State senator, dad, friend to dogs. Serving Middletown, Newington, Cromwell, Rocky Hill and Wethersfield Connecticut. Admiral in the Nebraska Navy.
Middletown, CT
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Matt Lesser retweeted
As of October 1st, states must pay 75% of SNAP’s administrative costs vs 50% when the law was first enacted a year ago.
We asked several scholars who study the SNAP program closely to shed light on the implications these cuts will have on workers, families, and economic growth.
This isn't complicated. If you make it more expensive to administer SNAP (which Trump just did) states will do less administering of SNAP.
That wouldn't help here. In fact, Connecticut is now incentivized to reduce administrative oversight of the program, which increases the chances of someone fraudulently receiving benefits
Government programs can help survivors escape traffickers by reducing their coercive control. Cutting those programs effectively helps human traffickers.
Should we be surprised that Donald Trump - who protected Jeffrey Epstein and his associates - is once again revictimizing survivors of human trafficking?
Today the President kicked over a dozen lawful Connecticut residents who survived human trafficking off of their Medicaid.
A massive unfunded mandate on everyone in Connecticut.
Matt Lesser retweeted
Four young people taken by ICE at Tweed and Bradley in three weeks. No criminal records. All here legally. Held two to three weeks, then released, because there was never a case to begin with. Per CT Mirror, 800 have been taken at US airports.
Matt Lesser retweeted
Unfortunately for Republicans, the situation is very easy to describe:
1. Trump won a cost-of-living election
2. Then he publicly announced a plan to raise the price of imports
3. Then he even-more-publicly started a war that raised the price of gas
4. Meanwhile, he got rich on crypto scams, while engaging in downright Pynchonian misadventures with the reflecting pool and ballroom, which sent the unmistakeable signal that "I care more about random bullshit than America's money problems ... and also I'm not even good at executing on the random bullshit"
How could anyone pass this test?
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FREEDOM FUEL HAS ARRIVED. ⛽️🇺🇸
The FIRST Freedom Fuel Network gas station has LANDED in Philadelphia, lowering the price at the pump to $3.47 for our 47th President.
President Trump is leading the charge to lower gas prices this summer - putting more money in your pocket. 🔥
He obtained a 🇬🇷 passport back in March and federal prosecutors didn't even ask the court to seize it or make him wear an ankle monitor?
He bought ✈️ tix in MAY and nobody did anything about it?
Were they waiting for him to buy giant billboards saying "I'm going on the lam?"
Outrageous. Send him back to face justice @GreeceinNewYork @GreeceInUSA
#BREAKING Kosta Diamantis has skipped the country and fled to Greece instead of attending his bribery sentencing (Diamantis applied for a Greek passport before his trial)
Prosecutors say he took a boat from Florida to the Bahamas and then flew to London
Impressive. No notes.
Brooke Rollins: "There is more beef being consumed today than ever before. The price remains where the price is, but people keep buying it. Normally you have a price go up and demand goes down, but it's the opposite. $6.50 for a pound of ground beef, which by the way is less than a latte from Starbucks, feeds a family of four. The protein is excellent."
Matt Lesser retweeted
That's a lot of speakers to spin an economic disaster!
Since Trump was elected:
- gas prices are up 33%
- over 100,000 manufacturing jobs lost
- 21% jump in those without health insurance
- tariffs costing every family $1,100 a year
- student loan delinquency up 20%
Matt Lesser retweeted
The average price of gas is $4.15 a gallon today. ⛽️
The previous record-high price on Labor Day was $3.82 in 2012. cbsnews.com/news/labor-day-g…
