Paul Van de Water
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Senior Fellow @CenterOnBudget | Budget policy, health, Social Security | Dutch heritage | Siberian cat lover
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Joined May 2014
RT @steve_vladeck: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative S…
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Senate GOP budget resolution includes $9 trillion in unspecified spending cuts. Thread from @ParrottCBPP
While the Senate Republican budget’s reconciliation directives to committees get the most attention, digging into the accompanying tables reveals their misguided vision for the budget and what to expect from them next.
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Jacob Leibenluft explains Treasury payment systems, and the substantial risks posed by DOGE tampering, including illegally stopped payments, severe cybersecurity and privacy breaches, and the potential for delayed payments to retirees and veterans:
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Many of the moves made by the Trump Administration to reshape the federal government are overtly unlawful. David Super identifies the legal problems with freezing funding, amending and repealing rules, and denying birthright citizenship:
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Closure of mental health center seems like a bad idea, @MassGovernor
Cape Cod mental health and law enforcement experts said the closure would mean more people in emergency rooms and jails.
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RT @CenterOnBudget: Kathleen Romig just posted a thread about how the Trump administration is looking to drastically reducing federal build…
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RT @capecodtimes: Six Cape Cod water quality projects approved for federal funding are in limbo: Cape group says it can't submit invoices.…
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RT @MarcGoldwein: 🚨A $5.5 trillion reconciliation package would explode💥 interest payments. @BudgetHawks finds it would: ◙ Increase inter…
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RT @adamnmichel: Chair of the @WaysandMeansGOP Oversight Subcommittee, @DavidSchweikert calls the current policy baseline approach "an inte…
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Even more so if used to acquire dodgy assets, like crypto or NFTs.
The Daily Dish: A U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund – a Bankrupt Idea - @djheakin #Eakinomics
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Use budgetary resources to finance Social Security, not cut taxes.
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.@Princeton Pres. Eisgruber's State of the University Letter. 70% of 1st yr students receive aid. Continued commitment to diversity, inclusion. Restraint in political statements. Role of endowment.
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RT @BrookingsGov: “Pushing federal workers out of the government with no plan for how government services will function is a recipe for dis…
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New @CenterOnBudget brief on how emerging Republican proposals could make it harder for millions to afford and access health care by cutting coverage and raising costs. Learn more:
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RT @NIRSonline: NEWS | Americans want Social Security’s financing gap closed with more revenues - not benefit cuts - and willing to contri…
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RT @BBKogan: This deeply immoral pause is also completely illegal. It directly violates Section 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act. https…
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Implementing the Social Security “Fairness” Act is another reason Social Security needs more administrative funding.
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RT @CenterOnBudget: Policymakers should heed this warning. Republican proposals would take away health coverage & food assistance from mill…
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