@ericawilli.bsky.social
Working for racial, gender, and economic justice thru fiscal policy @DCFPI. Posts are my own.
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🚨 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!
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!
January 30, 2026 at 3:11 PM
🚨 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!
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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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!
DC residents & state/national partners--please make the calls below!
🚨 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!
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!
January 30, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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!
DC residents & state/national partners--please make the calls below!
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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...
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.
19thnews.org
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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...
“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
On this, I agree with Mitt Romney. #taxjustice
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“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
On this, I agree with Mitt Romney. #taxjustice
www.cbpp.org/press/statem... Congressional Republicans and President Trump Fail to Address Affordability; Health Care Costs Set to Spike for Millions
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...
www.cbpp.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
www.cbpp.org/press/statem... Congressional Republicans and President Trump Fail to Address Affordability; Health Care Costs Set to Spike for Millions
“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.”
Trump calling Somali immigrants “garbage” shows that he sees little risk in open expressions of racism, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“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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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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
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.
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/
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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/
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. 🧵
Leaders from 20 local anti-poverty organizations, including DCFPI, sent a letter to Council to raise alarm about the proposed DC budget and the long-lasting harm it will cause to the poorest residents. www.dcfpi.org/nonprofitlea...
Anti-Poverty Leaders' Letter to the DC Council: "We are Deeply Alarmed"
We, the undersigned, write to you as leaders of long-standing organizations that work to meet the needs of DC residents with low incomes.
www.dcfpi.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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. 🧵
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.
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/...
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
www.cbo.gov
June 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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.
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...
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
ldi.upenn.edu
June 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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"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."
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"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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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.
Scoop: Senate Republicans are considering a new provision that would further cut Medicaid funding in the OBBB
www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/g...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/g...
Senate Republicans discuss new way to cut Medicaid in Trump’s tax bill
The proposal would sharply limit federal spending on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion.
www.statnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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.
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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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)
June 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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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...
www.finance.senate.gov
June 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
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🧵
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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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.
June 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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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
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
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...
loom.ly
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
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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!
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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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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
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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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.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
Republicans have a new talking point for gutting Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires even more tax cuts: “We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
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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...
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...
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...
rooseveltinstitute.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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...
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...
