New Census data reveals rising poverty among older adults—over 9 million seniors (15%) live in poverty, with rates higher in communities of color. These aren’t just stats; they’re our parents, grandparents, neighbors, and keepers of our culture, all deserving to age with dignity.

On Social Security's 90th anniversary, President Trump repeated a series of lies about the program from the Oval Office. Let's set the record straight. 🧵

Understaffing at state agencies that oversee #NursingHomes puts residents at greater risk of abuse and neglect. And it's a growing problem, as I explain in this NPR piece. The good news: @justiceinaging.org is pursuing a legal strategy to help address it. www.npr.org/2025/07/15/n... #Elderlaw

"Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP is morally indefensible under any circumstance, but this budget bill is particularly cruel," said @kevinprindiville.bsky.social. It endangers not only the lives of today’s older adults but future generations as well. Read Justice in Aging's full statement:

@californiaalliance.bsky.social members rallied outside Rep. Valadao's office, demanding he keep his word and vote against devastating cuts to Medicaid. The clock is ticking: call 202-225-3121 and tell your Representative to vote NO. 🔗: www.bakersfield.com/news/local-l...

CBO has indicated 900,000 low-income adults aged 55 through 64 will lose food assistance under the expansion of SNAP's harsh work requirement to older adults. Older workers face employment discrimination & half of low-income adults in this age range face health barriers to work.

The Senate just passed a dangerous and deeply unpopular budget bill that cuts health care and food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. @kevinprindiville.bsky.social characterized the bill as "a staggering betrayal of our nation's older adults." Read our full statement:

So states will have no choice but to deeply cut their #Medicaid programs in response and HCBS cuts are often at the top of the list based on past experience (6/x): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

One more thread on a new provision in Senate reconciliation bill that Senate GOP will misleadingly tout as expanding access to home- and community-based services for seniors and people with disabilities (section 71123) but in context of the bill, it won't be meaningful (1/x)

Breaking News: Nonviolent protestors arrested today in the US #Senate, chanting #NoCutsToMedicaid, in opposition to the Big #Budget Bill they are seeking to vote on this weekend. #Medicaid cc: @familiesusa.bsky.social

🧵 @paidleaveforall.bsky.social Community Change & @caringacross.org just asked men across America how they feel about masculinity, the state of our country, and the family policy solutions they most believe in. The answer?

Over a thousand disability + aging organizations signed this letter outlining how harmful cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will be for disability and aging communities. www.c-c-d.org/fichiers/Sen...

Medicaid pays for 54% of all long-term care in the U.S. Without it, families go bankrupt or seniors go without. This is non-negotiable. #HandsOffMedicaid

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

As the House bill went to the floor some demanded more cuts to Medicaid. Based on the new CBO score out today, the largest cut to Medicaid ever went up by c. $75 billion as a result of these changes in the House passed bill. The draconian Medicaid cuts now 🟰 $863 billion.

Medi-Cal, In-Home Supportive Services, and other core programs allow Californians with disabilities to live safely and independently. Cutting these supports is unconscionable. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/pe...

Today, the House voted to pass a bill that would make unprecedented cuts to #Medicaid, #Medicare, and SNAP—all to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. @kevinprindiville.bsky.social called the vote an “unconscionable” choice to abandon seniors. Our statement: to.justiceinaging.org/01WlydY

Medicare was supposed to be left untouched in the budget reconciliation. But that's not the case. Read more from @nataliekean.bsky.social & Julie Carter on how Medicare enrollees will be harmed. And call your lawmakers - the House is set to vote soon! 866-426-2631 justiceinaging.org/broken-promi...

My @FamiliesUSA statement on the budget bill that would force millions of Americans to lose coverage and millions more to face higher health costs--in both public and private coverage, including Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA marketplaces.

Thread: Latest House GOP reconciliation bill language again makes the draconian #Medicaid cuts harsher. For example, mandatory work requirements now will take effect 12/31/26 instead of 1/1/29 and states have option to implement them earlier (1/x)

House Republicans’ latest changes to the already harmful health provisions of their budget reconciliation bill layer on last minute cuts, swifter coverage losses, more cost increases, and restrictions on care.🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

California is projected to see the largest number of newly uninsured of any state — as high as 1.7 million — and that’s based on the previous, less draconian version, so that number is likely higher.

Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.

The Congressional Budget Office finds that the reconciliation bill would take from the bottom 10% of the income distribution to give to the top 10% by stripping health care coverage and food assistance away. It's morally reprehensible. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

Thread with a few additional thoughts on the new CBO estimates of the #Medicaid cuts in House GOP reconciliation bill (1/x)

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. 🧵

Make no mistake: Republicans in Congress are coming after #Medicare too! The legislative text they will consider next week would strip Medicare coverage from immigrants who have been living, working, and paying taxes in the U.S. for decades.

Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...

It's nuts that this GOP #Budget proposal, dropped after dark late on Mother's Day, is going to be voted on in a committee starting just 40 hours later, and is not going to have a single hearing on any of the provisions that its backers admit are big and consequential..

The nonpartisan CBO estimates 8.6M more Americans will be uninsured as a result of the new GOP budget bill's #Medicaid cuts.. and another 5.1M from #ACA changes. That's at least 13.7 million more Americans living sicker, dying younger, and one emergency away from financial ruin.

@justiceinaging.org comes to the mic to share more stories from elders who want to #ProtectMedicaid

Dr. @mkushel.bsky.social shared research at yesterday’s CA Housing/CD Committee on what’s needed to sustain progress on homelessness. “We actually do know how to end this crisis. It is hard, but it is doable, and it will take sustained investments at all levels of government.” buff.ly/iJ1gBVO

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to ARC Director Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social for earning the 2025 Paul Nathanson Advocate Award from Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Scoop: Democrats have introduced an official inquiry into the decision to closure of the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled and aging adults remain independent. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Contrary to misinformation from Trump, Musk & others, immigrants play a key role in strengthening Social Security’s finances . . . and the Admin's plans to drastically cut immigration & increase deportations would significantly worsen them. More here: www.cbpp.org/blog/immigra...

Big picture: most of the major #Medicaid cuts involve cost-shifts to states/making it harder for states to finance their share of costs. They leave states holding the bag forcing governors/legislatures to make the painful choices slashing coverage/benefits for tens of millions.

"There's just a lot of reason…for fear of what aging is going to look like in this country," said Jorwic. "Not just with the tariffs − with the DOGE cuts at Social Security. [Older] adults and… family caregivers… are already strapped and stressed providing care." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Out today in Bill of Health! It's an open secret that U.S. nursing homes often aren't safe for >1 million people living in them. Yet a federal court just tossed a key protection for #NursingHome residents. I explain how states respond--using powers they already have. @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social

Nearly half (48%) of single homeless adults in California are ages 50 and older. A new study shows that housing-insecure older adults in primary and/or emergency care are not being connected to services that may be able to help them. ⬇️

As I told Kat McGowan of @npr.org “If money is tight, nursing homes will still get paid, but home caregivers and other support services might not—There's a real likelihood of unnecessary institutionalization, because of what states would have to do.”

This is a cruel misuse of agency resources to target, harass, and harm immigrants. Beyond the human toll, it's financially reckless: it weakens the Social Security Trust Fund by preventing working people from paying Social Security taxes.

The NYT and WaPost report the Trump Administration is erroneously adding immigrants to what is known as the “death master file” who are not deceased and have legally obtained an SSN. The Social Security Administration has accepted an initial list of about 6,000 immigrants. 1/5

Large federal spending cuts for #Medicaid could have implications for nursing facilities bc Medicaid covers 63% of nursing home costs. Federal cuts could lead to reductions in Medicaid payment rates making it harder for nursing facilities to bolster staffing to improve the quality of patient care.

Fact check: A person must be *lawfully admitted* to the U.S. to be assigned a Social Security number. Don't let the Trump Administration gaslight you. Their "digital murder" policy isn't about undocumented immigrants. It's about people who came here legally. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

Despite months of hearing from millions of constituents to reject cuts, the House is voting in mere minutes on a budget resolution that would strip coverage from millions of people, including older adults & disabled people who rely on Medicaid for health & long-term care. #MedicaidMatters

#MedicaidMatters for millions of older adults across the country. As @nataliekean.bsky.social reminds us, "If you have an older adult in your life who has been in a nursing home or received help at home with cooking, bathing, dressing, chances are Medicaid was involved."

Republican leaders plan to move quickly on the bill that will put these cuts into effect. NOW is the time to take action. Use this @caringacross.org tool to connect to your senators and urge them to protect Medicaid.

Breaking: The House just passed a budget that slashes Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax breaks for the wealthy. "With this vote, Congress ignored their constituents and chose billionaires," said @kevinprindiville.bsky.social. But our fight continues, and we need your support now more than ever. 👇

We filed an amicus brief urging a court to stop DOGE’s dismantling of the Social Security Administration. It’s impossible to threaten the infrastructure of Social Security without threatening the infrastructure of Medicare and harming beneficiaries. The two programs are intertwined.

A crisis—like illness or a spouse’s death—amidst CA’s affordability crisis is pushing many older adults into homelessness for the first time, testified Dr. Margot Kushel in yesterday’s CA Assembly hearing. “41% had never been homeless, not even for a night, before they turned 50.” buff.ly/cULHqZ7