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Eric Michael Garcia

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

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Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNBC Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him [email protected]

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d

If you work for HHS and focus on autism, I would love to talk to you about how your job or research has been affected by RFK Jr. Message me on Signal at emgarcia.85.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Long short of it, you need young healthy people in the same pool as older and sick people otherwise, companies raise prices because it is more expensive to cover the later.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

So yes and no! The other issue, and others have explained this better, but the main problem is that without generous subsidies and no mandate, young healthy people who don’t get insurance through their employer will just go without insurance. So then who’s left buying it? Older and sick people.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

The book One Mighty and Irresistible Tide by Jia Lynn Yang chronicles the law’s history. Almost non-European immigrant owes their ability to come to the U.S. to that law.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Oh this isn’t for a story. I just want to let people nerd out!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Congress used to have more heterodox kooks. But as parties became more ideologically orthodox, there became less room for weirdos. Now we just partisans who are massive partisan firebrands….and Thomas Massie.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Overheard in the Senate, @kim.senate.gov and Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio were apparently set to play pickleball on Wednesday. Winner gets their preferred CR on the floor?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

*sigh* Correct

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Ironically, this might make Democrats more willing to normalize relations with Cuba. If they no longer have to court the Cuban-American vote, why not negotiate with Cuba?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

If you want to understand how Latinos can support a president who deports their primos, their Abuelas and suegras, read
@mikemadrid.bsky.social's The Latino Century
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-La...
and @paoramos.bsky.social's The Defectors
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741645...

The Latino Century

An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote—the largest ethnic voting group...

www.simonandschuster.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

What are some policies that nobody talks about or that flew under the radar but were low-key kind of successful?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Not off the top of my head. But worth exploring.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Very much so. And low pay means that staffers leave early and then move to K Street. Only the richest of the rich can staff on the Hill or just be poor.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

A large chunk. He's the first Republican in this century to win Miami-Dade County.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Yep! I believe the first Republican presidential candidate in this century to win Miami-Dade County. ¡Dios Mio!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Poll of Miami-Dade County finds:
-50% of residents oppose Trump ending temporary protected status for Venezuelans
-42% oppose Trump using military force to make Maduro step down as president
-60% oppose arresting undocumented immigrants with no criminal record
www.local10.com/news/local/2...

Miami-Dade voters voice opinions on key political issues in new countywide survey

A new Bendixen & Amandi International poll reveals sharp divides and strong opinions among Miami-Dade County voters on a range of political and local issues.

www.local10.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 6h

There are a lot of memorable photos of the current moment surfacing.

Here’s one from Portland now.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah. I don't honestly have an answer. The alternative can be horrible and arguably worse. I don't know how to fix it.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, they made their jobs useless. They COULD put safeguards, but have not.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed. I try to be judicious about whom I promote on here too.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

The filibuster gives Congress an incentive to work even less and then it delegates even more of its power into just a handful of legislators on Appropriations. But even now, its power has diminished significantly. More often, leadership controls policy more than individual committe chairs.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Oh! This goes to my larger theory: Congress really started to give up its powers during the Cold War and America becomes a super power when it believed the executive needed to act quickly to global crises. This leads to the legislators becoming lazy and giving up their power to do less work.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Oh I forgot that.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

This is my favorite part: Tom Cole and Susan Collins spent decades waiting to lead the Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate, respectively, only for Trump to render the committees absolutely useless.
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's because appropriations is such a boring and stodgy committee. Even its name "Appropriations" is an unsexy one. Most people think the Budget Committee is the important one (it's not really, except in reconciliation). But basically, approps is the big pot of money.

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