Wrote the damn bill. Fmr: Deputy Health Policy Director, @HELPCmteDems, @SenSanders; @SenateBudget; @USGAO; @ColumbiaMSPH; @ProvidenceCol.✨🏳️🌈
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Gotta hand it to the bad guys - hitting children and farmers at the same time is almost impressive!
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks ow.ly/jJh610625C6
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
Dolores Huerta was one bravest and most enduring champions of labor rights in U.S. history. Her passing is a somber reminder of the work we have yet to do to deliver on the aspirations she called us to.
Sí, se puede.
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NEW Exclusive: A new, final rule from the Dept. of Labor means that employers will get way more info on how their drug benefit managers are getting paid💰 -- including fees they get from drugmakers.
Critics have long called PBMs opaque.
With @annawmathews: wsj.com/health/healthcare/dr…
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Republicans slashed Medicaid last year in the One Big Beautiful Bill law, then used the money they saved to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and yet another illegal forever war. prospect.org/?p=146897
ALT Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks on the Capitol steps
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New in @PunchbowlNews midday:
Drug companies prepping for dem majority oversight of MFN drug price deals w Trump
“We’re not naive to the fact a Democratic majority will be interested in these deals,” says pharma industry source
Trade secrets "could be a contention point"
• DOGE administrator is hired
• Cuts HHS workforce by 22%
• Gives spouse a cushy fake job at HHS
It’s the same story again and again: loot & destroy our government, profit through harm. Don’t let them take what’s ours.
New: Amy Gleason was the acting administrator of DOGE as it worked to slash the size of the federal workforce through layoffs and incentivizing employees to quit.
Her husband got hired at an under-the-radar division of HHS just 33 days after widespread layoffs at the agency
🎁: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@APStylebook is it Dan Sullivans or Dans Sullivan
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Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation's sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California.
cbsnews.com/news/pediatric-i…
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News: Wyden and Sanders are accusing 10 major health insurers of "colluding" with Trump admin to kick thousands of ppl off ACA coverage
Wyden and Sanders will be chairs of Finance and HELP if Dems win Senate
They wrote oversight letters to the insurers
in @PunchbowlNews AM
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Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans?
Here’s what the data show
washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
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This is beyond absurd. Democrats need to pass bills that will demonstrably improve people’s lives and dare Trump to veto it.
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto."
"If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
