colamonico @jencolamonico]

@TimmyFacciola_ We are pearl clutching over a national security expert earning a living from consulting on her expertise. Cait’s expertise in this area - which is clearly valuable - will be a huge asset to the next Congress.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

I’m actually speechless…

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit.

Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

[Jason Beeferman @JasonBeeferman]

NEW: @lawler4ny ran a local party and two advocacy organizations which sent hundreds of thousands of $ to his own political consulting and lobbying firm before he was elected. That's in addition to the $500k his political campaigns have paid the firm.

He also spoke and presented awards at a political fundraiser last year for the Rockland GOP, of which he is the chairman. A business and labor group donated to the county party in connection to the fundraiser. If Lawler solicited those contributions, that would appear to violate FEC rules. But his campaign said he never asked for party money at the event. And he called the entire story a "hatchet job" https://t.co/KX4Pj9Ymo5

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

Even as gas prices cause real pain for consumers and dominate the news, our new poll finds health care tied with gas as the public's top economic worries. Health care affordability is a big issue for voters this year.

[Maya Goldman @mayagoldman_]

👀 Rural hospitals have been concerned about this for years: https://t.co/NJ96Z7zPOP

[Jason Beeferman @JasonBeeferman]

New: @CaitforNewYork has been endorsed by the Putnam County Democratic Committee

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

He’s literally just stealing from us in broad daylight. This level of corruption is so staggering it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

[Jennifer Colamonico @jencolamonico]

@TimmyFacciola_ Definitely wondered that too

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Inflation was coming down in the United States—and then Trump’s tariffs happened.

[Jennifer Colamonico @jencolamonico]

@DavidSandman1 @DavidWeprin @KhaleelAnderson @ScottBendettNY @SamBergerNY @blankenbush Hi David! Do you have the ability to cut this by county? Looking for some data on Putnam. Thanks!

[Rep. George Latimer @RepGLatimer]

On this Tax Day, Americans are filing their taxes in hopes of getting a return that will absorb the rising cost of living. Despite promises of a significant increase in their annual refunds from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, Americans are once again being let down. Hard working Americans continue to be faced with higher prices for everyday goods and forced to pinch pennies based on bad policy decisions by Trump and his allies.