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Karla Martínez

@karlamartineztx.bsky.social
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Health policy @ Community Catalyst | formerly Every Texan, Every Texan United, UTHealth, TXST | all things immigrant access, health, food, equity, and union Did I mention I’m Texan?

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Voters of Tomorrow @votersoftomorrow.org · 22/05/2025
Just before you woke up today, House Republicans gutted healthcare and food assistance to pay for massive tax cuts for the rich. Call your Senators and tell them to VOTE NO on the Billionaire Bailout Bill. votersoftomorrow.org/StopBBB
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 22/05/2025
If the GOP Tax Scheme is so beautiful, then why are they voting on it in the wee hours of the morning? Maybe because it’s irredeemably ugly and cruel.
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Elizabeth Lower-Basch @elowerbasch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Vote first, read it later. What a terrible bill, what a terrible process.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/05/2025
1/ We’ve been sounding the alarm for months and now the Congressional Budget Office has confirmed it. This budget would gut Medicaid and SNAP, saddle states with new costs, and do real harm to working people. Let’s break it down 🧵
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 21/05/2025
Lawmakers are scapegoating immigrant families to justify gutting Medicaid – when greedy corporations are to blame. Cuts to Medicaid harm us all, driving families into debt & straining community hospitals. 📖 Read our new blog w/ @pifcoalition.bsky.social >> commcat.io/4kqj1rU
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Scapegoating immigrant families won’t solve our health care crisis - Community Catalyst
Authors: Dr. Brandon G. Wilson & Adriana Cadena After assuring constituents that Medicaid would be protected, the Trump administration and a MAGA-led
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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
$792 billion in Medicaid cuts. $535 billion in Medicare cuts. $101 billion in ACA cuts. That’s not gonna play well in..[checks notes]…well, anywhere, actually.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@momsrising.org at the Capital still fighting for Medicaid before the 1:00 a.m. vote #MomSky
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 21/05/2025
IF YOU ARE READING THIS: House Republicans are set to take the next step toward passage of their sprawling reconciliation bill at a Wednesday hearing scheduled to begin while most Americans are fast asleep. via @commondreams.org
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'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts | Common Dreams
"They have such contempt for the American people," said Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/05/2025
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A Tesla worker in my district was electrocuted to death because the company ignored safety rules. OSHA fined Tesla $50,000. Elon Musk makes that back in nine minutes from federal contracts alone. Workers’ lives are worth more than nine minutes of Elon Musk’s day.
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 15/05/2025
Make no mistake: Congress' reconciliation bill will hurt all of us. We need funding for health care, education, and food assistance — not for Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Tell Congress: Reject this harmful budget ⤵️ act.nilc.org/page/79423/a...
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Tell Congress: Stop Wasting Our Money Attacking Our Communities
Members of Congress are on the cusp of lining the pockets of private prison companies by funding raids in schools, churches, and hospitals, while slashing critical programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and st...
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 14/05/2025
Republicans released their planned changes to Medicaid that will raise costs and lead to MILLIONS losing their coverage entirely. After a Republican rep claimed they aren’t targeting the disabled with their cuts, this woman shouted “You will kill me.” Security removed her.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
At least 26 people have been arrested for protesting Medicaid cuts during the House Energy and Commerce committee’s hearing on Medicaid to mark up the bill. Reportedly, security had a hard time stopping them from going into the hearing. #DontMessWithMedicaid
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Arrests made outside congressional hearing at U.S. Capitol as activists protest proposed Medicaid cuts
Capitol police took 26 people into custody for illegally demonstrating outside the budget hearing on charges of crowding, obstructing and incommoding.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NEW: The Office of Refugee Resettlement Is Becoming an Immigration Enforcement Arm, Sources Say @lomikriel.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social w/ @texastribune.org
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An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers, current and former officials told P...
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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Ways and Means committee bill includes a slew of expansions of tax-advantaged health savings accounts – totaling more than $40 billion/10y – that mostly benefit high-income people and do nothing to address the problems people face affording care. www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...
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Five Reasons Lawmakers Should Reject Expansions of Health Savings Accounts | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Expanding health savings accounts (HSAs) is a key element of Republicans’ health care policy agenda. Ostensibly, HSAs allow people enrolled in certain health insurance policies to set aside money...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13/05/2025
Medicaid is NOT a handout. It’s how 4.8M Texans survive. Republicans want to cut $715B from it while handing out tax cuts to billionaires. That’s not “fixing” the budget, it’s disrespect for the people who need it most — and voting for that is un-American, plain and simple.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13/05/2025
Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
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Karla Martínez @karlamartineztx.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Texas is home to both the highest rate and number of uninsured folks. The single most meaningful thing Texas could do to reduce ER costs is expand Medicaid- instead some Texas leaders are trying to scapegoat immigrants on faulty information.
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Medicaid is the primary payer for most nursing home stays in America. Cutting it will leave seniors & working families with the impossible choice of going broke or struggling to provide care with no support. That’s the real cost of these so-called savings.
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Nursing home and elder-care residents could be hit hard by potential Medicaid cuts
Medicaid funding cuts may impact nursing home residents and elder care services nationwide.
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Karla Martínez @karlamartineztx.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thank you @doggett.house.gov for representing Austinites’ best interest through this very bad no good bill
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Our members just began work on a 28-page tax bill turned 400-page tax bill overnight. Republicans' response when asked about it: "Because I say so." That's not going to work for the American people. Rep. Suozzi:
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is less than 2 hours in of marking up Republicans' marquee tax legislation. Aren't they proud of their bill?
An image of the Ways & Means Committee room with the Republican side of the dais with mostly empty seats.An image of the Ways & Means Committee room with the Democratic side of the dais with filled seats.
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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The E&C reconciliation bill slashes Medicaid matching funds, for everyone, in states that provide health coverage to immigrants, even lawfully present ones! The dark blue states on this map, which use their own state tax dollars to cover children not qualified for Medicaid, will see massive cuts
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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
They are proposing to deny the ACA's premium tax credits to many many types of immigrants. In fact only three types of immigrants could receive it: -Green card holders -Certain Cubans -People in the U.S. under the COFA treaty All the other immigrants in this resource would be kick off health care
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“Lawfully Present” Individuals: The Affordable Care Act
This guide describes immigration categories that are considered “lawfully present” for ACA eligibility purposes.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 01/05/2025
The list could go on and on….and on. But here are 5 diabolical, disastrous, deplorable, detrimental dumb decisions by Don.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 29/04/2025
Sharing our stories. Meeting lawmakers. Fighting to protect Medicaid and stop the medical debt machine. This is what building people power and holding our policymakers accountable looks like. #CareNotCollections
Group of advocates, state and national partners, and policy experts holding #CareNotCollections day of action signs in front of the national Capitol
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 24/04/2025
The Child Tax Credit lifted millions of people out of poverty, including immigrant families, allowing them to afford their everyday needs. Cutting the Child Tax Credit cuts parents’ ability to care for their families. Today, along with @pifcoalition.bsky.social , we say #NotOnMyWatch
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 24/04/2025
Resources like Medicaid, SNAP, & more help immigrant families & other hardworking families get food, healthcare, & other support they need. Cuts to safety net resources means cutting a lifeline for families. Join us and @pifcoalition.bsky.social to say #NotOnMyWatch!
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Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition @pifcoalition.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Resources like #Medicaid, #SNAP, & more help immigrant families & other hardworking families get food, healthcare, & other support they need. Cutting safety net resources means cutting a lifeline for real families. #NotOnMyWatch #ProtectFamilies
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Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition @pifcoalition.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Starting soon! Join us at 2:00PM ET to tell Congress to #ProtectFamilies and not cut critical safety net resources. Get the toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/04/2025
Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.
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The WEBBIX @webbix.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The message from the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS for this incompetent and corrupt rogue regime is… Hands OFF OUR Medicaid! We will NOT sacrifice the healthcare of the millions spanning from children to seniors to provide the most WEALTHY a TAX CUT!
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 31/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u... Texas is home to the third-most federal workers in the country—and now Trump wants to gut their union protections, along with those of hundreds of thousands more. Absolutely not. I stand with our workers and their right to organize.
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Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government
An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The USDA was paying local farms and food suppliers to provide lunches for local students It seemed like a win-win Until Donald Trump and Elon Musk stopped the program Because it wasn’t “fiscally responsible” Cutting $1 BILLION from millions of starving school children To pay for tax cuts Evil
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Jennifer Sullivan @jenniferlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The proposal also includes cruel attacks on specific groups: (1) a ban on premium tax credits paying for gender-affirming care; and (2) barring marketplace coverage for certain people who are immigrants by making people with #DACA ineligible for marketplace coverage.
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Jennifer Sullivan @jenniferlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
CMS's proposed #ACA marketplace rule would mean fewer people with health coverage, more red tape, higher costs, less time to enroll, plus decreased access for certain groups. People currently struggling to afford the basics would once again lose out. Some highlights (lowlights?) - a 🧵:
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
An out-of-state billionaire gave Greg Abbott $12 million to pass a private school voucher scam. I'm joining my colleagues in requesting Mr. Jeff Yass testify before the Public Education Committee. Texans deserve to know who's behind this scam.
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 06/03/2025
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
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Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Democratic House Rep. Sylvester Turner from Texas died last night at age 70. His last words to his constituents were "don’t mess with Medicaid.”
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Medicaid covers more people than Medicare and Social Security, including many in Trump’s political base. It hasn’t been a political third rail, but that’s starting to change. @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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As GOP eyes Medicaid cuts, Trump tries to avoid the political third rails
The president has said his administration “won’t touch” entitlement programs. Past efforts to do so have backfired on Trump and other politicians.
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Karla Martínez @karlamartineztx.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Me 🙋🏾‍♀️
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/02/2025
📣 OK, I've posted several threads with prototypes on this project, but this is the definitive one: I'm generating pie charts breaking out enrollment in ACA plans, Medicaid/CHIP & Medicare for the total populations of EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT suitable for sharing: acasignups.net/25/02/26/pie...
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Pie Charts Galore! Medicaid! CHIP, ACA & Medicare enrollment by Congressional District
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
West Texas story time: Measles + Medicaid. First and foremost, it’s rural. My fiancé, @rayosunlong.bsky.social, lived in Marfa - nearest trauma hospital was 4 hrs one way (El Paso), 3 hrs the other (Midland). Rural hospitals have been shuttered in this state. Local docs are the only respite. +…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/02/2025
"I’m scared to sleep, worried that ICE will knock on my door and take my husband." For families in mixed status households, the thought of having their family torn apart is devastating.
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'I Won’t Abandon My Country' | ACLU
Maria is a third-generation Latina American who loves her country as much as she loves her husband, Miguel, who is undocumented. In a moment when Donald Trump has threatened to unlawfully deport milli...
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