Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #HandsOff
Most recents (9)
đ¨ đ¨ Just months after giving $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, House Republicans just unveiled a radical Farm Bill that would dismantle the nationâs main source of nutrition assistance for struggling workers and families.
Hereâs how.
(THREAD)
Hereâs how.
(THREAD)
The bill is a thinly disguised ploy to take food away from struggling workers and families in the name of âhelping people work.â NEWS FLASH: Making someone hungrier wonât help them find work any faster. 2/x
Jobless workers are already subject to a harsh 3-month time limit on SNAP in most parts of the country unless they are working 20 hours a week. The bill would make these time limits even harsher in a whole slew of ways. 3/x
Tonight, Donald Trump signed an executive order that sums up how little he understands about poverty in America.
Hereâs why.
(THREAD)
Hereâs why.
(THREAD)
Millions of Americans are working 2+ jobs to get by.
Half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
But Trumpâs plan for âeconomic mobilityâ is to take healthcare, food & housing away from struggling folks just months after giving huge tax cuts to millionaires.
2/x
Half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
But Trumpâs plan for âeconomic mobilityâ is to take healthcare, food & housing away from struggling folks just months after giving huge tax cuts to millionaires.
2/x
Trump says his EO is about âwelfare reform.â But letâs get one thing clear. WE DONâT HAVE WELFARE IN AMERICA ANYMORE. Congress eliminated it in 1996. Whatâs left of Americaâs tattered safety net is meager at best and so, so very far from enough to live on. Letâs take a look. 3/x
Today, March 1st, a minimum-wage worker catches up to what she made in 2009--the last time Congress raised the poverty-level minimum wage (as my colleague @rwest817 shows in new @amprog analysis) americanprogress.org/issues/povertyâŚ
In 2018, a worker earning $7.25/hr must work an extra 41 daysâmore than 2 additional months!âjust to earn the same amount as she did in a single year when the federal minimum wage was last increased. 2/x
As a result, a full-time minimum-wage worker will lose a staggering $2,370 in purchasing power this year.
That's more than ***47 times*** the average tax cut she gets under the #TrumpTaxScam. 3/x
That's more than ***47 times*** the average tax cut she gets under the #TrumpTaxScam. 3/x
Trump's Robin Hood in reverse budget would be devastating for nearly every community across the U.S.
Here are just a few ways the #TrumpBudget would hurt:
Women
People with disabilities
Rural Americans
Communities of color
Children
Older Americans
LGBTQ individuals
Veterans
Here are just a few ways the #TrumpBudget would hurt:
Women
People with disabilities
Rural Americans
Communities of color
Children
Older Americans
LGBTQ individuals
Veterans
1. WOMEN
Women make up two-thirds of adults on Medicaidâwhich Trump calls for ending as we know it, leaving millions of women without health coverage. And he'd defund Planned Parenthood, cutting off access to family planning & well-woman care.
MORE: cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploadâŚ
Women make up two-thirds of adults on Medicaidâwhich Trump calls for ending as we know it, leaving millions of women without health coverage. And he'd defund Planned Parenthood, cutting off access to family planning & well-woman care.
MORE: cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploadâŚ
2. PEOPLE W/DISABILITIES
Trumpâs deep Medicaid cuts jeopardize health care & vital services for 15M people w/disabilities. His budget also slashes #SocialSecurity disability benefits, housing for PWD--and even closes the Limb Loss Resource Center.
MORE: cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploadâŚ
Trumpâs deep Medicaid cuts jeopardize health care & vital services for 15M people w/disabilities. His budget also slashes #SocialSecurity disability benefits, housing for PWD--and even closes the Limb Loss Resource Center.
MORE: cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploadâŚ
The #TrumpBudget is more than numbers on a page. It lays out an agenda to strip away peopleâs rights and health care. #HandsOff
Hereâs what the plan would do. [Thread]
Hereâs what the plan would do. [Thread]
Gut both the Affordable Care Act and the #Medicaid program â the insurance plan for one in five women of reproductive age. For these women, Medicaid makes the difference between access to basic care, like birth control â or doing without.
Threaten 2.4 million peopleâs access to birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, and other preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
Know how Social Security and Medicare are referred to as the âthird railâ â because cutting them is understood to be political suicide?
Well, it turns out itâs not just Social Security & Medicare.
Follow along for details on a new poll the GOP should pay close attention to. 1/x
Well, it turns out itâs not just Social Security & Medicare.
Follow along for details on a new poll the GOP should pay close attention to. 1/x
Trump and Congressional Republicans learned the hard way last year how immensely popular Medicaid is, when in many ways it saved the ACA.
New polling shows a whopping **80% of Americans** oppose cutting Medicaid.
2/x
New polling shows a whopping **80% of Americans** oppose cutting Medicaid.
2/x
And itâs not just Medicaid folks donât want to see cut.
Americans overwhelminglyâand across party linesâoppose President Trump and Speaker Ryanâs proposals to slash nutrition assistance, affordable housing, disability benefits, energy assistance, and more.
3/x
Americans overwhelminglyâand across party linesâoppose President Trump and Speaker Ryanâs proposals to slash nutrition assistance, affordable housing, disability benefits, energy assistance, and more.
3/x
THREAD: Today Trump admin invited states to undermine Medicaid
& kick millions off coverage. Hereâs a few ways to tell Trump/GOP so-called âwork requirementsâ (aka cuts) arenât really about helping people work OR stay healthy 1/
& kick millions off coverage. Hereâs a few ways to tell Trump/GOP so-called âwork requirementsâ (aka cuts) arenât really about helping people work OR stay healthy 1/
Ripping away health coverage doesnât help people find jobs. It actually makes it harder to search for work: americanprogress.org/issues/poverty⌠2/
As @rebeccavallas notes, Trump admin admits fed Medicaid funds canât be used to address pplâs barriers to work! 3/
BREAKING: Trump has officially ended Medicaid as we know it, by allowing states to take health insurance away from people who can't find a job.
(Please RT to spread the word.) 1/
(Please RT to spread the word.) 1/
With the GOP unable so far to repeal the ACA and destroy Medicaid through legislation, Trump's decided he's done waiting for Congress. 2/
According to a letter to state Medicaid directors, states will now be allowed to strip most working-age people of Medicaid if they aren't working or participating in qualifying activities for a set number of hours per week. 3/
LANGUAGE ALERT: Slashing Medicaid, Medicare, nutrition, housing, disability benefits, and more isnât âwelfare reformâ any more giving huge tax cuts to billionaires and wealthy corporations is âtax reform.â
(Commence thread.)
(Commence thread.)
1. For starters, the definition of âreformâ is to make changes in order to *improve* something.
What Donald Trump and Speaker Ryan are calling for (to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations) is huge cuts that will hobble essential programs.
What Donald Trump and Speaker Ryan are calling for (to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations) is huge cuts that will hobble essential programs.
2. Donât take my word for it â just look at their budgets, which tell us exactly what they want to slash and how much.
For example:
âď¸ $1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicaid
âď¸ $197 billion in cuts to nutrition assistance
âď¸ $72 billion in cuts to Social Security disability
For example:
âď¸ $1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicaid
âď¸ $197 billion in cuts to nutrition assistance
âď¸ $72 billion in cuts to Social Security disability
