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@WhiteHouse Director of Digital Strategy. Erstwhile Baystater. Walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.

Washington, DC
Joined January 2021
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Rob Flaherty
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I solemnly swear to be no less online over here.
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My man is literally tweeting from a yacht in Italy about why we shouldn't provide student debt relief to the middle class
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Rick Scott
2 years
Democrats' push to "forgive" student loans won't solve the problem. We need REAL solutions that don't create an added burden on taxpayers. My #COLLEGEAct will actually hold universities accountable for student outcomes & force them to answer for sky-rocketing tuition costs.
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Man, this picture
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This photo of Champ as a puppy gets me every time.
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A COVID relief package with nearly 70% public support seems pretty unifying to me!
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Covering 147 members of a single party in congress voting to overturn a freely-held election as a political horse race issue is, perhaps, part of the problem here
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You guys are going to want to sit down for when I tell you who was President in 2020
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The American Rescue Plan would cut child poverty in half.
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Every week, the President is going to communicate directly with Americans and lift up their stories. Check out the first in the series!
@POTUS
President Biden
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Last year, Michele lost her job because of the pandemic. I recently gave her a call to hear her story and discuss how my American Rescue Plan will help families like hers.
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Really got nothing left over there
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RNC Research
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KAMALA HARRIS: “Good morning!” It’s 12:35 PM.
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I happen to think it's a great time to review all of the great things Joe Biden has gotten done as President with this new website we just launched.
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They said it was costume day at the White House, and the Office of Digital Strategy understood the assignment
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3 years
Joe Biden: An ok boomer
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Michael Kruse
3 years
Biden has the highest favorability among 18- to 29-year-old Americans of any first-term president over the 21 years the @harvardiop youth poll has been conducted.
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Believe they call this a Biden Boom
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Carl Quintanilla
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“Biggest Gain in 17 Years” - @WSJ #holidaysales @mastercard
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Happy Halloween from the Office of Digital Strategy!
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Rob Flaherty
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(More people go to Yahoo news than CNN and the New York Times combined)
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Oliver Darcy
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An infrastructure op-ed by Joe Biden just posted over at Yahoo
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Rob Flaherty
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tfw you pass a big, bold Rescue Plan and get 400 million shots in arms, thus returning unemployment to 4.6% two years ahead of schedule and creating 5.6 million jobs in the process, an average of 620,000 per month
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3 years
How it started How it’s going:
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I guess I’m left with a simple question: How many people have seen COVID vaccine misinformation on Facebook?
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Dylan Byers
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#Break : FACEBOOK responds to Biden’s “They’re killing people” remark >>
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There is no darker brandon
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RTÉ News
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. @JoeBiden is given a rapturous welcome as he arrives on stage outside St Muredach's Cathedral in Ballina, Co Mayo |
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60% of *Republicans* support the President's extremely bipartisan COVID relief package.
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Lots of luck in your senior year!
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3 years
Turtleneck. Rosary. Honoring our troops. A man in his element.
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President Biden
3 years
Every year service members around the world gather to watch the Super Bowl — and tonight, I called into watch parties in Kabul and on the USS Nimitz to thank them for their service. We are forever in debt to those who sacrifice so much to keep us safe.
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The best to ever do it
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The White House
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Press Secretary Jen Psaki sat down for a final Q&A to answer your questions about inflation, infant formula, and more.
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shots in arms and money in pockets
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Uh wow 🇺🇸🇵🇱
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Favorite find of this trip was the pub selling Biden Guinnesses
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New jumbos!
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When we lower costs not lower wages
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In fairness to congressional Republicans, its hard to applaud [checks notes] clean water, road repair, and new bridges.
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Hot off the presses: It's the new American Rescue Plan site! You can learn how the bill will help families like yours, find out how the checks will be distributed, and tell us how the President's plan will help you.
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We added a new COVID progress dashboard to — updated every day to tell you what % of adults have at least a dose and how close we are to 200 million shots.
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"Curt Schilling to repay a fraction of $75 million game loan"
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Curt Schilling
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My body my choice? Your loan my responsibility? This isn’t loan forgiveness, it’s a generation of lazy unaccountable uneducated children being covered by hard working debt paying Americans.
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The boys — and I’m not being facetious — are back in town
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President Biden
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Great news folks: we hit record-high health care enrollment. 31 million people now have coverage through the Affordable Care Act. Couldn’t think of a better person to celebrate this milestone with than President Obama, so I gave him a call.
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I would simply not have members of your party propose sunsetting Medicare and social security every five years if you didn’t want to get hit for proposing sunsetting Medicare and social security every five years
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Now on the @WhiteHouse IG: a virtual Easter egg hunt!
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Pipes, Pipes baby (We're replacing them)
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NBC News
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President Biden unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.
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Rob Flaherty
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If you're wondering when we're going to have enough vaccine supply for every American
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"But here’s where the White House digital team comes in: these four posts related to the Olivia Rodrigo saga...are now the top four most engaged vaccine-related posts on Instagram in the past 30 days. "
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FWIW
3 years
🚨 NEW: Before the White House's Olivia Rodrigo saga this week, 11 out of the top 15 performing vaccine-related posts on Facebook were negative or anti-vax. We break down who's behind those posts + measure the impact of the WH's buzzy digital play:
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All gas no brakes
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Georgetown CEW: The American Jobs Plan would create ✅8 million jobs for workers with a high school diploma or less ✅4.8 million jobs for those with more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree.
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Think the person who votes to reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion gets to decide over the guy who voted to raise it by $2 trillion just for tax cuts for the wealthy but thanks for playing
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Jim Banks
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You can’t call yourself a deficit hawk ever again if you vote for this …
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We're not just saying it -- we're Yellen it
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The Recount
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@KateSullivanDC Treasury Sec. Yellen urges Congress to pass more relief: “The price of doing nothing is much higher than the price of doing something, and doing something big.”
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According to YouGov, The Biden COVID Relief Plan is as popular as the Beatles. #Unity
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Rob Flaherty
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✅ 6 million jobs created ✅ Wages up ✅World-leading economic recovery ✅Generational investments in infrastructure ✅Moving toward enacting sweeping middle class cost cuts ✅Adele/Chris Stapleton collab The Biden economic plan is working
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👀👀
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The White House
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.
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Rob Flaherty
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Hello from (extremely beautiful) Warsaw
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Time to vote on the things
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Dude(s) with sign(s) @dudewithsign
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Those 744,000 Americans at home, no doubt wondering: “does Twitter think broadband counts as infrastructure?”
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Zeke Miller
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WASHINGTON (AP) — US jobless claims rise to 744,000 as some employers keep cutting jobs amid pandemic.
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A long, but important one from @POTUS , laying out the importance of federal investments in research and development
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President Biden
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This can be the moment that America wins the future — but it’s going to take all of us to make it happen. Let’s do big things, together.
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An astonishing amount of people are learning about the invasion of Ukraine through digital creators who have begun to cover it. We take that really seriously, and are working to make sure those creators have the ability to have their q's answered.
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2 Joe 2 Biden
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Mario Parker
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President Biden test drives Ford’s new electric F-150 on a track
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Vaccine requirements! They work.
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Andrew Bates
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. @Reuters : "Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States have risen by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements"
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infrastructure week is jobs week is climate week
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Not messing around.
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Weijia Jiang
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NEW: The President will announce that all employers with 100 or more employees will be required to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or require testing at least once a week, and they’ll have to provide paid time off. The new rule will impact over 80 million workers in private sector.
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Currently #6 on YouTube trending
@HC_Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
2 years
What is America? President Biden has given that some thought. See the whole interview here:
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Rob Flaherty
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So have grateful to have served with this team. No President has invested as much in connecting with Americans wherever they are as @POTUS has. I leave this chair knowing that the fight to vanquish malarkey will be in good hands long after I'm gone.
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Jason Goldman
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Congrats to ⁦⁦ @Rob_Flaherty ⁩ on his amazing run at the White House and best of luck on the new gig! Rob transformed WH online engagement. And he upgraded the Office of Digital Strategy and its standing (including better real estate.) Onward!
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Rob Flaherty
2 years
You heard it from Rick Scott's team: the Modern Republican party wants to raise taxes on half the country.
@sppeoples
Steve Peoples
2 years
Those close to Scott suggest he understands the modern Republican Party better than McConnell and his establishment allies. And as tension lingers, Scott is leaving open the possibility of challenging McConnell for Senate GOP, although he’s more likely to seek the presidency.
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Rob Flaherty
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Good flag. The link was in error — we think an errant copy/paste — and that’s our mistake. It is now fixed.
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Rep. Victoria Spartz
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Just what the American people want...to be driven to a campaign donation page from @POTUS Biden’s official @WhiteHouse website. I sent a letter to @US_OSC to investigate.
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“The President’s view is that the major platforms have a responsibility – for the health and safety of all Americans – to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, misinfo and disinfo – especially related to COVID-19 vaccinations and elections.”
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Aaron Rupar
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"We're not going to have any comment on the future of the former president's social media platform" -- Jen Psaki
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Infrastructure week baybeeeeee
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i mean
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Steven Portnoy
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On federal land, flanked by US Marines, President Biden ramps up his argument against his political opposition, warning of the perils of Trump-inspired politics.
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CNN, 1796: a profoundly political and partisan speech, unbecoming a president who -- in an abdication of norms and an act of cowardice -- is vacating his seat of power
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When even Fox News is like "man, I dunno..."
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
2 years
"You don't think it was a bridge too far to make the link with Nuremberg and Nazis?" -- Tom Cotton's smear of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for defending Gitmo detainees seems to be a bit much even for Fox News
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I'm no expert but I think this might have had something to do with the border security
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Rob Flaherty
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9 million views across the internet in just over two hours on this one
@nickjonas
Nick Jonas
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Dinner plans @POTUS ?
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Rob Flaherty
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A thing I've been thinking about, related to this piece: Succession S3 Premiere: 1.4 million viewers (including streaming) Yellowstone S4 Premiere: 14.7 Million viewers (no streaming)
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Rob Flaherty
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Americans are unified around wanting us to deliver real, direct COVID relief!
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Guy Cecil
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75% of swing voters in AZ, FL, GA, MI, NV, PA & WI support the covid relief package ➡️ 61% of Clinton to Trump voters ➡️ 84% of Trump to Biden voters ➡️ 69% of Trump voters who voted for a Democrat down ballot ➡️ 83% of Biden voters who voted for Republicans down ballot.
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👀👀👀 You might say vaccines are…. …Good 4 U
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Joe Biden, in two tweets
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Vax on Masks off Vaccines WORK!
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We're a popular, bipartisanly-supported things factory over here.
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Kyle Griffin
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Politico Playbook: By a 2-to-1 margin, registered voters backed a hypothetical $3 trillion infrastructure package financed by tax increases on those making over $400,000 as well as raising the corporate tax rate.
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The President's pocket square fold is infrastructure.
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Rob Flaherty
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Acyn
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“If the Biden administration wants to impress us... double the goal. Say 200 million vaccines in a hundred days. I will be impressed.”
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While you’re here, check out , now translated entirely into Spanish!
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Apropos of nothing: vaccines work
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we did the thing everyone was tweeting about
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President Biden
2 years
This week, I spoke with Victoria and Daria, two Pell Grant recipients who are eligible for up to $20,000 in student loans forgiven because of my Administration's plan. This relief means breathing room for Americans to build a better future for themselves and their families.
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"I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference." - @POTUS
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Good Afternoon to this chart
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Rob Flaherty
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You go, little green man. Have the time of your life.
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Rob Flaherty
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And that’s all, folks. Honored to have served with this amazing team for this amazing President. See you all on the other side at @Rob_Flaherty . Keep the faith — and spread it!
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Full context of the “no federal plan” thing, which I’m sure everyone will retweet just as hastily
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The White House
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Last week, President Biden rolled out a federal plan to support efforts to tackle Omicron at every level of government. Here’s the full clip of his comments yesterday, where he reaffirmed the need for a strong partnership between Federal and State governments.
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Me, deciding which part of the American Rescue Plan to post about
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yes
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Ashley Parker
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“Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional.”
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Rob Flaherty
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Go big — because working families deserve it.
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Rob Flaherty
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As Newsmax knows, Vaccine requirements aren't just popular: they work to stop the spread and get us back to normal.
@Mediaite
Mediaite
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Exclusive: Newsmax Tells Staff It Will Implement Vaccine Mandate
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Rob Flaherty
2 years
Watching the guy whose company committed the largest Medicare fraud in the history of America lie on Twitter about the savings Medicare will generate from negotiating drug prices is sort of funny. It’s like watching Thanos shoplift from Claire’s.
@SenRickScott
Rick Scott
2 years
More lies. This is the guy that just applauded Dems cutting $280 BILLION from Medicare while on vacation at the beach. @JoeBiden spent decades trying to CUT Medicare & Social Security. My plan is focused on preserving them.
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Rob Flaherty
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"We are putting every branch of the military on the chopping block except for the navy, the navy is chill"
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Alex Bolton
1 year
Sen. Rick Scott has amended his 12-point Rescue America plan to make clear that his proposal to sunset all federal legislation in 5 years doesn’t apply to Social Security, Medicare or the Navy.
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/giphy banana peel slip
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Each of the last three ODS hires have been from New Jersey. What they're not telling you is that we're actually forming a Bruce Springsteen cover band...
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Rob Flaherty
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Jeans and a bomber. Respect the drip.
@cspan
CSPAN
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President Biden: " #ValentinesDay is a big. Jill's favorite day. For real." Q: "What inspired you to do this?" @FLOTUS : "I just wanted some joy. With the pandemic, just everybody's feeling a little down. So, it's just a little joy. A little hope. That's all."
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Indeed it is.
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Steve Cortes
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Joe Biden’s America…
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@ZekeJMiller
Zeke Miller
1 year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats will hold a 51-49 majority in Senate following Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia runoff.
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Democracy! It's good
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Rob Flaherty
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Harry Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny Ray
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Rob Flaherty
2 years
The additional details here are not insignificant!
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@POTUS
President Biden
2 years
I’ll be delivering remarks on my Administration's student loan debt relief plan at 2:15 PM ET. In the meantime, go to for more information.
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