Jonathan Moore
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White House aide on skipping budget plan: It ‘wasn’t in our interest’ wapo.st/4f4lsiE @washingtonpost
OBBBA includes big Medicare cuts too. "PAYGO is triggered when budgets over five- and 10-year periods add to deficits.. Medicare is not [exempt from sequester]. And it faces a whopping $533 billion in cuts over the next decade." newrepublic.com/article/197992… @newrepublic @NormOrnstein
“Known as the constrained total energy expenditure model, it says that our brains and bodies closely monitor our total energy expenditure, keeping it within a narrow range.” @washingtonpost @GretchenReynold wapo.st/4eN2IDX
Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
Sounds wonky, but withholding billions of dollars that Congress has already spent (#impoundment)--on things like clean school buses & Head Start--does real harm. We decided the president shouldn't be king with Nixon. @USGAO is in the crosshairs @TonyRomm nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/…
"CBO never said that 4.8 million people were out of compliance with the proposed work requirements; they said that 4.8 million people would lose coverage because of the work requirements" @onceuponA kffhealthnews.org/MjA2MTMyNQ via @kffhealthnews
Thank you for the good thoughts for PBS and esp. @NewsHour. It means the world. We're as determined to ever. Ways to support: 1. EASY one - let's build. Folo me - @LisaDNews. Folo @NewsHour RT this.
"filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions—including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals & payments to numerous women" @RonWyden nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bus…
Big news about Eliquis—the top drug for the Medicare population | Bristol-Myers and Pfizer to Offer Blockbuster Blood Thinner at Discount - The Wall Street Journal @WSJ @bmsnews apple.news/A-TKXRDvNTP2JW…
Today is the 3rd anniversary of @988Lifeline "39% of LGBTQ 13-24 year-olds in the U.S. said they had seriously considered suicide over the past year, including 46% of transgender & nonbinary youth." @thehill @bmigdon @TrevorProject @samhsagov @El_Marrrr thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq…
Federal workers tell their DOGE stories in new audio series axios.com/2025/07/16/dog…
NYT on Navy Yard's Italian outpost Ama “People who have come to work at H.H.S. or U.S.D.A. are talking about no additives, better grains, seed oils — even if they don’t believe it & are eating Doritos in their cars” @table81 @jane_black @nytimes @capital nytimes.com/2025/07/16/din…
"In April, the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns & Children was shut down following an EO signed by Pres Trump to eliminate “unnecessary” federal functions...The committee guides states on which diseases to screen for at birth." @endpts endpoints.news/the-trump-admi…
So the Supreme Court said Biden couldn't cancel student loans without congress but Trump can dismantle the entire fucking Department of Education?
The growing influence of vaccine skeptics inside HHS statnews.com/2025/07/14/ant… via @statnews @ChelseaCirruzzo
Murkowski waiting for the House to send the bill back to the Senate
Murkowski speaking to reporters after she voted in support of the legislation: "My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we're not there yet. "
More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act. If the House passes this bill, it will increase costs and hurt…
Mark this down. 6:50p. Keith self says the senate bill is “morally and fiscally bankrupt.”
The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt. We must get back closer to the House-passed version.