Meg Wiehe
@megwiehe.bsky.social
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
👇👇👇 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.
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
👇👇👇 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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I mean, this is what non-doctor, non-scientist, non-public health expert RFK Jr has decided to toss in the trash bin. It's infuriating.
(Screen shot link from NIH website ... for now pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/ )
(Screen shot link from NIH website ... for now pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/ )
August 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I mean, this is what non-doctor, non-scientist, non-public health expert RFK Jr has decided to toss in the trash bin. It's infuriating.
(Screen shot link from NIH website ... for now pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/ )
(Screen shot link from NIH website ... for now pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/ )
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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...
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...
www.cbpp.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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...
@nikitagill.bsky.social providing inspiration on this dark day
July 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@nikitagill.bsky.social providing inspiration on this dark day
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It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/r8lULu
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.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
July 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
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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...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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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 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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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.
June 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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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 ⬇️
June 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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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...
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...
www.cbpp.org
June 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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 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.
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...
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...
www.cbpp.org
June 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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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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.
June 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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.
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👇
NEW REPORT: House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, now in the Senate, would shift major new costs to the state- & local-level, paving the way for harmful cuts to food assistance, health care, & other services like education. Here’s the 3 top things to know:🧵
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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“Millions of Americans will lose their health coverage, local hospital systems will face unprecedented financial strain, state operational costs will spike."
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May 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“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...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“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.
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.
May 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“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.
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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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.
Spoiler alert: A lot of people would lose the health coverage & food assistance they need.
New state fact sheets show how the House Rs' extreme budget plan would cut food & health care for millions while delivering bigger tax breaks to the wealth — forcing families, veterans, seniors, & others in every state to bear higher costs & more red tape. www.cbpp.org/research/sta...
House Republicans’ Extreme Budget Plan Fails Families, Children, and Communities | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The House Republican reconciliation bill imposes substantial new costs on state and local governments that would be hard for them to shoulder even when times are good, let alone now with their finance...
www.cbpp.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
Spoiler alert: A lot of people would lose the health coverage & food assistance they need.
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.
NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this first-of-its-kind national voucher plan. Here's what they said.
9 things to know about the big, private-school voucher plan in Republicans' tax bill
NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this first-of-its-kind national voucher plan. Here's what they said.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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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.
May 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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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.
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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"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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
May 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
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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
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…
ncbudget.org
May 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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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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...
Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
May 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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...
Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
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.
May 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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.