I wish I were making this up. This is the version of the #GOPTaxScam the Senate votes on tonight. Handwritten text up and down the margins.

There’s still time to repeal these cuts. That's what the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act, introed today, would do. Head to https://t.co/uQaPJJZd4p to tell your Member of Congress to support it, and the 16 million kids who rely on SNAP. 7/7

Without SNAP, we know kids are hungrier and have a harder time concentrating in school. Their test scores suffer. They're likelier to develop chronic health conditions, and they're even likelier to see neglect or abuse at home. It doesn't have to be this way! 6/

When states are hit with this, we’ll likely see outcomes similar to what happened during the shutdown: families faced w impossible choices to keep food on tables, food banks stretched beyond limits, state budgets that can’t cover all the critical programs kids need to thrive. 5/

Why does that matter? It’s a preview of what’s to come next year, thanks to the "One Big Beautiful Bill." That’s when the largest cuts to SNAP in history – $200 billion over 10 years – start to take effect and states will be left to pick up the tab. 4/

States found out what it would be like if they had to run SNAP without the support they’re used to from the federal govt. It didn’t go well. They had to move money from other critical programs to fill huge gaps left by the federal govt’s failure to cover Nov. SNAP payments. 3/

While SNAP benefits were interrupted during the shutdown, the whole system was in chaos. Families had to choose: food or rent? Food or diapers? Food or gas? Food banks tried to step up but they were stretched to the brim – so much so that many had to turn families away. 2/

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/

Huge news here. This plan went so far that it could have affected tens of thousands of children, on top of more than a million older workers and their retirement security and the health care they need. Glad to see SSA changing course.

Children with disabilities have been left behind for far too long by existing federal policy, and these attacks further hurt them at a time when policymakers should be dedicating more support helping them reach their full potential. 8/

And of course, all kids remain in the Administration's crosshairs. Case in point: their effort this month to go all the way to the Supreme Court to deprive 16 million kids of food to withhold SNAP funding they’d earlier been compelled to release during the government shutdown. 7/

This comes on heels of OBBB, which cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid/CHIP. Together they cover about 2-in-5 kids w special health care needs. Schools rely on Medicaid to cover IDEA-mandated supports, which could force elimination of other programs when Medicaid funding goes. 6

In addition to these SSI changes, the Trump Admin's RIFs also gutted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, responsible for IDEA, the key law protecting rights of students w disabilities. Leaves office less able to enforce protections for kid in schools. 5/

This change in regulatory policy is a step backward. Lawmakers are building bipartisan support to update SSI's outdated eligibility rules for the first time in 40 yrs, so the rules stop punishing people for saving $$ and working if they're able. That's the right direction. 4/

SSA proposes to make the eligibility rules even MORE complicated and complex - forcing beneficiaries to navigate more red tape and an agency that's already stretched thin to devote more bandwidth to administer the program that could be committed to higher priority needs. 3/

SSI is a lifeline for kids w disabilities whose families have limited income/resources, helping cover extra costs like medical care, therapies, adaptive equipment, and transportation. This new rule could hurt as many as 100,000 of those kids, by making it harder to qualify. 2/

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/

To translate this jargon: after being ordered by a lower court to use funds Congress has already made available to pay Nov SNAP benefits, the Trump Admin is now going all the way to the Supreme Court to deprive 16 million kids of food. Unhinged levels of cruelty here.

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

The Trump Admin must release the SNAP contingency fund today so that 16 million kids do not start going hungry tomorrow. It’s that simple.

.@Brendan_Duke on @cspanwj: This isn't a debate about Medicaid reform or deficit reduction—it’s about financing tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy by stripping health coverage and food assistance from millions of Americans.