I know it’s hard, but remember that it wasn’t just Cassidy that voted for this. It was every GOP senator but McConnell. And a lot of needless suffering will result.

As the federal government dismantles the national vaccine infrastructure, the burden to protect and preserve access to lifesaving vaccines increasingly falls on states. Read 6 ways states can, and already are, taking action to fill the void. www.americanprogress.org/article/6-wa...

Imports are way down, exports remain flat, and domestic manufacturing continues to contract. So who's winning? Other than Trump, of course, who got a gold bar and a rolex from the Swiss just recently to help seal their trade deal... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

The ACA's ARPA subsidies: Good enough for me and @emily-gee.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/bett...

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

It's still very uncertain whether Congress will extend enhanced financial help before marketplace open enrollment begins. But Nov. 1 passing by is no excuse for Congress to abandon ePTC. Here's how marketplaces could still implement it in weeks ahead: www.americanprogress.org/article/bett...

New: As open enrollment is about to begin, we estimate ACA insurers are raising premiums by an average of 26%. But if enhanced tax credits expire, 22 million enrollees will see their payments increase by way more than that, more than doubling. www.kff.org/quick-take/a...

"It's, again, just 'concepts of a plan.'" -- @emily-gee.bsky.social, of @americanprogress.bsky.social Action Fund, after CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, said he believes President Trump has a plan to replace the #AffordableCareAct. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Just in time! nbcnews.to/3LpwpjK

Unless Congress acts swiftly, millions of Americans who purchase their health care coverage on the individual market will experience sticker shock when they reenroll for 2026 coverage or receive their first bill for next year. CAP's Emily Gee explains: https://ow.ly/aiMx50X4kWl

New from @nealemahoney.bsky.social and me: "Building an affordable economy: A three-legged stool strategy." Everybody's talking affordability, as they should be! Here's our framework & principles: siepr.stanford.edu/publications... Substack summary: econjared.substack.com/p/a-three-le...

And insurers (and marketplaces) are supposed to send letters notifying current enrollees of premium increases that *arrive* no later than November 1. Screenshot is from HealthCare.gov:

Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill and neglecting to extend enhanced ACA tax credits mean 14.2 million more people uninsured by 2034. How many lose coverage in your congressional district? @kennedyandara.bsky.social & @nzmurphy.bsky.social crunched the numbers. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The larger-than-usual downward revision last month was in large part driven by a negative skew in the job growth distribution among late reporting firms. That’s unusual, but it’s happened before when the pace of job growth slows rapidly. This print is more evidence that was the case

In response, @emily-gee.bsky.social, senior vice president for Inclusive Growth at CAP, issued the following statement: www.americanprogress.org/press/weak-j...

Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report for August 2025. The report found that the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump added just 22,000 jobs last month and the national unemployment rate has increased to 4.3 percent.

I know I'm going to get this question a lot today, so here's my answer: Yes, I do still trust the data coming out of the BLS -- but with all the same caveats that always apply when trying to measure a changing economy in real time. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b... #EconSky #NumbersDay

What the heck is a "pocket rescission"? Is it legal? @bbkogan.bsky.social has the answers here, explaining this illegal, backdoor method by which Trump is slashing funding for government programs. www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

A Danish study of more than 1.2 million children over more than two decades found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

CBO/JCT data shows the distributional effect of OBBBA vs current law baseline. Ouch. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

In a single act, Trump is undoing significant portions of the health coverage gains of the last 60 years.

Trump’s cuts to science & innovation could stall innovation, eliminate jobs, and undermine U.S. global competitiveness. @alondra.bsky.social explains for @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/whit...

"What would happen if Powell were fired? In May, Goldman Sachs economists looked at unscheduled leadership changes in central banks around the world and found inflation was 1 to 2 percentage points higher two years later with no benefit to growth."

RFK Jr's cancelling of the USPSTF meeting raises more concerns that he will replace scientific expertise with his personal agenda. USPSTF guidance helps providers deliver high quality care and influences which preventive services many of us get free thanks to the ACA. www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/h...

New JAMA study (Forrest et al) shows a troubling decline in children's' well-being of over the past ~15 years, whether measured by chronic conditions, mortality, mental health, or other metrics. Kids are nearly 2x as likely to die in the US compared to OECD peers. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This round of budget cuts in Medicaid in the OBBB far exceeds any other cut the United States has made in its social safety net. Read my New York Times opinion piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

They're not even pretending to do economic modeling. They're just... making stuff up. It's the like the cubic model but for the federal budget.

CNBC: CBO says it'll add a trillion dollars to our public debt. How do you square that? BESSENT: If you turn up the growth projections to something like 3 percent, then the debt disappears

And if you turn up the growth projections to a zillion, then… I mean, what are we even doing here?

Congress is poised to pass one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. It will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income. 1/

Today's number (+147K) shows steady job growth in an economy anxious about Trump’s tariffs and weakening consumer spending threatening to slow investment. An inopportune moment for Congress to pass a budget bill that kills jobs, guts basic needs programs, and adds $3.4 trillion in deficits. Why? 🧵

Updated analysis from @budgetlab.bsky.social confirms how stunningly regressive OBBB is: Senate bill “would result in a decline of 2.9 percent (about $700) in income for the bottom quintile, but an increase of 1.9 percent (about $30,000) for the top 1 percent.” budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...

It's a very, very good point. The earlier crises were vast and required huge amounts of spending. We have no economic crisis now. We have a vast political and constitutional one. It's when you'd want to keep deficit/debt stable with respect to size of the economy.

Citing data from @americanprogress.bsky.social, John Oliver tells it like it is—Trump's bill will force MILLIONS of Americans off of their health insurance.

Tillis: “I did my homework on behalf of North Carolinians, and I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities”

We used monthly survey data to take a closer look at the potential implications of #Medicaid work requirements for adults without dependent children. Adults ages 50-64 are at greater risk of losing Medicaid coverage for not meeting the new requirements. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

My colleague @joanalker1.bsky.social explains how the preliminary Senate Finance reconciliation language made the #Medicaid cuts even worse for children and families: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/24/t...

These are our leaders?

This proposal reads like "high-risk pools, but for rural hospitals" to me High-risk pools never worked as well as people wanted, and I worry that a rural hospital slush fund would face many of the same challenges (underfunding, limited access, etc)

Medicaid is a lifeline for Americans with substance use disorder. House Republicans' budget bill would cut that lifeline for over 1.6M enrollees. Read my latest for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

Hard to overstate how useful this resource is. A few more fiddly Marketplace policies didn't make it into the Senate bill (e.g., SEP verification requirements) — probably because of Byrd concerns — but most consequential policies (including ending automatic re-enrollment with subsidies) remain

The Senate version of OBBB has made the Medicaid work requirement even worse. Parents are no longer exempt - the bill includes parents 14+. Most states that got Medicaid waivers to do work req. including parents of kids 6+ so when R's need more savings expect them to come back and lower this. 1/2

FYI the Senate Finance Committee text that just dropped leaves this provision untouched. They are choosing to spike costs for more than a million Medicare enrollees.

Worth noting that limit ONLY applies to states that have expanded Medicaid. Non-expansion states get to keep their taxes frozen at current rates. This is a shameless provision to undermine Medicaid expansion.

Republicans claim that they are protecting vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities Which is true — if by “protecting” they mean exposing 1.3M of them to punishing medical bills, and forcing them to go without essential, life-sustaining care www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-a...

"We have to be competent at governing.” @governorwalz.mn.gov offers an alternative vision of leading with competency and compassion:

New Pod @governorwalz.mn.gov discusses the rising authoritarian threat from the Trump administration & the president’s politicization of the military. Gov. Walz also talks about his record of delivering for Minnesotans & how Americans can push back in this moment.

the gop tax plan would leave many poor and middle-class households behind and that's before you account for all the people kicked off medicaid or snap

NEW poll from @kff.org shows that most of the public are worried about the impacts of federal funding cuts to Medicaid on their families and communities, including 54% who are worried that these cuts would impact their family's ability to get/pay for care. More here: www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

The final estimated increase in the uninsured is 10.9 million (a little above the prior estimate)