Executive Director of @healthaccess, fighting for quality, affordable health care for all Californians.
Joined November 2011
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
9 Jul 2025
LIVE AT 10AM TODAY, our executive director @TheWallner, @CPEHN's Kiran Savage-Sangwan, and @DisabilityVU's Judy Marks join @KALW for a round table discussion on the impact the Big Ugly Bill will have on our health care. #FightForOurHealth
Tune in: kalw.org/show/your-call
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Was feeling like I needed something uplifting and pure after today’s vote so I turned on Planet Earth 3, which I’ve never seen. The first scene is a group of seals teaming up to chase off a great white shark. If that isn’t a metaphor right now, I don’t know what is.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
2 Jul 2025
While the GOP smears poor people, it’s really Walmart & Amazon looting Medicaid SNAP to subsidize low pay.
Corporate America = the real welfare queens.
Don’t miss @hiltzikm in @latimes:
latimes.com/business/story/2…
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
When Valadao voted for the #ACA repeal, which included Medicaid cuts that hit his district hardest, maybe it was the influence of Speaker McCarthy from the contiguous district.
But he lost his seat over that vote. And knew this budget's impacts, given all the letters he signed.
3 Jul 2025
One confounding thing is why Rep Valadao walked the plank in a 64% Medicaid district if his vote wasn't even needed to pass the bill? He must really just love to kill people
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This was a lie. David Valadao turned his back on over half a million Central Valley residents in his district who rely on Medi-Cal, and the rural hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and more who receive more than 50% of their funding from Medicaid.
28 Jun 2025
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527,192 people to be exact - and almost 9 out of 10 kids
Outrageous!
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/med…
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
Again, @RepDonBacon, you know this isn’t true: a clinic in your own state just announced they’re closing because of the Medicaid cuts you’re voting for:
klkntv.com/rural-southwest-n…
3 Jul 2025
Healthy adults who work are protected under this bill.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
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.@RepDavidValadao, @RepYoungKim & all 7 CA Republicans showed us where their loyalties lie:
Not with their constituents who will lose health care
Not with hospitals facing closure
Not with families who rely on SNAP for food assistance
But with their wealthy donors - period.
3 Jul 2025
⁉️@RepDavidValadao & @RepYoungKim promised they would vote no on any proposal that threatened to close rural hospitals & increase the cost of care for working people, but that’s exactly what they voted for. This bill won't make America great—only sicker, poorer & closer to death.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
The House passed the #BigUglyBill that will cut Medicaid & fund family separations while making the ultra-rich richer. @KenCalvert @RepDavidValadao @RepYoungKim voted for this bill.
Here's some of what's in it.
#BigBeautifulBill #ItPassed #Illegal #KidsHealth #ProtectOurCare
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
They did not get any changes in this bill after it came back to the House. Zero. The bill that they criticized as horrible is the bill that they will be voting on -- and many of them voting for -- this afternoon.
3 Jul 2025
There it is - from Norman:
"We held out as long as we could and made the changes we knew we could make."
This bill was always going to pass. Changes could be made here and there (A.I., wind and solar, amounts of tax breaks) but the bulk of this was always going through.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
On policy, Valadao's Central Valley district is 2/3 depending on Medicaid coverage. On politics, he literally lost his election after voting to repeal the ACA. On process, he sent a letter last week against the Senate bill, seeking changes. He has every reason to vote no.
3 Jul 2025
NEW -- DAVID VALADAO has voted YES on the rule.
It's now 208-216 with eight still outstanding.
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Watching a news quad-box, as I often do when there’s a big vote happening. Very disappointed that fox is the only one covering the reconciliation vote
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
3 Jul 2025
REMINDER: This is a critical procedural vote for the OBBBA ("Big Beautiful Bill Act). It is the rule allowing for the bill to come up and get an up or down vote.
If this fails, the GOP can hold another rule vote another time. But they may have larger problems. (Or not.)
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
1 Jul 2025
The U.S. Senate just voted to pass the big ugly bill—a bill that rips almost a trillion dollars way from #Medicaid, while also making major policy changes with little oversight. It's our last chance to stop it—tell House Representatives: VOTE NO. bit.ly/NOBigUglyCuts
ALT PROTECT MEDICAID Tell Congress: Vote NO on the big, ugly, bill! Call 1-202-224-3121; Send a letter bit.ly/NoBigUglyCuts
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House Republicans are anxious and frantic. Will their fretting translating into actual action though? Your constituents don't care about how many letters you sign onto, they care how you vote. politico.com/live-updates/20…
1 Jul 2025
“This bill is headed back to the House with even deeper cuts to Medicaid. Now is NOT the time for empty words and platitudes. Now is the time for @RepDavidValadao
to stand with his constituents and make a difference by voting against this devastating bill.” - our ED,
@TheWallner
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
1 Jul 2025
“This bill is headed back to the House with even deeper cuts to Medicaid. Now is NOT the time for empty words and platitudes. Now is the time for @RepDavidValadao
to stand with his constituents and make a difference by voting against this devastating bill.” - our ED,
@TheWallner
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
1 Jul 2025
The @Fight4OurHealth coalition is outside @RepDavidValadao’s office again today, pleading with him to vote no on the big, ugly bill passed by the U.S. Senate this morning; because cutting health care is UNPATRIOTIC. #ProtectMedicaid #FightForOurHealth
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner | she/her retweeted
28 Jun 2025
Incredible stuff from @HawleyMO here. If he doesn’t like this bill that does exactly what he claims to be against, he should call his senator and ask him to vote no.
28 Jun 2025
Sen. Hawley, now a YES on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ says Rs have a “lot of thinking to do” on Medicaid.
“We can't be cutting healthcare for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations,” he told me.
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