Here’s a budget template to help you

Fuck.

Due to the disastrous decision for establishment Senate Democrats to cave on the government shutdown, affording healthcare just became even more difficult. Money is going to be very tight moving forward, especially for freelancers who are beholden to a gluttonous insurance marketplace.

Net worth of caving Senate Dems:

• 4M Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada

• 3M Dick Durbin of Illinois

• 1.6M John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

• 3M Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire

• 2M+ Tim Kaine of Virginia

• 5M+ Jacky Rosen of Nevada

• 3M+ Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Here’s How To Track Your Budget

Utilizing a Google Sheets document I’ve put together to help you track your budget. It’s fairly simple. Create the columns with info you need and with the seat cost on the far right of each table. Then add the total together using the formula shown above, multiplying it by .85 to account for the cut that SPG takes. You can add an additional line to account for taxes, as well.

The bottom of the worksheet hosts a board for tracked current amounts of each table and compared to static goals that you can detail. These formulae are simple – they add together all the tables of any given day by tracking the cells and producing a sum (post-SPG cut). These combine to create a weekly and monthly stat with easy math. You may want to adjust this per month if tracking 5 week months separately from 4 week months is important to you.

Make a copy in order to edit your own.

Here is a link to the document. I hope it’s helpful!