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Meg Wiehe

@megwiehe.bsky.social
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Fighting for tax, economic, and racial justice. Happiest wandering the woods, paddling the waters, exploring new places, listening to music, and hanging with my kiddos. ❤️Durham

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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thank you @nikitagill.bsky.social for this powerful reminder
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@nikitagill.bsky.social providing inspiration on this dark day
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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
BTC is here to... 📝Publish research that exposes inequities and offers real solutions ✊Advocate for people-centered policy 🫂Build community partnerships that elevate voices too often ignored Help us continue our work into 2026 today: ncbudget.org/donate
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
👇👇👇 Make it make sense. MRNA technology allowed us to leave our homes and embrace loved ones again. It’s responsible for transformational advancements in curing cancer and other diseases.
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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congressional Republicans and the President now own its impact. Unfortunately, it is their constituents who will pay the price for their poor leadership. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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Republican Bill Will Raise Costs, Poverty, and Hunger, Take Health Coverage Away From Millions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
House and Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families’ food and health care costs, increase poverty and hunger, take health coverage away from millions of people, and drive up d...
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@nikitagill.bsky.social providing inspiration on this dark day
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Vox @vox.com · 02/07/2025
It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/r8lULu
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What Trump’s massive bill would actually do, explained
It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
For all of the voluminous punditry about the possibility of new worker-friendly Republican Party, Trumpism marks not just a continuation but an acceleration of the GOP’s multi-decade class war from the top down. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
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Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
We are in the midst of the broadest attack on civil rights in a century and Trump may be ushering in an era of unchecked discrimination. My essay in today’s New York Times Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate
As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
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Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The latest Senate Republican plan retains a deeply harmful provision that tramples over state rights’ to make decisions about how to use their own funds to ensure their state residents can access comprehensive health coverage.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️
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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Senate Republicans are rushing to pass a bill that would take #SNAP food assistance away entirely from millions of low-income people & cut food benefits for millions more. Some states could even end SNAP entirely. But Senators still have time to reject these harmful policies.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New must read report from @wesleytharpe.bsky.social @katiebergh.bsky.social @aorris.bsky.social shows how the House Republicans' reconciliation bill (now up for debate in the Senate) will force states to make deep cuts to health care, food assistance, education, and other vital investments👇
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“Millions of Americans will lose their health coverage, local hospital systems will face unprecedented financial strain, state operational costs will spike." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“They're throwing nuclear bombs in the scientific community. It's going to be totally shocking, and it will take decades to rebuild.” To see the work my husband and his colleagues have been leading be forced to such a nonsensical halt after so much progress is heart wrenching.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our new fact sheets show how House Republicans' reconciliation bill would impact people in your state. Spoiler alert: A lot of people would lose the health coverage & food assistance they need.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The bill House Republicans passed in the cover of night includes a new federal tax credit to subsidize private school vouchers — the first nationwide voucher program.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
When you read the comments (I know), the stories of peoples' experiences with burdens are heartbreaking--and inevitably involve the most vulnerable beneficiaries. As a parent whose child has a significant disability, they're also kind of terrifying to read.
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@Mike James Anyone who actually knows people who need Medicaid (not Medicare) and can't work knows that they often have a lot of trouble dealing with the paperwork and understaffed Medicaid offices. My own son, who had a severe mental disability in another city, went without Medicaid for long periods because he could not handle the paperwork. He couldn't keep jobs because of his condition, although to outer appearance he was "able-bodied." He got on Medicaid when he was taken by EMS workers to an emergency room and they signed him up. Later he lost it, until another EMS-assisted visit to the ER. He died at the age of 39 because of a cardiovascular condition that should have been caught years ago. Republican lawmakers are soulless enablers of tyranny wearing crosses while passing laws allowing millions to die.

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“ …which will shed millions of eligible beneficiaries by overwhelming them with pointless paperwork and other needlessly complicated administrative requirements”

We have a family member, learning disabled, a type 1 diabetic, with stage 3b kidney disease, and who lost 75% of his heart muscle several years ago, leaving him with an ejection fraction of approximately 23%.

He is on Social Security disability and is on Medicaid.

Starting nearly 8 years ago he first was placed on Medicaid.

Generally the Medicaid recertification process was reasonably simple, meaning a resubmission of the documents indicating any changes, focusing on income.

A few weeks ago, for no reason he was dropped off Medicaid, and it required several physical trips to the Medicaid office to drop off duplicates of previously submitted documents.

Each and every time we had the individual receiving the documents stamp in each and every document, and give us a copy of the submitted documents.

This occurred four (4) separate times, resulting in our having four (4) separate sets of copies with four (4) separate date stamps.

To add insult to injury, they asked us to resubmit another few documents.

Finally we got him put back on but only after a we encountered an individual who apparently realized something wasn’t as it should be, and actually stated she couldn’t see why any of this occurred; also they suggested, in spite of the evidence of they stamped in copies, they couldn’t find them.

Outright fraud.
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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
House Republicans passed a bill this morning that fails the people they promised to help. It would raise costs on families across the country, making it harder for them to meet basic needs & weather life’s ups & downs — and give ever larger tax cuts to the wealthiest households.
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"No Tax on Tips" accounts for ~1% of the cost of the tax cuts in the House GOP bill, but Trump and the House GOP talk about it way more than 1% of the time because distracts from the tax breaks tilted toward the wealthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This week, US House Republicans advanced legislation for the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history. If enacted, it will strip hundreds of thousands in NC of vital supports and erect new barriers to health, employment outcomes, and well-being. ncbudget.org/us-hous... #ncpol
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US House plan: Hurting North Carolinians’ wallets and well-being - NC Budget & Tax Center
North Carolinians want their policymakers to keep rising costs in check and make their lives better — not worse.  Yet some policymakers continue to rig the rules so that the rich get richer, leaving the rest of us without the supports we all need in hard times — like help getting to the doctor or…
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 17/05/2025
Conditioning Medicaid and health care services on work is cruel, counterproductive, and defeats the whole purpose of having insurance Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
A Sankey diagram by Taylor Maggiacomo from the linked column by Matt Bruenig that shows the distribution of age and employment status of Medicaid recipients in 2022. In particular it shows that only 3% of Medicaid recipients were working age but not working long term
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
What else would you expect from a plan that takes away health care, cuts food assistance, dismantles progress on climate change, and increases the cost of college all to give the very rich big tax cuts.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/05/2025
After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
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Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust
Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“Whatever Republican policymakers may think, these policies aren’t popular with the public because they aren’t consistent with core American values, which include helping people when they fall on tough times and expecting wealthy people to pay their fair share.”
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
House Republicans have explicitly linked the cost-shift to "accountability" for 40+ states that use a federal option to expand access to SNAP for working families with kids, seniors & disabled people. It's just a deeply cynical ploy to force states to make cuts they don't want to get blamed for.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The always on point @nikitagill.bsky.social
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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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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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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yet another way the House Republican budget bill hides the true costs of its harmful cuts to health care and food assistance and bucks responsibiltiy.
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Wesley Tharpe @wesleytharpe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And what could the Republican #SNAP cuts cost in your state? We've got the new data for that: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Danny Mintz @dannymintz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The new GOP proposal for SNAP cuts would take food off the table of 7 year olds if their parents can't report enough work hours. When my kids were 7, they were playing foursquare, learning math facts, and being silly. Imagine getting LESS help to feed your kids if your boss cuts your hours.
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Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It’s deeply disappointing that House Republicans are planning to take food away from people who have fled their homes seeking safety in our nation and have completed rigorous processes to obtain refugee or asylum. Historically these humanitarian statuses have been supported by both parties.
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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
House Republicans’ plan penalizes states that use their own funds to cover people without a documented immigration status. This doubles those states' portions of expansion costs if they maintain their programs. State level estimates of potential cuts here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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House Republican Bill Would Cut Medicaid Funding to States Providing Own Health Coverage to People Who Are Undocumented | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage for millions of people and has driven the uninsured rate to record lows. Yet, more than 1.5 million uninsured adult...
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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
republicans are increasing the passthrough deduction from 20% to 22% republicans are LASER-FOCUSED on the important stuff: letting hedge funds, s corps, and private equity have an even bigger tax break for no reason
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Kris Cox @krisycox.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Upside down priorities, no surprise
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Kris Cox @krisycox.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The House bill would take the Child Tax Credit away from 4.5M U.S. citizen children - shameful.
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A $370 billion cut to Medicaid wouldn't go toward deficit reduction--it would finance the $350 billion tax break for millionaire owners of pass-through businesses that would go into the same freaking bill.
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Rachel I. Jacobson @rachelijacobson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Trump budget would eliminate LIHEAP, a $4B cut that would leave 6M ppl w/ very low incomes w/o critical assistance for energy bills. This after DOGE fired the entire staff on Apr 1, delaying release of $378M for cooling & emergency energy assistance.
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Dr. Jamie R. Riley (he/him) @drjrriley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
President Trumps's new budget reflects yet another effort to misrepresent programs that help support the most structurally marginalized members of our community as “woke.” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Replacing income taxes with tariffs is 1.) imaginary and 2.) the most regressive tax policy imaginable—huge tax increase for low-income families, huge tax cut for wealthy. www.americanprogressaction.org/article/comp...
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Meg Wiehe @megwiehe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
y'all, it's #TaxDay 🎊
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Speaker Johnson is again misleading Americans about the harmful impact of Republican proposals on low- and moderate-income families, shading his comments about Medicaid cuts and completely ignoring the plans to slash SNAP. 🧵
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