We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

Meet our sixth Executive Director: @thewallner.bsky.social! Amanda’s passion for health justice began as an LGBTQ advocate, and like the queer & trans elders before her, she’s not afraid of a fight. Hear how she plans to lead in this critical moment for CA’s health:

Was feeling like I needed something uplifting and pure after today’s vote so I turned on Planet Earth 3, which I’ve never seen. The first scene is a group of seals teaming up to chase off a great white shark. If that isn’t a metaphor right now, I don’t know what is youtu.be/ovBvGelWHIk?...

The reconciliation language released by the Senate this week would cause millions of Californians to lose health care, endanger services at hospitals and clinics, gut protections for medical debt, and more. Our leaders must stand up and stop the big ugly betrayal that is this bill.

#CABudget leaders say they condemn Trump’s anti-immigrant violence, yet at the same time are ripping health care away from the community. #SpeakerRivas #ProTemMcGuire @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social: Put your 💸 where your 👄 is and fund the vision you say you believe in! NO CUTS! #Health4All

“Most of these [ #CAbudget ] savings come, not from the $100 premiums that people are paying, but from the fact that they know people won’t be able to pay $100 premiums and will just lose coverage,” our executive director, @thewallner.bsky.social said. @sacbee.com amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

Ohio would lose far more than it saves by ending #Medicaid expansion. Just $116M in net savings vs. $42B in lost federal funds, 435K more uninsured, and over $1.1B in lost tax revenue. The real state cost? Health, jobs, and economic stability www.healthpolicyohio.org/our-work/pub...

This morning, every Republican representative from California voted Yes on the House’s budget reconciliation package. Let’s be clear: they voted to take health care and food assistance away from millions of vulnerable Californians. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/ho...

The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.

House Republicans have voted to advance Trump's budget bill. This bill will: —Increase the national debt —Throw millions off their health care with Medicaid cuts —Cut taxes for billionaires —Raise costs for the poorest Americans

"Let's call this what it is—theft."

To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2

New from CBO: the Republican budget reconciliation plan would hurt the poorest Americans while helping the richest Americans

Today’s amendments took a bad bill and made it worse. The amendments, which were first put in writing just a few hours ago. Which we can be certain most members have not read. It’s despicable.

Here’s a huge part of the problem…this is as much a health care bill as it is a tax and immigration bill—and it should be reported as such. They’re cutting upwards of $1 trillion from the ACA and Medicaid with more than 10m losing insurance — and this framing gives them a pass on that deviation.

Dear friends, please don’t play a drinking game where you take a shot every time Republicans say “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act”.

A house divided. Morgan is watching the finale of Survivor I’m watching Republicans jam through a wildly unpopular bill to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars, give a handout to the wealthiest people in America, and slash health care, SNAP, and public benefits

The rush is intentional - they would rather we didn't know the impacts of the legislation they're voting on overnight. There is no need to rush. The Memorial Day deadline is a fiction.

Republicans are back at it again—trying to ram their Big Backstabbing Bill through the House under the cover of night.   At a time when Trump’s tariffs are raising costs, this bill will devastate working families.   Democrats will leave no procedures unturned & no stories untold.

🕐 It’s 1AM. Do you know where your Member of Congress is? 👀 They’re in the Rules Committee trying to sneak through a tax scam that guts Medicaid & school meals. Because when your plan is this toxic, you gotta pass it while everyone’s asleep. 📺 Watch live: seiu.co/3SJr5rZ

Thread. 33 of 40 #Medicaid expansion states (+DC) will now face a 10 point cut in their expansion match rate under House GOP reconciliation bill. Latest language penalizes not only states using own funds to cover undocumented kids but also states covering legal immigrant kids/pregnant women (1/x)

Medicaid isn’t waste — it’s care.
 It covers half of U.S. births, millions of seniors, and people with disabilities.
 The real waste? Attacks on a program that saves lives.
 📞 Call Congress: 866-426-2631 to urge them to protect Medicaid.

A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

The news is tough This is Juniper

Congress is one step closer to ripping health care away from millions of Americans and destabilizing care for millions more. Will the members who have said they won’t vote for cuts stand by their word and stop it? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A bill that aims to protect Californians from skyrocketing health care costs made it out of the Assembly this morning & now heads to the Senate! #AB1415 (@asmmiabonta.bsky.social) gives CA the tools to monitor powerful financial interests in health care & put patients over profits. #CALeg

Taking money out of the pockets of low-income immigrant families to access basic care isn’t going to fix the state's budget problems, but it will mean more Californians living sicker, unable to work, and going to the ER for preventable conditions. More: health-access.org/health-and-i...

At a time when our health care and immigrant communities are under attack from the federal government, we should be able to count on California elected officials to protect our communities. Instead we got the same tired talking points we’re hearing from Congressional Republicans.

Medicaid work requirements have a catchy name, but they will catch up a lot of eligible people in red tape and cause them to lose their health coverage. House Energy and Commerce Committee is debating this now. #healthpolicy ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/05/13/h...

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

Kicking millions of working adults off of Medicaid does nothing to benefit for pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, or others the Republicans claim to want to protect. Health care is not pie, there’s not less for me because my neighbor has coverage too.

Rep. Pfluger gives away the game: the Republican plan aims to take us back to before the ACA, when uninsurance rates were triple what they are now.

For the vast majority of Americans, increased premiums and cost sharing - caused byMedicaid cuts, expiration of ACA subsidies, and destabilization of health insurance market- will be more expensive than any benefit they receive from tax cuts. For many, it will be A LOT more expensive.

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

“Savings” in House budget speak = not paying for health care because people got kicked off

This is the only reason we’re talking about Medicaid cuts right now. It’s not to strengthen the program, or address waste or fraud. It’s to pay for tax cuts for wealthy CEOs and corporations.

CBO projects a reduction in Medicaid coverage of 10.3 million from the Republican bill, with much of that likely coming from work and reporting requirements. Yet, it expects employer-sponsored health coverage to increase by just 800,000.

Over 90% of Medicaid enrollees here in California are working or qualify an exemption. The only way for work requirements to save over $300 billion (per CBO) is to kick millions of eligible people off of coverage. #fightforourhealth #reconciliation

America … Republicans are trying to pass $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and health care in the dark of night. They don’t have the spine to do this when the country is awake and paying attention because they know what they’re doing isn’t popular and harms millions of Americans.

The people of CA-44 are being well-represented tonight.

A lot of talk at E&C about not kicking anyone off of Medicaid who qualifies for Medicaid. But the bill fundamentally changes the rules about who qualifies, which will terminate care for millions of people who got coverage following the Affordable Care Act.

Want a cheat sheet to follow along as the House Energy and Commerce Committee considers Medicaid changes? We’ve got you covered. www.kff.org/tracking-the...

Congress members on Energy and Commerce are now prohibited from calling out the lies in Republicans' talking points. But I'm not on the committee. It's a lie that no one will lose their coverage It's a lie that people with disabilities won't be affected It's a lie that children won't be affected

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

Last night Republican leaders in Congress released details of their budget proposal, putting in writing their plans to gut #Medicaid. Many of our CA GOP Reps have said that they would not cut our health care. It’s time now for them to stand by their word and #FightForOurHealth

The topline impacts of the GOP budget bill on health care is 13.7 million more uninsured, increased costs for consumers, and massive cuts to the hospitals and health providers we all rely on. But there's lots of details that each are infuriating in their own way.. small stuff with big implications.

We need the California members of Congress who promised not to vote for any bill that cuts Medicaid to stand by their commitments when it really counts next week. The impacts of this bill are undeniable, with over $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and the ACA. fightforourhealth.org/press/2025/0...

🚨 Republican Medicaid cuts won’t just hurt hospitals — they’ll shut them down.