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@ericawilli.bsky.social
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Working for racial, gender, and economic justice thru fiscal policy @DCFPI. Posts are my own.

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s pretty “rich” (pun intended) and not at all surprising that the Jeff Bezos owned, self-proclaimed free market advocates at the WaPo editorial board don’t like the Wealth Proceeds Tax. 1/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today’s budget proposal defies logic. Tearing down the pay equity fund, slashing our sustainably funded paid leave program, suppressing public employee pay, among other damaging cuts, all work against economic growth.
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Shira @shira-m.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What actually makes the economy strong & inclusive is investing in the workers who power the economy. The mayor's proposed budget gives workers the short end of the stick inc. cutting paid leave for medical needs and slashing Pay Equity Fund for childcare workers.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026
Tick tock. It's reparations-o'clock.
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Shira @shira-m.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Because of a long history of systemic racism, Black and Latino DC residents have worse outcomes by every employment measure — for ex. white DC workers’ median hourly wage in 2024 was almost 2x that of Black and Latino workers (1/4)
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EmpowerEd @empowereddc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This. Any lawmaker telling advocates it's a "tight budget season" while advancing a "recoupling" effort that would simultaneously hurt our budget and set an incredibly dangerous precedent of bowing at the feet of illegal federal interference should think twice about this approach.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Billionaires Gone Wild
Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy
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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨 Urgent action alert! 🚨 Congress wants to undo local legislation and cost DC $700 million in local revenue, and overturn our efforts to cut child poverty. Call these Senators and tell them to VOTE NO ON S.J.RES.102. Check out the last slide for a script you can use!
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tazramitchell.bsky.social @tazramitchell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Congress is meddling into DC affairs yet again. They now want to overturn a local law that would drain *local* revenue by $700m AND spike child poverty by eliminating expansions in our DC EITC & CTC. DC residents & state/national partners--please make the calls below!
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Jessica Fulton @jessicajfulton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
That Black unemployment rates are so high is frustrating. That so many Black women have been unemployed for so long is maddening. Watching these trends worsen in the data as well as in my friendship circles is devastating. I spoke with @19thnews.org about the impact. 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
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Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.
The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Consider, for example, the cavern of the capital gains tax treatment at death for those with enormous estates…” he says calling the stepped-up-basis a loophole for the mega rich 👀 On this, I agree with Mitt Romney. #taxjustice
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
www.cbpp.org/press/statem... Congressional Republicans and President Trump Fail to Address Affordability; Health Care Costs Set to Spike for Millions
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Congressional Republicans and President Trump Fail to Address Affordability; Health Care Costs Set to Spike for Millions
Instead of supporting this common-sense and urgently needed legislation, Senate Republicans put forward a partisan proposal from Senators Cassidy and Crapo that fails to extend the PTC enhancements an...
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Truly astounded by @mayorbowser.bsky.social. The social safety net is designed to meet basic human needs in a city with extreme racial and economic inequity, not attract residents or tourists. 🧵https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/07/08/interview-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-her-blm-plaza-decision/
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
DCFPI joined other anti-poverty organizations to raise the alarm: The proposed budget will set back DC’s progress towards alleviating poverty and hurt our ability to support residents in the future. 🧵
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
17 million people will lose their health coverage. For tax cuts for the wealthiest. And that’s to say nothing of the ripple effects across communities and lots of local economies. Truly mind blowing.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
ICYMI: researchers out of UPenn and Yale say that the reconciliation bill's assault on health care through slashing of Medicaid and ACA coverage would cost 51,000 people their lives annually ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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Potential Mortality Impact of the Reconciliation Bill
Colleagues from Penn LDI & Yale School of Public Health compiled research detailing the potential mortality impacts of the GOP’s Budget Reconciliation Bill
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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"If football stadiums drove economic activity, Landover would be at least an above-average suburban destination for shopping and entertainment. Instead, the old Landover Mall site decays behind chain-link fencing roughly a mile from Northwest Stadium, the Commanders’ current home."
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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This suggests that Republicans may add yet another deeply harmful health care cut to the Senate bill – a cut that would take health coverage away from even more people, shift massive, unaffordable costs to states, & could even lead some states to end their #Medicaid expansion.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The RFK megaproject promises just empty gloom. Let’s try this instead.
Rather than an expensive megaproject, D.C. should focus on an organic approach to city-building.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack
Go OFF, Kathy Hochul!!! All local politicians, take note. This is not the time for status quo speeches and decorum. This is the time for truth telling and identifying those responsible.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
While there are a few tiny improvements, overall take of Senate bill is its #Medicaid cuts are harsher than the House bill’s draconian cuts driven by new restrictions of existing provider tax cuts in expansion states and elimination of eligibility for lawfully present immigrants like refugees (19/x)
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Thread: Senate Republicans released initial bill language for their #Medicaid cuts. I am reading the bill now and will highlight key changes from House-passed bill. Topline is provider tax restrictions are worse, will devastate expansion state finances (1/x) www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New details on federal SNAP cuts: the Senate has released its own cruel proposal for massively cutting food assistance for economically struggling Americans to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, incl in DC🧵
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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Today, the US House is voting to strip away DC's sanctuary law. The vote violates DC residents' right to self-governance and since we don't have Congressional voting representation, we need folks outside of DC to stop them.
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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A Business Activity Tax (BAT) is a simple reform that would make our tax system more equitable by ensuring that businesses operating within DC pay their fair share. We estimate that a 2 percent BAT rate could generate approximately $500 million a year. Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
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D.C.’s Budget Crisis Demands Fairer Business Tax System
As the Washington, D.C. region heads toward a likely recession, local policymakers will need to look to new revenue sources to help lessen the pain. In D.C., lawmakers ought to adopt a simple reform t...
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Councilmember Zachary Parker @cmzparker5.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
You don’t want to miss this week’s podcast episode. 👀🔥 Catch The Ward 5 Wave wherever you listen to podcasts or head to ward5.us/podcast 🎙️ Thank you to Kimberly Perry (DC Action) and Erica Williams (@dcfpi.bsky.social) for joining the conversation!
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year. Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 30/05/2025
Musk’s time running the Department of Government Efficiency ended this week. A short tenure with long consequences. He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...
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What Musk's DOGE Really Cut: Trust, Safety, and Democracy - Roosevelt Institute
The American public deserves a government that is fit for purpose and delivers on its promises. But Elon Musk never intended to create that. DOGE was built on the fiction of Musk’s mastery of all thin...
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wow, here's a big change to D.C.'s sanctuary-city status: It looks like @mayorbowser.bsky.social wants to repeal the 2020 D.C. law that prohibits city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement (unless a judicial warrant is presented).
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A budget is a moral document that shows what and who we value (and what and who we don't). It couldn't be more clear in this proposal that instead of ensuring the folks with the least get sheltered from the storm, they get left out in the cold www.dcfpi.org/press-releas...
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Mayor’s Budget Leaves Residents with Fewest Resources Out in the Cold
This is not a ‘growth agenda.’ It's an inequality agenda.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In DC an average of $44k will go to the top 1% (those w/inc over ~$1.3m) while the bottom 20% (inc under $26k) get $90 (until the tax cuts for lower inc folks expire). Paid for in part by the biggest ever cuts to health coverage and food assistance. Some serious reverse Robin Hood 💩.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22/05/2025
when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high
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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 22/05/2025
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
Map of the U.S. showing voter support for cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food assistance) by congressional district. Support for SNAP cuts ranges from 5% to 14%. Created by Data for Progress.
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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today, the House approved a budget bill that included devastating cuts to programs like SNAP and Medicare, programs that tens of thousands of people in DC rely on every day. These plans would create new cuts and barriers that would have sustained effects on the District.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This bill would cause so much additional suffering. It would be by far the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance and condemning thousands of those people each year to die due to lack of coverage. (note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)
bar graph showing medicaid cuts rising over time up to 12-14% by 2034
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich. Thread on the next steps of the process.
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The DC Council should ignore Bowser’s stadium subsidy speed-run: ggwash.org/view/99546/t...
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The DC Council should ignore Bowser’s stadium subsidy speed-run
As written, the RFK Stadium deal gives Mayor Bowser, not the DC Council, the final sign-off on any amendments to it, conveniently teeing up for Bowser the ability to blame the council if her deal fall...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Rs dropped the manager’s amendment at 9pm. They’re planning to pass it through Rules shortly & through the full House TOMORROW MORNING w/out anyone understanding how the changes work & w/out any analysis of how it would affect people. Deliberately because they don’t want to wait for the analysis.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We finally have a manager's amendment amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R....
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thread. 33 of 40 #Medicaid expansion states (+DC) will now face a 10 point cut in their expansion match rate under House GOP reconciliation bill. Latest language penalizes not only states using own funds to cover undocumented kids but also states covering legal immigrant kids/pregnant women (1/x)
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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Stealing food and health care the most vulnerable to make the rich richer—that’s their grand plan www.dcfpi.org/all/us-house...
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US House Details its Cruel Plan to Take Food and Health Care from the Poor to Give to the Rich
The US House Budget Committee punted on a vote today to very literally take from people who are poor to give to the rich—a plan which, if successful, will do massive damage to the health and well-bein...
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday: Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).
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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The great @brendanvduke.bsky.social hits it out of the park here. What's at stake.
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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This bill is a disaster for children. It walks away from a 50-year commitment to ensure that poor children in rural Alabama and New York City all have access to the food assistance they need to grow and thrive.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
THREAD: the Ways & Means bill creates new opportunities for tax avoidance and evasion, adds complexity to the tax system, and increases filing burdens for low- & moderate-income families. My @taxlawcenter.org colleagues have more analysis coming, but here's a starter list (suggestions welcome):
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