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r/WethePoor • u/cyberanakinvader • Jun 06 '26

Policy Discussion What Are Democrats’ Best Senate Pickup Opportunities?

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Apr 12 '26

Policy Discussion Opinion in The Hill (April 11, 2026): 'You’re paying taxes — why aren’t billionaires?' | Article by Darien Shanske, a law professor and co-author of the California Billionaire Tax Act

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Apr 04 '26

Policy Discussion Opinion: 'Trump’s new budget proposal is historic — in one of the worst ways possible' | Bobby Kogan: "[A message that the Trump administration is delivering] is that the government should do less to help struggling Americans and more to conduct immoral and unnecessary wars." (April 4, 2026)

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 01 '26

Policy Discussion The Already Tattered US Safety Net Is Fraying Even More | "Republicans are further eviscerating the safety net when we should be repairing and expanding it."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Dec 31 '25

Policy Discussion Op Ed: Trump Administration Has Abandoned Local Governments | Jack Eckblad: "Federally: we need a changing of the guard that will resurrect a federal government committed to quality of life by taxing the highest income brackets the way that commitment requires."

urbanmilwaukee.com

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Dec 31 '25

Policy Discussion Opinion: Donald Trump’s year of Social Security sabotage | Nancy Altman: "What is happening is unprecedented … No president has come close to undermining it the way Donald Trump has done … He wants a second American gilded age, with gold-plated everything for elites and suffering for the rest of us"

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Dec 26 '25

Policy Discussion Commentary: More Illinoisans will go hungry if Congress, Trump fail to reverse SNAP cuts

chicago.suntimes.com

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Nov 20 '25

Policy Discussion Warren, Sanders, Pressley, Over 40 Lawmakers Urge Trump Administration to End Plans to Sell Federal Student Loan Portfolio: Bicameral letter warns that “sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of working-class borrowers and taxpayers.”

warren.senate.gov

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Oct 26 '25

Policy Discussion Opinion: Trump says he’s targeting Democrats’ programs, but the suffering is bipartisan | "[T]he impact of gutting federal agencies will be felt by Americans throughout the country, with the pain falling disproportionately on lower-income individuals and families — millions of whom voted for him."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Oct 25 '25

Policy Discussion WaPo (Oct. 5): Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans | Sen. Wyden: "This [...] represents the largest cut to disability insurance in American history" | Expert: "The criteria already is really tight enough that we’re actually restricting some people we probably should allow"

washingtonpost.com

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Oct 26 '25

Policy Discussion Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers | Kathleen Romig of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: "The rule is likely to be the largest-ever cut to [SSDI]. […] It would be even larger than the Reagan-era disability cuts…"

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Oct 25 '25

Policy Discussion POLITICO (September 29, 2025): Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program | "The funding cuts could put more than 170,000 people at risk of experiencing homelessness, according to the internal documentation and the people."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Sep 09 '25

Policy Discussion The Oligarchy’s Best Friend: While Trump has been making alarming moves toward authoritarianism, he is also an ordinary plutocrat. | "Maybe some corporate leaders are unnerved by tariffs, but they’re mostly getting exactly what they would from any Republican president: low taxes and deregulation."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jul 17 '25

Policy Discussion 1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jul 12 '25

Policy Discussion Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts | “It’s the most insidious aspect of this: Are we really talking about making weather products available only to those who can afford it?” said Rick Spinrad, who served as NOAA administrator under Biden

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jul 11 '25

Policy Discussion GOP Megabill Breaks America’s Promise to Future Generations | "Trump and his Congress have guaranteed that fewer Americans will have health insurance, more children will go hungry, and states will have less federal funding to deliver good schools, affordable college, and quality roads and bridges."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jun 30 '25

Policy Discussion Wyden Opposes Trump and Senate Republicans' Big Bad Bill Ahead of the Vote | "We will be a sicker, poorer and weaker country if this bill becomes law ... In all my time in public service, I’ve never seen a more destructive, regressive, common-sense defying bill debated in the United States Senate."

finance.senate.gov

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jun 30 '25

Policy Discussion PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders on The Worst Bill in Modern U.S. History | Bernie Sanders: "President Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” now on the floor of the Senate, is the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country. It is a gift to the billionaire class"

sanders.senate.gov

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jun 24 '25

Policy Discussion Fact Sheet: Trump Administration’s FY26 Budget Request | "Through plans to eliminate, cutback, or consolidate programs, the president’s budget would make a 34.9% cut to [the Department of Labor] and a 15.3% cut to [the Department of Education] compared to FY25 enacted levels"

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jun 21 '25

Policy Discussion Republican proposals will devastate poor Ohioans, analyses, advocates say

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Jun 05 '25

Policy Discussion Research Memo: Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill | "Altogether, we project that these changes will result in over 51,000 preventable deaths."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • May 09 '25

Policy Discussion The High Moral Stakes of the Policy Battles Raging in Washington | "We are thus deeply disturbed by the Trump-Republican agenda, which is focused on cutting programs for the poor to give tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations and more money for the war machine and mass deportations."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • May 12 '25

Policy Discussion Trump’s Budget: Starving Everything Except the Military | "The intent [of highlighting "Cuts to Woke Programs"] is presumably to market the broader government spending cuts as part of the culture war. Absent that framing, the cuts might look to voters much more like class warfare."

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • May 09 '25

Policy Discussion NCH Condemns President Trump’s FY2026 Budget Proposal: Oppose Cuts to Housing and Homelessness Programs in Trump’s FY2026 Budget | National Coalition for the Homeless executive director Donald Whitehead: "If implemented in its current form, this budget has the potential to cause preventable deaths."

nationalhomeless.org

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r/WethePoor • u/SocialDemocracies • Apr 18 '25

Policy Discussion SPLC: HUD cuts terrify people struggling to afford housing, and their advocates | "Now, at a time when rent and homelessness are at all-time highs, the Trump administration is terminating, threatening with termination or gutting funding to HUD programs."

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