Bryce McKibben
@bmckib
He/him. Making college affordable @hope4college. Proud alum @HELPCmteDems @CCTrustees @EdWorkforceDems @WAStudents @UW @Kennedy_School @trumanapp. 🏳️🌈
The "Big, Beautiful Bill" is the latest big, ugly obstacle in higher ed access. Rising tuition & the deprioritization of investment in support services will have a devastating domino effect on students nationwide. @bmckib weighs in for @InsideHigherEd: insidehighered.com/news/governmen…
Following passage of OBBB, @usedgov announces they'll soon begin reducing federal student loan access for part-time students. Students often work multiple jobs or care for children, and reduced borrowing could severely threaten their basic needs security. fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-cent…
New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: aera.net/Portals/38/Peg…
BREAKING: @usedgov restarting interest on student loan borrowers stuck in SAVE limbo means borrowers will be charged an average of $3500/YEAR (or $300/month) just 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡. That's $27 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 total for these nearly 8 million people. protectborrowers.org/trump-to-resta…
It is simply untenable, and any Democrat who doesn’t recognize this fundamentally does not understand the work ahead and should, respectfully, get the hell out of the way.
A political system that requires you to have 60 Senate votes to cancel student loans or raise the minimum wage but only 50 votes to enact the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history.
Congressional Republicans just passed a massive budget bill that will devastate higher education and eviscerate programs that support students’ and families’ basic needs—including food assistance and medical care—in the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history.
I really am not being sarcastic when I say this is a big reason Trump won. Millions of people eat at McDonalds. McDonalds started gouging under the cover of inflation and people blamed Biden.
I knew McDonald's price increases had far outpaced inflation, but I didn't realize they were also far outpacing other fast food restaurants.
Tough to message work requirements when the jobs are disappearing.
The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp…
The Republican playbook of getting into office, transferring an insane amount of wealth to rich people, and then blaming them next administration for the debt and income inequality is so incredible because it just keeps working
Underpaid and overworked Dem staff are killing themselves right now trying to find every possible way to make the bill just a tiny bit less awful but the beach is cool too I guess
Fetterman when asked re: timing “Oh my God, I just want to go home. I've already my I've missed our entire trip to to the beach…, there's no drama that we know the votes are going to go…And I think, I don't think it's really helpful to put people here till some ungodly hour.”
Strangely, Senate Democrats do not seem to be interested in *offering* many of the amendments (putting them to the vote) instead of just filing them. Very curious way to fight the bill.
There is zero rush by Senate to move along with these amendments. The last amendment vote from Murray was open for 45+ minutes. It just failed. This is NOT your average vote-a-rama (usually overnight, and much faster)
Murray: How many times have my colleagues cried about the debt? How many times have they told me, I know you want to invest in child care, Patty, but we got to get this budget under control. Now that it's tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, suddenly the budget doesn't…
Ok, this seems like it’s in the weeds but it’s massive. Republicans are unilaterally rewriting the rules. What this means: 1) Rs are willing to break every rule to pass their unpopular budget scam 2) This marks the end of reconciliation as a limited process. More on that below.
NEWS — Senate R’s refusing Dem request for a bipartisan meeting with the parliamentarian on using current policy baseline to pay for tax cuts. Budget Cmte GOP spox: “There is no need to have a parliamentarian meeting with respect to the current policy baseline because Section…
New uninsured number from CBO: It finds Senate bill would cause 11.8M more uninsured Up from 10.9M for House bill cbo.gov/publication/61…
The President having the Department of Justice demand the head of a state university resign or else, over diversity programs…that is textbook fascist behavior. I don’t use that term loosely (or ever, I don’t think). But that’s what this is. wapo.st/3I1kyqJ