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Lew Blank

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I do comms & analysis @DataProgress. He/him

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  • A Majority of North Carolina Voters Want Their Senators to Vote Against the GOP’s Tax and Spending Bill

    1 week ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    By Anika DandekarOn May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a tax and spending bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBB), containing the bulk of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda. The megabill extends and expands Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, including for high-income households and corporations. It also temporarily removes taxes on tips and overtime pay, and increases the Child Tax Credit for most middle-class families, while increasing border and military spending.

  • Voters Strongly Oppose So-Called “Conversion Therapy,” Think Supreme Court Should Allow State Bans

    1 week ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    The Supreme Court recently decided to take up a case challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” According to The Trevor Project, conversion therapy is a term “used to encompass a wide range of efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” For example, these practices might attempt to change a young person from being gay to being straight, or to no longer identify as transgender.

  • Voters Want Congress to Keep Our Best Tool to Drive “Energy Dominance”: the Department of Energy’s In-House Bank

    2 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    By Catherine Fraser, Grace Adcox, and Jake HigdonCreated in 2005 during the George W. Bush administration, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) is the closest thing the U.S. has to a domestic infrastructure bank.

  • Voters Support Laws That Prevent Trump From Benefiting From Cryptocurrency

    2 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    Senate Republicans are pushing forward a bill called the GENIUS Act, which would establish the first federal regulations targeting the cryptocurrency industry. The legislation comes after President Donald Trump recently introduced his own meme coin, $TRUMP, which has generated hundreds of millions in profit for the Trump family.

  • Voters Overwhelmingly Support the Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act

    3 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which most recently include a 50% tariff on imports of steel and aluminum, are now projected by the Yale Budget Lab to cost each American household an average of $2,500 per year. These price hikes could have an especially harsh impact on Social Security beneficiaries.

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Lew Blank
Lew Blank @LewBlank
16 Jun 25

RT @DataProgress: What do you think of the Democratic Party? Who should be the party's leader? We asked people on the street in Madison, WI…

Lew Blank
Lew Blank @LewBlank
2 May 25

RT @CaringAcrossGen: FYI: In every congressional district in the United States, less than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid. That’s a…

Lew Blank
Lew Blank @LewBlank
29 Apr 25

RT @DataProgress: Which Trump administration actions are sparking the most backlash? New data show it’s three things: Social Security Admi…