Chad Bolt
@chadderr.bsky.social
Senior VP, Economic Security @firstfocus.bsky.social. Let’s give all kids a fair shot.
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/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...
Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities
Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and
firstfocus.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...
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.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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.
SNAP helps keep 16 million kids from going hungry. USDA has options to keep SNAP funded through November while the government is still shut down, but so far it is deliberately not using them. www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.booker.senate.gov
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
SNAP helps keep 16 million kids from going hungry. USDA has options to keep SNAP funded through November while the government is still shut down, but so far it is deliberately not using them. www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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With inflation on everyone’s minds, it’s a good time to recognize one of Social Security’s most valuable features: Its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be announced tomorrow. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With inflation on everyone’s minds, it’s a good time to recognize one of Social Security’s most valuable features: Its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be announced tomorrow. 🧵
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Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Admin is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance by up to 20%--which would be the largest cut ever. 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers
Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security...
www.cbpp.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Admin is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance by up to 20%--which would be the largest cut ever. 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Biden IRS made it free and simple for you to file your taxes directly. The Trump Admin is making you go back to TurboTax.
Shameful.
Shameful.
Direct File, the IRS's own tax program, is borderline miraculous, @saahildesai.bsky.social wrote last year. But now its future is in doubt.
The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax
Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Biden IRS made it free and simple for you to file your taxes directly. The Trump Admin is making you go back to TurboTax.
Shameful.
Shameful.
Yeah, turns out voters across the political spectrum don't like it when you take away their health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Ex-GOP lawmaker: Medicaid cuts politically risky
Former GOP Rep. Larry Bucshon, who retired from Congress in January, is cautioning his Republican colleagues that cutting Medicaid could be politically perilous.
www.politico.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yeah, turns out voters across the political spectrum don't like it when you take away their health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
They are standing between seniors and the Social Security benefits they've earned, they're doing it right out in the open, and it is to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Keep saying it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service
Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
They are standing between seniors and the Social Security benefits they've earned, they're doing it right out in the open, and it is to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Keep saying it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid. They’re lying.
March 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid. They’re lying.
Cuts to Social Security are not a far-off possibility in the future, they’re happening *right now* — in the form of closed field offices and terrible service. This paves the way for further cuts later.
Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...
Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...
Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over Billionaires
Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo...
www.familiesoverbillionaires.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cuts to Social Security are not a far-off possibility in the future, they’re happening *right now* — in the form of closed field offices and terrible service. This paves the way for further cuts later.
Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...
Why? To pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. www.familiesoverbillionaires.org/republicans-...
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READ: The GOP budget plan Republicans put in motion would slash Medicaid and Medicare -- but they aren't stopping there.
Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts - Families Over Billionaires
Republicans Are Cutting Your Social Security to Pay for More Billionaire Tax Cuts By Chad Bolt and Alex Lawson House Republicans are hard at work on their number one priority: deliver more tax cuts fo...
www.familiesoverbillionaires.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
READ: The GOP budget plan Republicans put in motion would slash Medicaid and Medicare -- but they aren't stopping there.
“Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.”
This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCm
This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately/
t.co
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.”
This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCm
This employee nails it: the Republican effort to slash Social Security to pay for billionaire tax cuts is well underway. t.co/h6JIXIiNCm
House Republicans right now, waiting for Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham to work it out on the remix
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
House Republicans right now, waiting for Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham to work it out on the remix
Trump and Republicans rn
February 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Trump and Republicans rn
The blunt approach to revenue that Trump is taking with these tariffs -- to pay for tax cuts for billionaires! -- is one that the federal government abandoned more than 100 years ago precisely because it was so unfair to the average American and their family.
February 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The blunt approach to revenue that Trump is taking with these tariffs -- to pay for tax cuts for billionaires! -- is one that the federal government abandoned more than 100 years ago precisely because it was so unfair to the average American and their family.
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New collaboration from @chadderr.bsky.social and I (no longer just collaborating in the Senate!) laying out the tradeoffs in the emerging House GOP tax bill.
For example--they are using cuts to Medicaid to help finance tax cuts to the top 2 percent of Americans.
For example--they are using cuts to Medicaid to help finance tax cuts to the top 2 percent of Americans.
January 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New collaboration from @chadderr.bsky.social and I (no longer just collaborating in the Senate!) laying out the tradeoffs in the emerging House GOP tax bill.
For example--they are using cuts to Medicaid to help finance tax cuts to the top 2 percent of Americans.
For example--they are using cuts to Medicaid to help finance tax cuts to the top 2 percent of Americans.
Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs for the American people, but their tax bill is poised to do just the opposite - all so they can give more tax cuts to billionaires. @brendanvduke.bsky.social and I are out with a new column today, explaining: www.americanprogress.org/article/4-wa... 1/6
4 Ways House Republicans’ Emerging Tax Package Would Put Billionaires Over Families
The emerging House Republican tax package would raise working- and middle-class families’ costs to shower enormous tax giveaways on the wealthiest Americans.
www.americanprogress.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs for the American people, but their tax bill is poised to do just the opposite - all so they can give more tax cuts to billionaires. @brendanvduke.bsky.social and I are out with a new column today, explaining: www.americanprogress.org/article/4-wa... 1/6
Given that Tillis played a huge role in tanking a bipartisan Child Tax Credit agreement less than 6 months ago, not holding my breath here.
👀 GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is proposing a different idea: Republicans break off the child tax credit and SALT portions of the bill from reconciliation and negotiate a separate bipartisan deal with Democrats on those issues, plus extending ACA funding. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Mike Johnson eyes April deadline to pass one big MAGA bill through the House, but GOP senators are skeptical
House and Senate Republicans still disagree on the best strategy to advance Trump's policy priorities on the border, energy and taxes. A recent Trump-GOP meeting failed to resolve it.
www.nbcnews.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Given that Tillis played a huge role in tanking a bipartisan Child Tax Credit agreement less than 6 months ago, not holding my breath here.
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A new U.S. Treasury analysis shows that Congress doesn't have to extend tax cuts for high-income households if it wants to extend tax cuts for low- and middle-income families.
Cutting taxes for the rich is a deliberate policy choice.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
Cutting taxes for the rich is a deliberate policy choice.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
January 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A new U.S. Treasury analysis shows that Congress doesn't have to extend tax cuts for high-income households if it wants to extend tax cuts for low- and middle-income families.
Cutting taxes for the rich is a deliberate policy choice.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
Cutting taxes for the rich is a deliberate policy choice.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
This is the Republican blueprint to pay for tax cuts for billionaires: slashing Medicare and Medicaid, erasing climate progress by repealing IRA clean energy credits, cutting assistance for hungry people. When they show you who they are, believe them.
January 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is the Republican blueprint to pay for tax cuts for billionaires: slashing Medicare and Medicaid, erasing climate progress by repealing IRA clean energy credits, cutting assistance for hungry people. When they show you who they are, believe them.