The Senate bill would kick 11.8 million people off their health insurance by cutting health coverage over $1 trillion

To give sense of how much harsher Senate bill's #Medicaid cuts are than House-passed bill's draconian cuts, new CBO scores show Senate has $1.02T/10 yrs in gross Medicaid/CHIP cuts (before interactions) compared to House bill's $863.4B in gross cuts (before interactions). www.cbo.gov/publication/...

The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.

I’m not typically a fan of cost benefit analysis in valuing life years gained or lost. But here the numbers are too big to ignore. $8.2 trillion of life years lost over 25 years vs a US budget savings of $500 billion over the same period. These NIH cuts will cost us dearly.

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?

This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

A friend (and disgruntled former HHS staffer) just summed up the situation at HHS as best as I've heard so far:

"They are just systematically committed to ruining anyone’s ability to understand anything."

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.