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It is not true that Americans have experienced "continual cuts" to public benefits since Reagan, as the lede of this piece suggests. Rather, wage subsidies, food assistance, and public health insurance were all expanded between 1980 and 2020. Tho tide obviously just reversed https://t.co/Dr0631g01r pic.twitter.com/bTn4MfK0YU

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) July 4, 2025