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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
3,923 posts
Marissa D. Barrera
@mdb2
Wrote the damn bill. Fmr: Deputy Health Policy Director, @HELPCmteDems, @SenSanders; @SenateBudget; @USGAO; @ColumbiaMSPH; @ProvidenceCol.✨🏳️🌈
- It’s the American Dream! Becoming rich and famous and then selling your memorabilia to pay for cancer care!James Van Der Beek selling ‘Dawson’s Creek’ merch to help pay for cancer costs trib.al/cmL5Bwj
- You voted to take SNAP benefits away from 22 million Americans.Had some deep dish pizza. Pepperoni and cheese and Canadian bacon and pineapple. You can feed a small family for a week w one of these
- Won’t endorse Mamdani but has no problem stealing his talking pointsImagine an America where everyone can afford to live the good life. That’s the country you deserve.
00:00 - FYI we don’t need a Department of Government Efficiency. We already have one. @USGAO - the Government Accountability Office (GAO, est. 1921) - saves $133 for every $1 of funding it receives! If all GAO recommendations were implemented, the financial benefit could be >$200 bil.
- not very Jesus of you to cut Medicaid tbhWishing you a blessed and peaceful Good Friday! ✝️
- Replying to @EO_FarmerWe could save $450 billion over a decade by enacting Medicare site neutral payment reforms - without taking food off kids’ plates and money out of farmers’ pockets. Just one example. $1b is a sneeze in the context of the deficit AND it’s a bad policy that’ll harm Americans.
- 🧵Ever since I got covid years ago… I haven’t been able to think linearly. I haven’t been able to manage regular household or admin tasks. I’ve been stuck in a brain fog. The worst part? I don’t even want the fog to lift because -
- ‼️YO. Senator Jim Banks just called a wrongfully terminated HHS worker a “clown” and said he “deserved” to lose his job. Seriously?!? That is not how U.S. Senators should talk to civil servants. That is egregious.🤡
00:00 - America: Thanks to modern medicine, you can survive a major illness or injury! It will bankrupt you but it’s better than dying!Washington Post sliding in at the last second with the most out of touch column of 2024
- 12 million Americans are about to lose their health coverage.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.”
- Replying to @literEllyI hope someone buys the Dawson shirt and gives it back to him!!!
- Replying to @WayneWills15It’s a federal issue that the government just canceled $1 billion in business with local farmers, leading kids in schools to go hungry. Make no mistake that canceling smaller contracts with local farmers will lead to further consolidation in farming. Seems un-American.
- Replying to @mdb2dissociating is the only escape I have from the constant thrum of physical pain that has become my body. I’m so gnarled, I haven’t been steady on my own two feet in years. Everything is inflamed. I’m constantly panicked because I’m in pervasive pain and can’t breathe.
