“Kudos to the House Democrats who introduced legislation this week to restore IRS funding,” Christopherson told Tax Notes. “But, let’s be clear, this bill wouldn’t be necessary if Democratic leaders hadn’t aided and abetted GOP efforts to gut that funding in the first place.”

“If the call volume across multiple IRS numbers is so high that callers aren't even put into a queue but are told to ‘call the next day’ and then promptly hung up on, that suggests a complete collapse of IRS's ability to manage operations."

Christopherson emphasized that, because of this dynamic, “Democrats should not be doing them any favors” that could make Republicans’ balancing act easier by allowing rescissions under the regular budget process. “It sends a very bad signal if Democrats don’t put up a fight [to save the IRS],” Christopherson said.

“I cannot tell you who to vote for,” said Sarah Christopherson, a former congressional staffer and tax justice advocate. “But what I am allowed to tell you is what members of Congress did.”

“It’s the classic, ‘We want to have our cake and eat it too,’” said Sarah Christopherson of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), an advocacy coalition. “Corporations are saying: ‘We want to keep every last one of those corporate tax cuts that we got [in 2017]. And also, we want you to double down and give us $600bn more.’”

The differing efficacies [between vaccines] raise the possibility that some people will see the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as second class, Sarah Christopherson, the policy advocacy director at the National Women’s Health Network, told an FDA advisory committee meeting Friday.

Sarah Christopherson, a policy advocacy director at the National Women’s Health Network, said the J&J vaccine will improve access and save lives but people might need help in understanding its strengths versus vaccines that were tested and approved weeks ago.

"Before authorization is granted, affected communities need to have confidence that the vaccine is safe and effective," said Sarah Christopherson of the National Women’s Health Network.

This means that if you get your health care through Medicaid, the military, or the federal government, you can’t get abortion care covered, says Sarah Christopherson, policy advocacy director for the National Women’s Health Network.

Christopherson said many well-meaning public health initiatives have unforeseen consequences for women who formula-feed.

“If the ACA were to be repealed by the Supreme Court, it would be catastrophic for everybody because the ACA is so deeply ingrained in the health system at this point, even the Trump administration’s own priorities, like opioids and prescription drug prices, all depend on the ACA to work,” Christopherson said.