On the Big Beautiful Bill

By MONIQUE

I am a 36 year old Afro American woman, seemingly able-bodied, single filing in the lower 30% tax payer level, with no dependent, making less than $30,000 a year, surrounded by women--all my relative men are dead, imprisoned, or estranged, never to have been able to hold one single place of employment for more than eighteen months.  I am the daughter of a mother with terminal illness, and chronic debilitating conditions forever evolving plus aging. I am a granddaughter of a grandmother raised by her fathers ex ex-wives folks, and a third grade education.

Why was it that the last time I went to update my coordination entry via BACs, Bay Area Community Services, there was an update made to the list of questions, and the question that really was freaking outlandish to me was: “Have you ever had an abortion?” Are you for real, who’s asking, where is this really getting reported, and whom the actual fuck, and why it this relevant to my housing score exactly?

The White Supremacy House in DC under President tha Fuck Trump passed a tied bill, winning with the vote breaker of VP Vance 51 to 50.  This bill will make cuts go, break, and permanently dismantle Medicaid and SNAP, and will increase sending of weapons of war. I mean increase spending and energy production... aka help erect facilitation of wars and policing and around 100 billion $ flushed into ICE.  

In California, according to United Way, over 100,000 children depend on SNAP, supplement nutrition assistance program, and millions on Medicaid will be without access to essential and emergency care. And 2.4 million Bay Area residents rely on Medicaid, equaling 25% of our population.

In California, according to Straight Arrow News, 17 million people will lose healthcare, that's 13.7 million people nationwide. United Way reports from other independent studies predict 51,000 additional deaths every year.

What is a ITIN? For families who are individual entities of that unit file taxes. Taxpayer identification number. The reconciliation bill eliminates child tax credit (ctc) and earned income tax (etic) for ITIN families, or supposedly these individuals.

For me this means essential aid like In Home care essentials (like caregivers and vendors jobs or entupernuerengunuity law abiding people, human beings, entities, sole properties, etc.  For me and working in the nonprofit sector I believe we as non profit are already seeing cuts to funding and scrambling to find grants and residual income to support the funding of regular programming.