Your health insurance premium just shot up.
Your groceries cost more than ever.
Your electric bill too.
And what is your President's focus today? Lobbying Congress... to keep suppressing the Epstein files.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DECLINED to revisit its landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage in the United States.
For years, Democrats have fought to make marriage equality the law of the land. Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed our vision of progress for all Americans.
We’re 10 months into a Trump presidency. The cost of groceries is up, the cost of utilities is up, the cost of rent is up, the cost of health care is up.
Democrats are fighting to lower the cost of living. Republicans would rather just shut down the government.
Republicans in Congress extended tax breaks for billionaire corporations, but they refused to extend tax credits to lower health costs for working people.
While Trump and Republicans inflict pain on people, Democrats’ most important job is to fight back.
This deal is a mistake.
After the longest shutdown in history, we are no closer to relief for the millions of Americans facing hikes to their health care bills that they can’t afford.
This is a deeply disappointing result. Democrats cannot let the Trump Administration steamroll Congress into cutting taxes for billionaires at the expense of working people.
The average monthly SNAP benefit is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit is up to $550 a person/mo.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
Working people want leaders whose word means something.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
This “deal” dramatically hikes healthcare premiums and only exacerbates the affordability crisis.
It should be rejected, as should any politics willing to compromise on the basic needs of working people.
The top 1% steal $163,000,000,000 per year from the government by evading taxes.
If you're pretending that the people being forced to rely on social safety nets are doing something wrong, but the people actually stealing from you aren't, then you're part of the problem.
Defunding food banks is a new level of cruel.
The Trump admin cut $500 million in food bank deliveries. These are the very food banks families are being forced to rely on with SNAP funding running out on Nov 1.
96 million pounds of food wasted is heartless.
Donald Trump is manufacturing a hunger crisis.
SNAP benefits are about to run out for 42 million Americans.
And Donald Trump has ordered the USDA to NOT USE about $6 billion in emergency reserves to keep SNAP funded.
No explanation. Just cruelty.
Donald Trump is picking politics over the lives of hungry kids.
“What did people do before SNAP?”
They died.
Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.
They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore
The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others
This makes me sick.
Republicans in DC are manufacturing a crisis. They’re choosing not to send out SNAP benefits in a cynical attempt to gain political leverage.
This is truly Washington at its worst.