For over half a century, the National Weather Service has operated 24/7. But after the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency pushed to shrink the federal workforce, that’s no longer possible in parts of the country.

This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.

There’s been lots of chatter about repealing taxation of Social Security benefits in the tax bill. Turns out Rs opted to increase the standard deduction for some seniors instead. Will this increase help lower- and middle-income retirees? Nope, and here’s why. 🧵

The good news: the deeply flawed House GOP budget bill containing the tradeoff below doesn’t have the votes. The bad news: it doesn’t have the votes because the House Freedom Caucus is trying to make the yellow bar bigger and the SALT caucus is trying to make the red bar bigger.

As @taxlawcenter.org's Mike Kaercher notes in this piece, "The fact that there's even a question of whether the administration is violating these laws that prevent weaponization of the IRS is deeply troubling"

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

“Staffers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Thursday that they plan to form a union in response to several waves of layoffs and what they describe as a lack of transparency from leaders at the arts institution, which President Donald Trump took over in February.”

The #SNAP cuts in the House Ag bill would hurt millions of people. It could be particularly devastating for families, retailers and others in rural America.

This is not a screenplay. For some, these will be life or death situations. For many, these natural disasters will yield devastating loss. We should have a FEMA ready, able and fully staffed to support the American public when it needs it most.

When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung. One of those miners decided to fight back—and won. inthesetimes.com/article/west...

Great new blog out from my colleague @brendanvduke.bsky.social

Ways & Means bill "would impose onerous burdens on taxpayers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit for tens of millions of eligible children and, in doing so, discourage many of them from claiming credits for which they are eligible." New @taxlawcenter.org: taxlawcenter.org/blog/ways-an...

The House Ways & Means tax plan gives permanent tax breaks to the wealthy, with $105 billion going to households making over $1 million. Low-income families could face eventual tax hikes, alongside cuts to #Medicaid and #SNAP. @brendanvduke.bsky.social explains: www.cbpp.org/blog/how-hou...

These #s don’t consider the expiration of the enhanced PTCs, which made ACA coverage far more affordable & increased coverage. Despite extending profligate tax cuts for the wealthy, this is the 1 tax cut the W&M cmte doesn’t extend. 4M ppl will lose coverage as a result per CBO

The bill is even more regressive when you look at 2029 when tax cuts for families expire & tax increases resulting from cuts to ACA premium tax credits grow larger.

The House GOP is taking a page from 2017 playbook & making the most regressive pieces permanent (i.e. estate tax/pass-thru deduction) while making new tax cuts for families temporary.

These new tax #s only provide a partial snapshot of the Trump/House R agenda. They do not include cuts to Medicaid, food & more, or tariffs. We hope to have combined impacts soon–but even if you just add in the effects of the tariffs most families barely benefit if at all.

New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday: Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).

It’s deeply disappointing that House Republicans are planning to take food away from people who have fled their homes seeking safety in our nation and have completed rigorous processes to obtain refugee or asylum. Historically these humanitarian statuses have been supported by both parties.

My kid was home sick yesterday and I had to decide whether or not to send him to school today. I'm lucky. That choice wouldn't cost my job or make me lose pay. But if the GOP proposal passes low-income families would have to weigh all that and if staying home would jeopardize their ability to eat.

The new GOP proposal for SNAP cuts would take food off the table of 7 year olds if their parents can't report enough work hours. When my kids were 7, they were playing foursquare, learning math facts, and being silly. Imagine getting LESS help to feed your kids if your boss cuts your hours.

The Ways and Means committee bill includes a slew of expansions of tax-advantaged health savings accounts – totaling more than $40 billion/10y – that mostly benefit high-income people and do nothing to address the problems people face affording care. www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...

"This combination — top-heavy tax cuts financed by low-income benefit cuts — would add up to possibly the largest single transfer of wealth from poor to rich in U.S. history" says @bbkogan.bsky.social. Must-read this morning from @crampell.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."

Hey, but at least the billionaires will get cuts!

CBPP's Samantha Jacoby posted on X explaining how the House Republican tax bill's new federal tax credit to subsidize private school vouchers works: x.com/jacsamoby/st...

Make no mistake: The House Agriculture Committee's bill would cut millions of low-income people off SNAP entirely & slash food benefits for millions more. It's extreme. It's unprecedented. If enacted, it would be the single largest cut to food assistance in history.

We can’t afford to help families eat? And we think some people don’t “deserve” food? Why? Oh, right! We have to give wealthy people and corporations tax cuts instead. Silly me. Totally shameful!

We will have more analysis soon of these & other provisions. Bottom line: this bill would worsen hunger & hardship. If enacted, it would be the largest cut to #SNAP in history—taking food from struggling families to give tax cuts to the wealthy. Our leaders can & must do better.

The bill would also deny food benefits to all non-citizens who are not lawful permanent residents (green card holders). This includes people who are refugees & asylees, who were exempted from restrictions enacted in 1996. In FY23, 434,000 refugees & asylees participated in SNAP.

The bill would also cut food benefits for many households immediately by ending a simplification for calculating utility costs & cut future benefits for every single SNAP participant by permanently freezing the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan outside of inflation adjustments.

For each state & congressional district, we have estimates for how many people would be at risk of losing some or all of their food assistance due to this expansion of SNAP’s harsh work requirement to older adults & parents of school-aged kids. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

This provision puts 6 million adults at risk of being cut off SNAP entirely & risks reducing food benefits for the roughly 5 million people who live with them, including 4+ million kids aged 7-17. That's almost 11 million people at greater risk of hunger.

Consider a parent w/ a 2nd grader who works for a small business and gets laid off when sales fall after tariffs raise their costs. Or a parent without sick leave who loses his job when his child gets very sick. Both could lose their SNAP benefits & not have enough to feed their kids.

74% of the parents at risk of losing SNAP are women. Think about it: just after Mother’s Day, House Rs want to take food benefits away from low-income moms. If mom gets cut off SNAP, her family gets less food assistance—slashing the grocery budget she’s using to feed her kids.

Research shows this policy doesn't boost employment, it just increases hunger. It takes food away from people who are working but get tangled in red tape, people who are sick or caring for a sick child but fall through the cracks & don’t get an exemption, & people between jobs.

The bill would also take SNAP away from parents & grandparents of school-aged kids, adults in their early sixties & people living in areas without enough jobs by dramatically worsening SNAP's harsh, ineffective, & red tape-laden work requirement.

If states can't meet the additional need, millions may not have enough to eat – worsening hunger & hampering SNAP’s ability to stimulate the economy. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Even in good times, states will struggle to fill the massive hole left by this federal funding cut. But when the economy weakens, state revenues fall—at the same time more people lose jobs & need help putting food on the table.

The language is unclear, but it appears this extreme & unprecedented cost-shift could end SNAP entirely in some parts of the country if states decide the new state funding requirements are impossible for them to meet and they opt out of the program.

Here's how: This bill would require states to pay at least 5% of SNAP food benefits starting in 2028, with some owing up to 25%. States have been sounding the alarm that they can’t absorb this federal funding cut & it would lead to benefit cuts, eligibility restrictions, or both.

This bill would: - Slash federal funding for food assistance, making low-income people bear the cost when states can't fill the hole. - Take food assistance away from millions of people entirely & reduce it for millions more. - Cripple SNAP's ability to respond to recessions.

The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.

The House tax bill proposes to subsidize private school vouchers. Read more by my colleague Samantha Jacoby. QT via X: x.com/jacsamoby/st...

New CBPP analysis: 20M lower-income kids in *working families* won't get the full $2,500 max credit in the draft House GOP tax bill.

Important thread by @bendavanzo.bsky.social at NILC. The Ways and Means committee is proposing a parallel tax system that discriminates depending on immigration status. Must read:

This is all occurring because, on the campaign trail, some politicians promised to end Medicaid for undocumented immigrants. But since that can't happen (again, doesn't exist) they are cutting Medicaid for everyone

States would be faced with an impossible choice: submit to this massive and unprecedented federal overreach over how they spend their own funds or forgo, in a period of economic instability, billions and billions of dollars in Medicaid matching funds

This is not about federal funds being cut Medicaid for undocumented immigrants. They can't because such funds don't exist. This is about punishing a state that, for example, choses to cover DACA recipients on Medicaid (or in the case of New York, has to, under court order)