First Focus Campaign for Children
@Campaign4Kids
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First Focus Campaign for Children is a bipartisan child advocacy group dedicated to improving public policy for kids. Sister org @First_Focus. #InvestInKids
Washington, D.C.
Joined October 2010
The Education Department gave another agency power to distribute its money. It hasn't gone well. - POLITICO https://t.co/dyMSnlmMM5 And who is harmed most by all this chaos and disaster??? Our nation’s youngest citizens.
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In culture war backlash, pro public school candidates sweep school boards - POLITICO https://t.co/znROyz57NN We have been making this point. If Democrats are silent, then culture wars can frame the debate. Be for children, public education, child health, cutting child poverty,
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DHS is spending billions of dollars ripping families apart and disappearing hardworking people from our streets instead of things like combating child abuse, trafficking, and terrorism. https://t.co/U408Kj3qaF
nytimes.com
Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism.
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RFK Jr is censoring doctors at the Indian Health Service. “Officials have deemed terms like ‘immunizations’ and ‘vaccines’ risky ‘buzzwords’ that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.” @AmerMedicalAssn @AmerAcadPeds #Medsky
Indian Health Service Vaccine Messaging Is Shifting Under RFK Jr. — ProPublica https://t.co/JABVVYSp4M
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So the Administration wants to gut the one agency focused on children and their education. This will do enormous harm to low-income children, children with disabilities, children of color, girls who benefitted from Title IX, rural children, children of military personnel, native
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."@atrupar
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I’m a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong,
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Both Pro-Life Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood have registered in support of a bill to expand Medicaid coverage for new low-income moms. Despite the bipartisan unity, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says, “We already have enough welfare in Wisconsin.” https://t.co/arYJVdCVe4
propublica.org
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving...
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16 million kids rely on SNAP for more than just nutrition: it improves their health, educational outcomes, and stability at home. The shutdown showed us what happens when kids go without it, and why Congress has to avert deep cuts taking effect soon. 1/
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New Bill Would Undo Cuts Designed to Let Kids to Go Hungry Roughly 4-in-10 participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are
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Let's be clear: this is not necessary. It's red tape designed to make it harder for people to get their next meal. Kids, seniors, and veterans will slip through the cracks and go hungry. That's a choice.
politico.com
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
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Sec. McMahon says she’ll “unofficially” dismantle the Dept. of Education from within. That’s not bold - that’s an abuse of authority. Only Congress can make that call, and we must step in to protect students and the integrity of our education system. https://t.co/TUk59F9t3T
washingtonpost.com
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
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As always, I agree with @joshcowenMI but would argue that the problem goes beyond public education, as Democrats have become the party of neglect on the broader issues of children and it is to their detriment. https://t.co/Yw2MRf1fyg In their silence, culture war proponents have
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@elonmusk If a nation claims to care about babies, then its public policies must match that stated concern. Its public policies certainly can’t do harm to people having babies or the babies themselves. For example… ❌ The just passed Child Tax Credit in the U.S. specifically includes
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The multiude of scandals that institutions have been involved in with regard to children over the years desperately call for the creation of an independent Children’s Commissioner, as @RepMcGarvey has proposed. —>
Twitter/X is obsessed with playing the “whataboutism” game over the Epstein files. Missing is that the wealthy and institutions have a long history of abusing children (girls and boys) and refusing to do the right thing by kids. They almost always choose to cover it up. (1)
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Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities | @First_Focus on Children https://t.co/WqBAMl6hSF by @chadderr @lilyklam_ed
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Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and
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Democrats need a ‘Children’s Platform’ - Melissa D. Aguirre and Dave A. Chokshi - AJC https://t.co/KDCHTkEPBA
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The Trump Admin's shameful attacks on kids with disabilities are happening on every front: legislation (OBBB), regs, and RIFs. The Social Security Administration's new proposed rule to limit SSI eligibility is yet another example. 1/
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Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and
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Kids’ legislative agenda sent to lawmakers https://t.co/8dI132MPSE
paulsvalleydailydemocrat.com
In October, the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) held our Fall Forum, a conference which annually assembles delegates for sharing ideas and brainstorming solutions for the many issues...
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And, children don’s have a PAC, so they are often left out in the cold by both parties. We must demand better,
NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.
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