Great chatting! I hope the number one takeaway is this: this bullshit bill is not yet law, and public pressure in the next 24 hours could kill or at least delay it. If you’ve never called your rep before, make a plan to call tomorrow - especially if you have a GOP rep!

I feel lucky that tonight I was able to connect Jennifer and others to a platform and I host 2 tele town halls for thousands of people. If you’re angry and scared, you’re not alone. Thank you to everyone speaking out about this evil budget bill. Talk to friends and family, be loud. It matters.

Yes, calling your Members of Congress still matters. Tell your GOP representative to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

NEW OP-ED: Republicans are trying to pass their tax bill in the Senate this week — but it’s not too late to stop it. Read more from our Director @michaelslinden.bsky.social on the GOP’s Billionaire Tax Scam for @meidastouch.com:

Our Director @michaelslinden.bsky.social‬ testified before Congress about why this GOP tax bill is uniquely bad: “No major piece of legislation in at least 40 years—and probably longer than that—has simultaneously made the poor poorer while making the rich richer.”

How does the GOP tax & budget bill impact you? Our Director ‪@michaelslinden.bsky.social‬ has everything you need to know — using 100% nonpartisan sources.

The bill is the GOP’s top priority, and its goals to cut taxes and kick the poor are broadly shared by Republicans. But the scramble to both scale back House cuts *and* add more Senate cuts seems like a heavy lift. prospect.org/politics/202...

*chefs kiss* beautiful display of man who can't be bothered to look into who he's talking to but really wants the world to know he's an asshole

Today's edition of CAP's InProgress newsletter has me talking a little about the Republican budget reconciliation bill, which you can read below. If you have questions about budget reconciliation in general or the bill itself, I’ll do my best to answer here. my1.americanprogress.org/personalizat...

Republicans in Congress are trying to ram their Billionaire Tax Scam through the House potentially as soon as TONIGHT. This is not a drill. The bill would strip Medicaid from millions, raise health costs for millions more, cut food assistance, all while handing out new tax breaks for the rich.

Let's talk about what's going on in DC. Republicans have been trying to put together a reconciliation bill, and then hold a full House vote on it. Part of the bill got held up in committee on Friday because some Republicans were mad it didn't cut enough services, so they shut it down for a minute 1/

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...

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).

Cutting Medicaid and SNAP to fund massive tax breaks for the wealthy is reckless and morally indefensible. @michaelslinden.bsky.social testifying before Congress today:

It will never stop being remarkable to me that Congressional Republicans see these trends and think to themselves, "Well, we've got to push forward with a colossally unpopular package of Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the rich. That'll surely turn this around."

This week we’ve seen no shortage of constituents at community town halls — but in many areas the local Member of Congress is MIA. With so much at stake, the people are showing up — and they’re noticing who isn’t. Take a look at yesterday’s highlights from FSA and its state partners:

This will be a disaster.

Our director @michaelslinden.bsky.social is right: Republicans in Congress “know what happens they try to take people’s health care away... they know what happens when they raise prices for everybody in America.” It’s not too late for them to take a different path.

When your parents or friends or even you have trouble getting what you earned from Social Security, remember that this was the work of President Trump, Elon Musk, and a big ugly chainsaw that this Congress, led by Republicans, has empowered. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Look at the size of today's #HandsOff! protest in Topeka, Kansas 👀 Turns out people don't like billionaires stealing their government

This this this this this this this this this this this!!!!!

Hey, that’s my whole bit 👋 These are dark times for Tax Positivity, but I believe from this wreckage we will have a chance to build an economy where we can pay our taxes with pride knowing we’re contributing to the common good

WATCH: As Senate Republicans prepare to vote on their billionaire-first agenda, Families Over Billionaires director Michael Linden talked to Nicolle Wallace about the consequences for everyday Americans. #TaxTheRich

WATCH: As Senate Republicans prepare to vote on their billionaire-first agenda, our director @michaelslinden.bsky.social talked to MSNBC's @nicollewallace.bsky.social about the consequences for everyday Americans.

Sorry Sen Hawley but you’ve been lied to. There’s no way to cut $880B from Medicaid without massive benefit cuts for millions of low-income Americans.

“Republicans in Congress are betraying everyday Americans to give trillions in tax handouts to billionaires and corporations.” Our director @michaelslinden.bsky.social on the GOP’s Billionaire Tax Scam for @meidastouch.com:

We are not in a recession yet, but I want to just be very clear if and when one starts: Trump was handed a very strong economy and he alone fucked it up newrepublic.com/article/1892...

So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

Republicans have signaled their intent to break all budget rules in the Senate by inventing their own cost estimates on the spot. This would be many steps towards nuking the filibuster - and you may as well repeal the entire Congressional Budget Act at that point. Thread explaining it would work

If Republicans in DC keep pursuing their colossally unpopular and extreme agenda of cutting health care and food assistance to pay for tax breaks for the rich, get ready to see a lot more maps like this one.

Unbelievable. Apparently Trump and Musk think people have to freeze in the winter and roast in the summer so that there's more money to spend on tax breaks for the rich.

WATCH: What exactly does “budget reconciliation” mean? Our director @michaelslinden.bsky.social breaks down Republicans’ billionaire-first tax scam so you have the facts.

Let me get this straight: we can't "afford" to track disease, research cures or make sure food and drugs are safe, but we can afford to spend $4.5 trillion on tax breaks that mostly go to the rich?

"The Senate" in this case = every Republican senator but one. Every Democratic senator voted against this.

Remember, this doesn't actually change anything for actual human beings. Regardless of the "baseline," their bill is still a giant, expensive tax cut mostly for the rich, that everyone else will have to pay for one way or another.

"Hard decisions" always seems to mean that everyday people lose their health care or their education or their housing. It never seems to mean that rich people and corporations give up their tax breaks.

It should be a major scandal that the Social Security Administration made it harder for parents to register their babies in Maine to punish the President's enemies www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

Underappreciated is that Trump and Musk will increase the amount of fraud through their attacks on Social Security The chaos and service disruptions are perfect opportunities for scammers to steal identities and benefits www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We have a paper out this morning on the risk of significant damage to Social Security from actions taken by the Trump Administration and DOGE. Here’s a summary 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

"Some Republicans have denied that they are singling out Medicaid and SNAP for big cuts, but simple arithmetic undermines this claim." My new column:

New column on the WH/GOP pincer movement against entitlement programs. Musk/DOGE chip away at gov't departments, such as the Social Security Administration, while Republicans on Capitol Hill target Medicaid & food assistance to pay for regressive tax cuts. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX nyti.ms/4kPE8VJ

To recap: Trump admin is firing Social Security employees; requiring beneficiaries to visit field offices in person instead of calling; and then saying any beneficiaries whose checks don’t come, and who therefore can’t pay the rent, must be fraudsters. Insane. And not what Americans voted for.

WATCH: GOP members of Congress are back in their districts this week — and it isn’t going well.

Efficiency!

Important new work from my @budgetlab.bsky.social colleagues Harris Eppsteiner & John Ricco on the House budget resolution. Neutral illustrative policies consistent w/ committee deficit targets suggest the proposed tax + spending cuts are regressive: they benefit the top & hurt the bottom. 1/3

The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services. This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor). It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...