Anthony Wright

Lawmakers holding these hearings... “shows how much health care costs have risen on the political radar,” said Anthony Wright, the executive director of @FamiliesUSA, a Washington, D.C., consumer advocacy group. nytimes.com/2026/01/22/hea…

Yeah Wemby is good and everything, but he’s not the only ridiculously skilled person in this arena 🤯

Vivek Ranadive is potentially a few weeks away from having hired two coaches named Mike who won NBA championships after he fired them

These losses may be only the start. GA & MS are moving to erase more Black seats by 28. In a little noticed Senate hearing last wk, a conserv thinktank (plus a R Senator) argued that under Callais Justice Dept should sue blue states to dissolve their majority Black House seats

Never forget that one of Trump’s first actions as President was to tear apart America’s largest consumer protection agency.

The fact that our current HHS Secretary felt the need to send out a tweet strongly clarifying he does NOT support rapid & innovative vaccine development as a response to a global public health crisis says a lot about where we are as a society right now, and who is determining US health policy… 😩

Not getting enough attention: the one-page order from Todd Blanche to wipe out every audit of Donald Trump. Many experts believe it’s illegal, and here’s why. Federal law prohibits the President or his aides from directing or halting an IRS audit. Agents who carry out a politically motivated audit, or stop one at the direction of the White House, can face prison time. That is the statute on the books. Now look at what just happened. Todd Blanche, the Acting Attorney General and Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, signed a one-page order demanding the IRS drop every existing audit of Trump, his family, and their “affiliates.” One of those audits reportedly could have cost Trump more than $100 million. The Treasury Department’s top lawyer resigned over it. The acting top IRS lawyer had to recuse himself because he previously represented Trump in his tax cases. There is no precedent for an Attorney General ordering an end to audits of a group of taxpayers. Many experts say the Attorney General has no authority to do this. So we have a likely illegal order, signed by the President’s former lawyer, on behalf of the President, protecting the President. And the only people with jurisdiction to investigate it work for the President. I will fight this with every tool I have.

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb rips Trump’s $1.8B defense fund: "this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."

I was the first person born in Alaska to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives!

Jesus

Mitt Romney text to McConnell, January 2nd

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: THE SENATE will go home until June, leaving the reconciliation bill unfinished. THUNE just told senators in the room. All because of the DOJ weaponization fund. House is expected to follow suit soon. me and @AndrewDesiderio

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

Today's @CFA_GOV hearing to review the arch design is underway. The federal commission, which reviews proposed monuments, received about 600 public comments ahead of today's hearing, CFA's secretary says — with "99.5 percent" of those comments opposing the project.

These firings of #USPTF members without real rationale further threatens the trust& politicizes the processes that allows Americans to get key preventive services covered without cost-sharing. We must be vigilant to ensure access to vaccines, screenings, contraception and more.

Disappointed that Virginia's Governor vetoed legislation that would have led the nation in lowering prescription drug prices... even Maryland's board this week added another medication, Ozempic, to be subject to a upper payment limit. The fight continues...

“It’s a huge issue, and we’re far from mission accomplished,” said Anthony Wright, the executive director for @FamiliesUSA, a health care advocacy group in Washington, D.C. “We shouldn’t have insurers competing on how aggressively they deny needed care.” nytimes.com/2026/05/18/bus…

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PHRMA always sues against any effort to lower prescription drug prices--but that doesn't mean they win. Allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices was long-fought for decades (including by @FamiliesUSA). Glad #SCOTUS isn't even hearing this legal attack.

With the release of the 2027 final rule for the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) by CMS, the Trump admin just made health care harder to afford, harder to access, and harder to keep — and the millions who rely on the ACA marketplace for coverage will pay the price.