- cross-posted to:
- leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
Summary
A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.
Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.
Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.
This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.
Because the only other option kept saying things were fine…
In 2020, there was a different candidate who said things were fine, he lost…
In 2016, a different candidate said things were fine, she lost…
There’s a trend there. Life sucks for a lot of Americans, and it’s sucked for a long time. But we still only have two options, so it’s just going to flip between the parties every four years.
Incumbent says everything is great, and loses.
You can break a lot of shit in four years, more than someone can fix in four years. So overall shit will keep getting worse, unless we can actually run a candidate who can make progress in four years, then run for re-election and openly admit that shit is still fucked and it’s gonna take a while to fix it.
Which shouldn’t be such a huge ask…