Jenna Williams
@JennaWilliamsUT
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formerly @utchildren, now back in school and just mouthing off here 🐝 🌈🧩 🫶
Boston, MA
Joined October 2022
New blog from @utchildren: With Income Tax Cuts, Property Taxes Fill the Gap The Legislature has raised required property tax contributions, reducing the share of school funding covered by income taxes. #utleg
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Believe it or not, I actually WANT my taxes to fund SNAP & Medicaid, not golf trips for millionaires & military tanks for war
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So basically no one will have health insurance anymore
With 2026 ACA plans officially live, we can now see the impact of Congress' failure to extend enhanced premium tax credits. A 64 YO couple in Morgantown with household income of $85k will see their premiums for the same plan increase by over $4,000 *per month*
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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”
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State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”
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If you’ve ever been to Delta, Utah, you may be surprised to learn that Topaz Museum is actually INCREDIBLE. We stopped on our way to St George last Thanksgiving 🧵
@sltrib For anyone interested: The Education Director of Topaz Museum will give an overview of the Topaz Internment Camp and its role during World War II. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2025 6:30-8:00 PM Clearfield Community Arts Center 2nd Floor Gala Room 140 Center St. Clearfield, Utah
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The cashier at Family Dollar should be able to pay rent and bills with their paycheck. That’s not radical to believe.
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KJP is an artifact of an age that looks recent on paper but feels prehistoric in practice—the age of pantsuits, the word “empowerment,” the musical “Hamilton,” cheap therapeutic entreaties to “work on yourself” and “lean in” to various corporate abysses.
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Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.
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every single dollar spent on SNAP generates around $1.50 to $1.89 in economic output. it actually helps the economy when our government feeds hungry people.
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My faith teaches me that food is lifegiving and meant to be shared. From the miracle of fishes and loaves to the Last Supper, we are called to feed and care for each other. The Trump administration prohibiting SNAP benefits is wrong. We should be fighting hunger, not causing it.
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Cuts to SNAP and a refusal to fund it during the shutdown, plus the increased cost of food because of his tariffs, means Americans will starve. We’ll never truly know how bad it gets, because Trump cancelled the report on hunger because he knows it will make him look bad.
The Trump admin says it won’t tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits if the shutdown continues, according to an agency memo That means roughly 42 mil Americans will not receive critical food assistance from SNAP in November
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Beshear notes he opposed a ban on transgender athletes in Kentucky in part because the only transgender athlete in all of Kentucky was a seventh grader banned from the middle school field hockey team she started with her friends
Bill Maher: You have this very high approval rating in your state, it's a conservative state, still you vetoed two gender bills. Gov. Andy Beshear: They were mean. They were meant to score political points or hurt me in 2023.
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the legislature's tax cuts at the state level are precisely what's driving the need to backfill lost revenue at the local level to keep schools afloat and provide adequate public safety. it's a bait and switch that abdicates the GOP supermajority of their responsibilities.
Everyone is rightly outraged at the near 20% property tax hike proposed by Salt Lake County under Jenny Wilson. But the Utah Constitution explicitly assigns the power of taxation to the Legislature, which then delegates that authority to local governments. Governor Cox could
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This is a moment when the utah legislature who “doesn’t want the federal government’s help” could do something to support Utah families. They have a rainy day fund…..
JUST IN: Utah's Department of Workforce Services says SNAP benefits won't be issued in November because of the shutdown. The federal program serves 86,000 Utah families @abc4utah
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The U.S. deported a teenage high school girl to Guatemala, a country she does not know, along with her mother who suffered from a medical condition. Her mother passed away soon after being deported. Truly heart-wrenching and bleak stuff.
absolutely heartbreaking
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I have been haunted by this all day and I could say a lot of things but it’s just insanely sad like do yall understand how deeply immoral this is.
BREAKING: Payments for food stamps will not be issued in November because of the federal government shutdown, the Utah Department of Workforce Services announced Wednesday. https://t.co/gmhpNIo9iS
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I don't usually agree with Welcome PAC but this is spot on, and is why @runforsomething is investing in expanding the map into ID, UT, NE, & IA (along with 8 other states) as part of our Battle Up plan.
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The Utah Department of Workforce Services said that SNAP funds will not be issued in November should the government remain shutdown. This will impact 86 thousand households in the state who rely on SNAP for fresh food. They said that not only will funds not be refreshed,
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Wow, big day in Utah for Jenna’s policy areas. I’m back y’all
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Democratic leaders have got to find a way to talk about taxes. Dems have failed to connect the dots on what taxes fund and failed to show constituents how government CAN work.
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Truth is taxation and general disdain for tax increases also makes it really hard for counties to make incremental rate increases over time. I know a lot of Utah’s counties have waited too long to do these increases.
I did a deep dive into Utah’s property tax structure here: https://t.co/GjtrXSiK9V Utah’s truth in taxation law has unfortunately also made counties procrastinate their needed tax rate increases. But ultimately relying more on property taxes is not equitable.
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If you oppose county property taxes increases, please think about the problem holistically. Oppose the Legislature’s annual tax cut.
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