Originally published at: Walz Calls Medicaid Freeze Out for What It Is: Another Layer Of Trump’s ‘Campaign of Retribution’
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz rolled out a sweeping new anti-fraud package he plans to ask his state legislature to pass just one day after Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration would freeze $259 million in Medicaid funding for Minnesota. During a press conference announcing the package, which he claimed the Trump administration…
Makes complete sense when you punish someone to make it worse by taking away mechanisms to improve behavior.
It’s for your own good, right?
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Walz said. “It does nothing, and they’ve given us no way to try and show that all the things they asked us to do, we’ve already done. They’re not even looking at that.”
Of course not. They just want the optics to make it look like they are tough on fraud.
This will give Trump new authority over elections, including the power to issue a national ban on things like states accepting mail-in ballots and the use of electronic voting machines.
So all those GOPers will not be able to vote since they are the ones that mostly use mail in ballots…like the CF. And there is no way to get results by midnight with hand counting. I can hear it now ‘ is this a hanging chad?’
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I have an in-law in her late 70s, some dementia, on Medicaid. Were she to lose that here in Calif, replacing that care would fall on my wife and myself and I’m not sure we could replace it. We just don’t have the strength and resources etc.
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IS HE DEAD YET!?!?!???
(This is my complete sentence) 
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Zohran Mamdami proves himself an excellent politician once again. While those of us who comment here would have either picked a (losing) fight or walked away mad, Mayor Mamdami charmed the socks off the iDJiT’s swollen feet and convinced him to release that innocent student. Without a lawsuit or even Supreme Court intervention!!!
A real professional there. May he go far.
Another image from the Kevin Drum collection. Tony:
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The Trump administration has been alluding to enacting such a sweeping hit to blue states for some time.
Can’t wait until we can order the southern states to fix their many, many, many real problems or lose federal funding which will be returned to us taxpayers as unspent funding.
Not only is this Republican administration not helping states, but it’s also deliberately wasting taxpayer’s dollars by the bucketful. If you want any state’s rights, you need to vote complete Democratic tickets.
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My late mother had Alzheimer’s. I cared for her at home until she reached the stage where she needed monitoring 24/7. Medicaid covered her nursing home & medical expenses until she passed a few years later. I don’t know what would have happened if it had been taken from her
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Tony is quite the beautiful tabby ! 
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What’s with the disappearing avatars ?
“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes.”
Trump is aware of them because he’s helping them, particularly the Russians.
People in Minnesota aren’t interfering with the election process. Neither are the other 49 states, though I’d check Texas, Florida and the Deep South to be sure.
Yes. South. Deep South. Not Deep State.
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