Budget Oversight Hearings are critical for our electeds to hear from COMMUNITY. The scheduling and timing on these hearings matter! 🧵.To deliver thoughtful testimony, working-class ppl deserve enough time to prepare & rearrange busy work & family schedules to attend hearings.1/

.@RFK4Community we’re at Palisades to say #NoBillionairesPlayground ! #HomesNotStadiums!

RT @EricaWilli: DC lost one of our most passionate and dedicated activists for ending poverty and inequality. Rest in peace, David ♥️.

We mourn the passing of David Schwartzman, beloved FBC Steering Committee member & lifelong activist for human rights, peace, racial and economic justice. David was a force to be reckoned with and always, always showed up to fight for liberation. His passing is a great loss.

RT @ScottGoldstein: Wild to see a table of DC council members, almost all who identify as Democrats, debating whether it's worth raising ta….

RT @JustRecoveryDC: This legislation will make the rich richer, & they're paying for it by slashing programs for the working-class. @iteptw….

Congress passed largest transfer of wealth upward & deepest cuts to the safety net, as we face the greatest social inequity since the Great Depression. The harms coming to DC residents are going to be devastating. #TaxWealthtoStopCuts @JustRecoveryDC.

RT @LegalAidDC: DC tenants are in crisis. Evictions are at a 10-year high, and the Mayor’s budget slashes ERAP to just $5M. Call on the Cou….

RT @charlesallen: No, this doesn’t make any sense. DC prohibited city contractors from giving political $ to the same people that approve t….

We're grateful to @BrianneKNadeau @charlesallen @CMZParker5 @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMFrumin for holding a robust discussion of progressive revenue raisers during the Budget Work Session!!. Appreciate your commitment to serve community & improve this #DCBudget!.@JustRecoveryDC.

RT @edlazere: Join this Zoom session for an in-depth analysis of the mayor's RFK billionaire giveaway, and how to get a better deal! https….

.@JustRecoveryDC @dcfpi. We really need CMs to be considering revenue raisers! This budget does not #ChooseUs and it devastates our safety net, just as the Fed’s are working on undermining it even more. We need revenue for the people!!.

This morning, advocates spoke with Councilmembers about the budget’s cuts to human needs that we rely on to survive, & the human suffering it will cause. We asked what commitments they’re prepared to make to our impacted communities. 💰 #ChooseUs Watch video below @councilofdc

RT @WashingtonDCPPC: We joined @DCFPI coalition of anti-poverty orgs @FairBudgetDC @LegalAidDC @miriamskitchen @CarecenDC @WeAreDCAction &….

RT @DCJusticeLab: @CM_McDuffie @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMRobertWhiteDC is 💯 right. The data a year from now will be a reflection of how the law w….

RT @DCJusticeLab: Notice that it is the former prosecutors on the Council who understand the seriousness of what it means to insert a presu….

RT @CMRobertWhiteDC: Spending time in #pretrialdetention is overwhelmingly negative for defendants and can lead to job loss, homelessness,….

RT @DCFPI: We're at the Wilson building, united to call on DC leaders to fix our budget and protect our cities most vulnerable residents. h….

RT @Brendan_Duke: DC has been entertaining devastating cuts to Medicaid/SNAP to partially offset the cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts.….

RT @ChuckCBPP: This chart sums up the unprecedented cruelty of the Senate Republican bill. It takes away healthcare and food from millions….

RT @EricaWilli: 17 million people will lose their health coverage. For tax cuts for the wealthiest. And that’s to say nothing of the ripple….