
Ty Jones Cox
@TyJonesCox
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Advocate, Mom, Wife, VP of Food Assistance @CenteronBudget. Focused on racial, gender & economic justice & believes everyone should have food. Also on BlueSky
Washington, DC
Joined February 2017
RT @Katie_Bergh: People who face barriers to securing steady employment or who live in an area with few job opportunities still face those….
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RT @WCTharpe: “Even if we cut every single thing in the state, we don’t have the money to backfill all these cuts.”.
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Policymakers should invest in the health of our youngest children by adhering to the longstanding bipartisan commitment to fully fund #WIC in 2026.
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The House bill also starts the process laid out in President Trump’s budget of slashing the #WIC fruit and vegetable benefit, raising the risk that our youngest children in families w/ low incomes don’t get enough healthy food to eat.
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Yesterday, Senate appropriators approved their bill to set 2026 #WIC funding. In stark contrast to the House bill, the Senate version maintains the nearly 30-year commitment to providing enough funding to serve all eligible applicants with the full science-based food benefit.
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RT @ParrottCBPP: Congressional Republicans and the President now own its impact. Unfortunately, it is their constituents who will pay the p….
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It is quite unsettling to watch House Republicans cheer for a bill that will take health insurance from millions, increase hunger for so many & drive up deficits. This day will not be forgotten.
House & Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families' food & health care costs, increase poverty & hunger, take health coverage away from millions of ppl & drive up deficits - all to give costly tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations.
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RT @ShannonCBPP: The harm will be real. "Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to M….
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RT @KFF: Should the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ reach President Trump’s desk, “it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for….
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RT @MichaelSLinden: Let me explain what's going on here. CBO does say that bill's onerous paperwork provisions will result in 5 million p….
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RT @Katie_Bergh: CBO has indicated 900,000 low-income adults aged 55 through 64 will lose food assistance under the expansion of SNAP's har….
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RT @Katie_Bergh: The Freedom Caucus is mad that 800,000 kids would be at risk of having their food benefits cut dramatically under the Sena….
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