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In reply to the discussion: Trump advisers contemplating cuts to Medicaid and other welfare programs [View all]GoodRaisin
(9,787 posts)56. They charged out of the gate in 2017 going after the ACA with a House bill
that included gutting Medicaid by ~ 750 billion they planned to use to pay for their promised tax cuts for the rich,, then went over to the White House Rose Garden to celebrate with Trump. When they finally didnt get it passed through both chambers of Congress their billionaire financiers demanded their tax breaks anyway, which they immediately voted for and just tacked on to the debt.
Theyll do the same thing again.
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Trump advisers contemplating cuts to Medicaid and other welfare programs [View all]
HereForTheParty
Nov 18
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Plus if they try they're punished as their benefits can be reduced so they're still trapped in poverty.
cstanleytech
Nov 19
#10
They are starting with Medicaid and welfare programs to see what kind of backlash they will get.
Hope22
Nov 19
#17
The thing about food stamps that terrifies me . . .using them to locate "illegal aliens"
Hamlette
Nov 18
#9
The GOP elite doesn't care about the poor, the hungry or the sick. They are the Lords of the Feudal States of America.
C0RI0LANUS
Nov 19
#14
Of course they are. Force every embryo to become a baby a woman can't afford and then starve it.
Vinca
Nov 19
#30
Hit the poorest, sickest, and most destitute/disabled to fund tax cuts for billionaires
CousinIT
Nov 19
#31
We have a loved one in memory care that is supplemented in large party by Medicaid *
Oopsie Daisy
Nov 19
#34
I've been sayin, for DECADES, that if you aren't healthy/strong enough to be exploited/abused
Attilatheblond
Nov 19
#38
what about those who absoluty cant work. and wait till you try to put ur disabled son or daughter on it.
AllaN01Bear
Nov 19
#45