Joshua Smith
@smithmachine
Currently: Policy Director, @SenateBudget / @SenJeffMerkley. When I grow up: Major League Baseball-Playing Supreme Court Justice.
The Trump Administration broke the law by illegally withholding Head Start funds.
Department of Health and Human Services—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Head Start Program Funds gao.gov/products/b-337…
CBO: The Republicans’ reconciliation bill will “increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance in 2034,” add $3.4 trillion to deficits.
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline cbo.gov/publication/61…
A win for government transparency.
BREAKING: In our lawsuit with @Public_Citizen, the judge just ruled that the Office of Management and Budget must restore its website that shows how it is spending taxpayer dollars. The judge had some strong words for OMB about the illegal removal of the site:
This one tax cut for rich investors in the Republican reconciliation bill is twice the size of the funding the same Republicans just clawed back from foreign aid and public broadcasting nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/…
“What the hell are we doing here? You want to have a conversation about debt and deficits, you want to have a conversation about aligning our foreign policy better… we can have that conversation. But I dare you to justify lighting food on fire.”
Let’s be clear about what Russ Vought is actually saying here: Pass our DOGE demands—or Trump and I will keep breaking the law by impounding Congressionally approved funds.
The Carrot weather app is the last true thing left on this earth
If only
We heard they recently decided to add more hops to Josh Smith 😎
Gotta side with the **shudders** Dodgers here nytimes.com/athletic/64696…
24 hours into vote-a-rama and I am
Happy Franz Kafka's "July 1. Too tired." day
Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.