Reposted by Chad BoltBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The Iran War has likely cost $25 billion by now. What could $25 billion fund domestically instead? 713246
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Congressional Republicans appear ready to put SNAP benefits even MORE at risk for kids and their families for the next 10 years, in order to pay for ONE HOUR of war in Iran. I wish I were making this up. firstfocus.org/update/will-... 1/7firstfocus.orgWill Congress attack hungry children again, this time to pay for one hour of war in Iran?Republicans in the House and Senate are seriously considering a second budget reconciliation bill. Though hundreds of billions more dollars dedicated to 39543
Reposted by Chad BoltKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026New USDA data show 2.5 million fewer people participated in SNAP in December compared to July, when the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. This is only the beginning — even more people will lose SNAP as the full brunt of these cuts take effect. 13838
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 20/11/202516 million kids rely on SNAP for more than just nutrition: it improves their health, educational outcomes, and stability at home. The shutdown showed us what happens when kids have to go without it, and why Congress has to avert deep cuts taking effect soon. firstfocus.org/update/child... 1/firstfocus.orgChildren Need Congress to Reverse the SNAP Cost Shift to StatesNew Bill Would Undo Cuts Designed to Let Kids to Go Hungry Roughly 4-in-10 participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are 220
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Huge news here. This plan went so far that it could have affected tens of thousands of children, on top of more than a million older workers and their retirement security and the health care they need. Glad to see SSA changing course. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comSocial Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproarThe policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider. 081
Reposted by Chad BoltKathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24wapo.stSocial Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproarThe policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider. 721695
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The Trump Admin's shameful attacks on kids with disabilities are happening on every front: legislation (OBBB), regs, and RIFs. The Social Security Administration's new proposed rule to limit SSI eligibility is yet another example. 1/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...firstfocus.orgRecent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with DisabilitiesProposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and 12222
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025After being ordered by a lower court to use funds Congress has already made available to pay Nov SNAP benefits, the Trump Admin is now going all the way to the Supreme Court to deprive 16 million kids of food. Unhinged levels of cruelty. 010
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025SNAP helps keep 16 million kids from going hungry. USDA has options to keep SNAP funded through November while the government is still shut down, but so far it is deliberately not using them. www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...booker.senate.gov 010
Reposted by Chad BoltKathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 23/10/2025With inflation on everyone’s minds, it’s a good time to recognize one of Social Security’s most valuable features: Its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be announced tomorrow. 🧵 87231
Reposted by Chad BoltKathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Admin is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance by up to 20%--which would be the largest cut ever. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...cbpp.orgTrump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older WorkersDespite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security... 13409303
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Biden IRS made it free and simple for you to file your taxes directly. The Trump Admin is making you go back to TurboTax. Shameful. 021
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Yeah, turns out voters across the political spectrum don't like it when you take away their health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts. www.politico.com/newsletters/...politico.comEx-GOP lawmaker: Medicaid cuts politically riskyFormer GOP Rep. Larry Bucshon, who retired from Congress in January, is cautioning his Republican colleagues that cutting Medicaid could be politically perilous. 010
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025They are standing between seniors and the Social Security benefits they've earned, they're doing it right out in the open, and it is to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Keep saying it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comSocial Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone serviceAgency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans. 010
Reposted by Chad BoltTax War Room @taxwarroom.bsky.social · 06/03/2025They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid. They’re lying. 072
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Cuts to Social Security are not a far-off possibility in the future, they’re happening *right now* — in the form of closed field offices and terrible service. This paves the way for further cuts later. Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...familiesoverbillionaires.orgRepublicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over BillionairesRepublicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo... 020
Reposted by Chad BoltTax War Room @taxwarroom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025READ: The GOP budget plan Republicans put in motion would slash Medicaid and Medicare -- but they aren't stopping there.familiesoverbillionaires.orgRepublicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over BillionairesRepublicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo... 14021
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.” This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCmt.cohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately/ 000
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025House Republicans right now, waiting for Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham to work it out on the remix 011
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The blunt approach to revenue that Trump is taking with these tariffs -- to pay for tax cuts for billionaires! -- is one that the federal government abandoned more than 100 years ago precisely because it was so unfair to the average American and their family. 120
Reposted by Chad BoltBrendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025New collaboration from @chadderr.bsky.social and I (no longer just collaborating in the Senate!) laying out the tradeoffs in the emerging House GOP tax bill. For example--they are using cuts to Medicaid to help finance tax cuts to the top 2 percent of Americans. 094
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs for the American people, but their tax bill is poised to do just the opposite - all so they can give more tax cuts to billionaires. @brendanvduke.bsky.social and I are out with a new column today, explaining: www.americanprogress.org/article/4-wa... 1/6americanprogress.org4 Ways House Republicans’ Emerging Tax Package Would Put Billionaires Over FamiliesThe emerging House Republican tax package would raise working- and middle-class families’ costs to shower enormous tax giveaways on the wealthiest Americans. 189
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Given that Tillis played a huge role in tanking a bipartisan Child Tax Credit agreement less than 6 months ago, not holding my breath here. 010
Reposted by Chad BoltBrendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025A new U.S. Treasury analysis shows that Congress doesn't have to extend tax cuts for high-income households if it wants to extend tax cuts for low- and middle-income families. Cutting taxes for the rich is a deliberate policy choice. home.treasury.gov/system/files... 24725
Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is the Republican blueprint to pay for tax cuts for billionaires: slashing Medicare and Medicaid, erasing climate progress by repealing IRA clean energy credits, cutting assistance for hungry people. When they show you who they are, believe them. 172
