A judge stopped the Administration from suspending #SNAP mid-shutdown. 42 million Americans rely on these benefits, and they’re now waiting for clarity from @USDA and the President. Leadership means feeding your people, not using them as leverage.
With 2026 ACA plans officially live, we can now see the impact of Congress' failure to extend enhanced premium tax credits. A 64 YO couple in Morgantown with household income of $85k will see their premiums for the same plan increase by over $4,000 *per month*
At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
What’s insane is that 44% American workers are paid less than a living wage by their employers, forcing them onto social safety nets like SNAP.
SNAP subsidizes employers who pay poverty wages.
Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a huge DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://t.co/5F4cZeDbvN
Researchers from MD Anderson just dropped a bombshell
mRNA COVID vaccines appear to boost cancer immunotherapy survival rates.
Patients who received mRNA COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting checkpoint inhibitor therapy were 2x as likely to be alive after 3 years compared to unvaccinated patients.
To be clear — although they aren’t officially saying why he is stepping down… Admiral Holsey had reportedly “raised concerns” about Trump/Hegseth blowing up boats in international waters they claimed had drugs on them
One of the consequences of the political & public health failure on COVlD continues to be that people who are immunocompromised have no other recourse than to isolate & it's often ineffective.
We need public funding for PPE, transmission surveillance, policy, & leaders who 😷
Last week, news stories reported that @SecKennedy had convened an “aluminum working group.” Among the “scientists” there are antivax scientists about whom I’ve been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again. https://t.co/qiCVQnBJsF