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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

Bower’s so-called “growth agenda” is not in line with what research and real life show us. Investing in health care, child care, economic security, and supporting higher, equitable wages are the ingredients to a stronger and certainly more equitable economy. equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... 8/8

The promise of equitable and pro-growth tax reform

The next president and the incoming 119th Congress will have a rare opportunity in 2025 to enact true pro-growth tax reform.

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can DC pay for programs that help people get by? By not handing limited public resources over to billionaires and by asking more of District residents set to get huge tax cuts from Congress’ tax plan. itep.org/trump-megabi... 7/

Trump Megabill Will Give $117 Billion in Tax Cuts to the Top 1% in 2026. How Much In Your State?

The predominant feature of the tax and spending bill working its way through Congress is a massive tax cut for the richest 1 percent — a $114 billion benefit to the wealthiest people in the country in...

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

It may not be as flashy as a deal with the NFL, but the benefits are real and actually make DC a place people can stay and grow. www.dcfpi.org/all/expandin... 6/

Expanding Child Care Subsidies Would Boost the District’s Economy

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

A strong safety net also grows the economy over the long-term by supporting better life outcomes for kids in low income families, helping them do better and go further in school, and work and earn more as adults. www.dcfpi.org/all/a-child-...

A Child Tax Credit Would Reduce Child Poverty, Strengthen Basic Income, and Advance Racial Justice in DC

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

The safety net contributes to economic activity in other ways that support jobs, like when families take their child tax credit dollars and use them at local businesses. Or when a caretaker has access to affordable child care and can reliably go to school or work. 4/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

The irony of course is that the safety net—in addition to meeting basic human needs—also helps our economy. Health coverage helps support the 73,000 jobs in DC’s health care sector, for example, and it keeps workers healthy and productive. 3/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

Is health care a nice-to-have now? I wonder if the mayor asked any of the cancer patients or people with chronic illness about to get kicked off of the DC Healthcare Alliance because of her budget cuts. wamu.org/story/25/06/...

Thousands of D.C. residents could lose their health insurance through budget cuts

Cuts to the DC Healthcare Alliance and Medicaid in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget could disrupt health care for thousands of residents. Immigrants and low-income residents, including those with...

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 9

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/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

We don't have to address fiscal challenges through cuts to health and human services, and we should reject plans that roll back our commitments as a District to equity and inclusion and our efforts to lead the nation in policies that help achieve that. 7/7

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

We have all of the evidence in the world—from real life work in DC’s communities to research and analysis—showing us that investing health care, child care, housing, cash strategies and work supports, are the pathways to ending poverty and achieving equitable growth. 6/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

We have the choice to raise revenue to weather this storm, particularly as DC’s wealthiest residents stand to benefit from the tax cuts advancing through Congress. 5/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

It proposes damaging cuts to our system of health coverage—one that made us 2nd in the nation for insurance coverage—particularly harming those ineligible for Medicaid. 51st.news/dc-health-in...

Thousands in D.C. could lose health coverage under budget plan

Under financial and political pressure, the mayor is moving to roll back public coverage for low-income and undocumented residents.

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

Instead of leaning into what we know works, the DC budget proposal being debated reverts to failed policies like work requirements and eligibility redeterminations, and it carves enormous holes into our local safety net. 3/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

We face a storm unlike any we’ve seen before. The Senate just passed a bill that guts essential pieces of the nation’s social safety net. And it is precisely for that reason that we call on our elected leaders to meet the moment. 2/

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jul 2

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. 🧵

DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · Jun 24

"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."

ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Daniel Payne @danielpayne.bsky.social · Jun 23

Scoop: Senate Republicans are considering a new provision that would further cut Medicaid funding in the OBBB

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.

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 19

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LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack

Go OFF, Kathy Hochul!!! All local politicians, take note. This is not the time for status quo speeches and decorum. This is the time for truth telling and identifying those responsible.

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · Jun 17

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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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · Jun 16

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...

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ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 12

It's a cruel plan, again to give tax breaks to the wealthiest. We haven't seen the Senate tax plan yet, but the House plan would give DC's top 1% (those w/hhld inc over $1.3m) an annual avg tax cut of $47k and there's no reason to think the Senate tax plan won't be similarly egregious /End

ericawilli.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social · Jun 12

On the line is the well-being of 141,000 DC residents, half of these households are in Ws 7&8, 47% have a member w/disability, 43% have children, 37% have older adults. 9/

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