Today, I decided to try my hand at fun poetry.
Poetry about what is on my mind.
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Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: FloridaSNDad
Sunday: loggersbrat
The little dog is named Itzl.
The Biden/Harris ticket will truly do it right.
Reporters shouting, “Landslide!” all through election night.
And a Senate seat in Florida
will get away from Scott.
Rick will ask voters to vote for him.
The voters, they will not.
And the drama involving Sinema
will be resolved in election cinema.
Republicans will wail,
but on election day they will fail.
In Texas, Ted is saying,
vote for me, Ted Cruz.
On election day the voters will say,
No, Ted Cruz, you lose.
And over in the House,
we’ll see a big blue wave.
Giving us the House majority
that we so deeply crave.
Then, we start in January,
getting new laws voted in,
and signed by Joseph Biden,
with a ceremonial pen.
Reproductive freedom.
Women’s health care, yes.
We will codify Roe into federal law,
once again, with choices blessed.
Gun safety, gun rules,
to slow shooters down,
we need a lot more of those.
The guns, the ammo,
the big magazines,
the dangers that they pose.
The background checks,
the red flag laws,
so we can reach out,
when a guy’s flipping out,
and has a gun in his desk.
www.whitehouse.gov/…
- USDS and CMS discovered and helped states fix a systems issue that impacted 29 states and was responsible for improper loss of coverage for over 400,000 children and families in Medicaid and CHIP. As a result, improperly disenrolled individuals regained their coverage and retroactively had their coverage reinstated for their period of improper disenrollment.
- In Spring 2024, USDS will launch pilots to improve income verification for federal benefit programs. The pilots will test and measure new approaches to improve incoming reporting, electronic verification for self-employed workers, coordination of federal benefit services, and reducing barriers to federal benefit programs.
- In April 2024, USDA expects to release the Request for Applications for Fiscal Year 2024 Process and Technology Improvement Grants, which will award a total of $5 million in grants to between 5 and 12 awardees to simplify SNAP application and eligibility determination systems.
- In March 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched the new Direct File Pilot Program in partnership with USDS to help Americans file their taxes for free. Made possible by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, Direct File provides a free, secure option for an estimated 19 million taxpayers in 12 states to file their taxes directly with the IRS. Initial users have saved hundreds of dollars and reported that the tool is simple and straightforward to use.
- USDS partnered with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to makes it easier for Americans to use the SSA website to apply for benefits, sign up for Medicare, and apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), resulting in a 52.8% increase in customer satisfaction among the 180 million annual visitors to SSA.gov. This work included creating a more user-friendly eligibility process so that more SSA customers start an online application when they discover they may be eligible for benefits.
A lot more information is on that page.
Feel free to go read it all.
I spent many years, with Pam and with Tonia,
filling out forms. All in all,
the Biden/Harris team, is making life better.
Starting next year, they will finish the job,
or at least make it even “more better.”
(My poetry skills are not super-duper.)
(I could not think of how to rhyme with better. Except wetter.)
(Send me a letter.)
Biden boosts small business.
Small business is boosting Biden.
Nowhere is truly somewhere,
on the road to re-election.
Always getting better,
don’t fixate on perfection.
I could spend all day and night,
tooting Biden’s horn.
But after reading just so much,
I know you all are worn.
(out)
Ha!
Hugs!