Originally published at: House GOP’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Are A Major Point Of Tension With Senate GOP
Congressional Republican leaders are in the midst of a Trump-imposed three-week stretch where they think they can come up with a compromise budget resolution that Republicans in both chambers will get behind by Easter recess. That would unlock the reconciliation process so Republicans can eventually push through elements of President Trump’s fiscal agenda, including border…
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“Making the tax cuts permanent is “a hill that I’m willing to die on,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-MO) recently said.”
I hope you do.
When Cletus in East Shithole, Arkansas, realizes that his government has immiserated him and his community, then maybe we can begin to effectively fight back against this fascist regime. Will the destruction be so apparent by 2026 that voters will take action?
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Far from being a compassionate Christian as he proudly proclaims, Mike Johnson is a cruel and misguided zealot.
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"At the end of the day, I do not think that President Trump … will absolutely do anything that really hurts our seniors or hurts our kids.”
— West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice (R-Welfare State)
I hate to break it to you, Einstein, but he already is.
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Getting lost on all these ‘make the 2017 tax cuts permanent is that the package was too expensive so they had to make either the corporate or personal tax cuts expire at 7 years to bring the law in at their price point.
They decided to make the corporate tax cuts permanent but have the personal tax cuts expire at 7 years.
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This is all BS and hot air. The math is what it is, and every Senator or Empty Gee clone will gladly take part in the Eugenics Wars American Style in the end. Their unstated goal is immiseration and death to the poor and disabled. Anyone who tells you differently is lying. And I hate to suffer along with the MAGAts who signed their own death warrants last November 5.
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Red states will be hit the hardest by Medicaid cuts and permanent 2017 tax cuts. The GOP base never learns.
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Well, I find the comments refreshing AND GRIM. I don’t think the maga voters can ever learn. I think they are the make America(n racism) great again, not smart about the pain. Pain is always ok if they think someone with darker skin suffers more.
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Perhaps Senators from Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama will share with us how many folks in their states are on Medicaid.
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That info is probably already available on the web. Those Senators should be outted with immediate publication of those numbers.
ETA: let’s start here…
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/medicaid-enrollment-by-state
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These guys are all morons and are talking out their asses. We have a trillion dollar budget deficit and 37+ trillion in debt already, and these guys are still talking tax cuts.
The Senate Parliamentarian is not stupid and will probably not allow the trick to make all the tax cuts permanent under reconciliation. Even if she does, they can’t cut enough from the budget to fit into the reconciliation limits on deficits without touching BOTH entitlements and defense.
Also there is the small matter that any changes to SSA and Medicare eligibility and benefits, to make them fit the new budget goals, must be passed under regular order - requiring Democratic Party votes - which ain’t happening under Schumergate.
The Democrats are growing their spines back since Trump’s approval is under water and sinking like the Titanic. SignalGate might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
The GOP has always touted their “superior competance” in governing when nothing could be further from the truth. These guys have never run a profitable business in their lives or they wouldn’t be working for Trump. They are all random losers and grifters. They are NOT serious people who can manage let alone govern, and the public is slowing become aware that with Trump, they elected a bunch of clowns.
It is all going to end up in a last minute deal with Democrats that lets the tax cuts expire and a CR along the lines of the last bill, that makes FY26 budget a carbon copy of FY25 expenditures, because there is zero consensus for anything else.
You can quote me.
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Since the states are the laboratories of democracy, I propose we eliminate Medicaid to Louisiana and let Mike Johnson be the face.
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The counter would be that DC would also have to lose theirs. You know, just to be fair.
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For way too long now Republicans (and even a few Democrats) have cared only about policy measures that really really matter to the rich. Despite the needs and wants of constituents, everything else is, at the very most, an afterthought to them…and usually considered expendable unless they suddenly find they have some personal connection to it.
That fact has driven a lot of bad outcomes, one of them being, as I’ve often observed and often complained, that the two fastest ways to clear a room in Washington are to say either “Medicaid” or “public health.”
I’ve thought that this phenomenon has really made us a part-oligarchy-on=the-slipperly-slope-to-full-oligarchy for years and years and years…Since it’s gradually come to envelope an entire party and part of another in behavior that clearly shows they don’t give a crap for their constituents or for the future of the country. And no actual democracy could operate with so many leading members of the national government utterly discounting those two things. Now we’re seeing that play out more vividly than ever as the REpublican COngress bows to the new regime.
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Mike Lee: “We need to spend more money on rich people, and cut more money from poor people.”
That seems to make a certain cruel plutocratic sense.
But what Lee is actually saying is “We need to spend more money, and cut more money.” It’s not just cruel, it’s nonsense.
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Plus, Jim Justice, I think we’ve got pretty convincing reasons to think that, when it comes right down to it, except for himself there’s literally no one the Orange Creep would hesitate to hurt. He despises everyone.
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Cuts to Medicare are a major source of tension for me too ya goobers
Sheesh!
And then ya wanna throw more money at the already rich folk. Seems you really hate getting elected.
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These Senate GOP clowns are going to cave and Johnson knows it. They are just trying to figure out how they can lie or blame their way out of the devastating Medicaid cuts in their states.
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" House GOP’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Are A Major Point Of Tension With Senate GOP"
Hmmm - let me state this correctly: House GOP’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Are A Major Point Of Tension With Senate GOP because they can’t find any way to blame it on Democrats.
That is their ONLY point of tension.
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Jim don’t read the news. Maybe Jim don’t read at all
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