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First Focus on Children

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Dedicated to making children & families a priority in federal policy & budget decisions. Affiliated w/ @Campaign4Kids. #InvestInKids

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Scholars Strategy Network (bsky: @scholars.org) (@ssnscholars) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At yesterday's U.S. Capitol press conference with Community Change Action and Economic Security Project, SSN member Harry Holzer spoke out against plans to gut Medicaid & SNAP. Watch his 3-min speech on how this hurts families & the economy.

Gene Bryant (@genebryant2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A pregnant TN woman was detained by ICE officials in March. Weeks later, while in custody in Louisiana, she lost her baby mid-pregnancy
. “I told them, ‘Please, take me to the hospital. I don’t feel well
.’” nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/iri


TX Kids Can’t Wait (@txkidscantwait) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Once again, James Talarico is 💯% right. In addition, this raises so many questions: How shall a teacher answer a 2nd grader’s question (because let’s be clear, these questions will be asked), as to which Commandments our president has violated? How about explaining how

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@epiellie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is neither common sense nor good science. Common sense says pregnant women and children deserve to be protected from potentially deadly diseases. Good science says this vaccine does that.

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Trump Administration Moves to End Settlement that Protects Immigrant Children; Flores Counsel Vow to Defend Vital Safeguards | Children's Rights buff.ly/A7AUXqs

Senator Ruben Gallego (@senrubengallego) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was a free lunch kid. That tray meant my mom could breathe a little easier—and I could just be a kid. Now Republicans want to gut food assistance for millions of families. It’s cruel. It’s needless. It’s not right.

Brett Murphy (@brettmmurphy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

Senator Chris Van Hollen (@chrisvanhollen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rubio's claim that cutting foreign aid didn't cost lives? Flat-out false. People are dying every day because of Rubio, Musk and Trump's dismantling of USAID — while China furthers its influence around the world. Shameful. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/


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HHS Sec RFK Jr. removed COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids & pregnant women from CDC’s recommended schedule, limiting access & insurance coverage despite ongoing risks like long COVID and MIS-C. Experts warn. Our latest analysis explains how this endangers children & undermines

HHS Sec RFK Jr. removed COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids & pregnant women from CDC’s recommended schedule, limiting access & insurance coverage despite ongoing risks like long COVID and MIS-C. Experts warn. Our latest analysis explains how this endangers children & undermines
Georgetown Center for Children and Families (@georgetownccf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This bill was rushed by so quickly some of the harmful consequences are just coming to light. For example, the budget reconciliation bill removes the protection from arbitrary annual and lifetime dollar limits on CHIP coverage for children.

Bruce Lesley (@brucelesley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Social safety nets are crucial for every child's potential. Pleased to join host Billy Shore of Share Our Strength on the #AddPassionAndStir podcast with Phoebe Boyer of Children's Aid for this important discussion about the social and policy threats to children at this critical

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Social safety nets are crucial for every child's potential. Hear insights from Bruce Lesley and Phoebe Boyer of Children's Aid on the #AddPassionAndStir podcast. #socialsafetynets #childwelfare bit.ly/45wqJwp bit.ly/45wqJwp?utm_so


Jerome Adams (@jeromeadamsmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The move to drop CDC's COVID vaccine rec for pregnant moms ignores the data. Kids <6 months have COVID hospitalization rates similar to 65-74 yr-olds. Maternal vaccination is their only protection. Sensible policies to #MAHA should prioritize both the elderly and infants.

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Trump Administration’s removal of COVID-19 from recommended childhood vaccines endangers children, families, and confidence in all vaccinations | Maxwell Rowshandel - First Focus on Children firstfocus.org/update/trump-a


House Judiciary Dems (@housejudiciary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump’s budget bill would give his Treasury Secretary the power to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status simply by declaring—without any due process in court and on an unreviewable basis—that they “support terrorism.” This rupture in our law would be a dagger pointing at

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@geauxgabrielle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST. Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.

An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST. 

Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.