1/ A 🧵about @vp @KamalaHarris and #Care:. In 2017, when Harris joined the Senate, she immediately signed on as an original co-sponsor of the #FAMILYAct, to create a national #PaidLeave program. Some new senators sit on the sidelines, she didn't! .

RT @STATter911: Absurdity at its best: Despite all of this law enforcement and the National Guard in DC right now, a @dcfireems fire engine….

.@washingtonpost Why aren't you also covering this?.Thank you @nbcwashington. More than 120 federal officers patrol high-traffic areas of DC.

RT @ShawnFetta: Small business voices matter. Your voice matters. “Passing paid leave makes it possible and affordable for me as an emplo….

RT @tweetelissa: As the sun comes up on a DC focused on a $4.4 billion football stadium, this is the situation outside our city’s main publ….

"This isn’t just a rollback of wages — it’s a rollback of democracy. Voters spoke loudly and clearly. Twice. But instead of honoring the will of the people, council members sided with a corporate lobby that spreads lies and bankrolls influence.".

Great news out of California - more people are using #PaidLeave to care now that the program benefits make #TimeToCare affordable for workers and families!.

RT @HorriganCaitlin: Heartbreaking loss of talent and institutional commitment to human rights and women rights at the State Department 💔.

3 (end)/ Access to #PaidLeave should not be tied to current employment. Precarious jobs are everywhere -- and so are serious family care and health needs. This is why we need a social insurance program that's portable. #PaidLeaveForAll, regardless of your job.

2/ "Another employee learned they were fired a few weeks after their spouse was diagnosed with breast cancer. Those officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their personal situation.".

1/."One nearly 20-year veteran of the State Department on parental leave logged into her work email from home Friday morning to wait “for the hammer to drop,” she said. Her firing leaves their family with one income and a newborn to support, she said.

People are voting with their feet and their dollars due to abortion bans. Bans are bad economics for states looking to attract younger people and families -- and that's on top of the harm inflicted on people's health & safety.

😡."Nearly 12 million people would lose their health insurance under President Trump's "big, beautiful bill,". lead[ing] to more unmanaged chronic illnesses, higher medical debt and overcrowding of hospital emergency departments."

RT @jonfavs: Shocking how bad this bill is:. - 17 million would lose health care. - 30% higher electricity costs . - Millions of manufactur….

RT @jason_r_DC: Sen. @MikeCrapo is co-sponsoring an amendment that would effectively end Medicaid expansion in many states while Idahoans l….

RT @NoLieWithBTC: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis just started telling the truth hours after announcing his retirement: “What do I tell my constituent….

RT @JStein_WaPo: “No question — this is definitely the biggest cut. It’s the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever” — @l….

RT @JStein_WaPo: NEW: GOP tax bill includes largest cut to US safety net in decades, possibly ever . Medicaid faces ~18% cut; +10 million p….

Reminder: The CBO score of Build Back Better, which was highly popular with policies like #PaidLeave #ChildCare & #ElderCare & #Disabiity #care & climate & health innovations was $367b. This GOP bill costs $4.5 TRILLION for wealthy tax breaks & cuts to health & food benefits. 🙀.

RT @standorn: Based on new CBO findings the number of uninsured resulting from the Senate bill is nearly 17 million -- more than the 16 mil….

RT @MichaelSLinden: And the biggest loss of health insurance coverage in history. And the biggest cut to food assistance in history. And….