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"Sure, Jan."
the erstwhile third rail
sadistic Republicans want to hurt other Americans so rich people can have another tax cut
https://newrepublic.com/post/191740/...icaid-medicareHoward Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare.
“Back in October … I flew down to Texas, got Elon Musk to [set up DOGE], and here was our agreement: that Elon was gonna cut a trillion dollars of waste fraud and abuse,” Lutnick told Jesse Waters of Fox News Wednesday night. “We have almost $4 trillion of en lements, and no one’s ever looked at it before. You know Social Security is wrong, you know Medicaid and Medicare are wrong. So he’s gonna cut a trillion and we’re gonna get rid of all these tax scams that hammer against America and we’re gonna raise a trillion dollars of revenue.”
"Sure, Jan."
your gleeful bloodthirstiness in other threads totally notwithstanding, I'm sure
Shoe is on the other foot now, Winester. And as long as it is I'm gonna party my ass off, son.
that's where you're wrong, everybody wears ass-kicking shoes, should they choose to use them
- "Promises, promises."
- Ernie "The Cat" Ladd
Trumplandia wants Americans to lose their so they can crack down
The abortive 2020 autocoup was just a warm up, this time they're waging war on regular Americans
Government allows us to get our arms around problems colletively that we couldn't individually
Even if inefficient, public administration is a per se good
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...lic-health-hhsEvery day, they tackled complex issues with life-or-death stakes:
A failure to get donor organs to critically ill patients.
Tobacco products designed to appeal to kids.
Maternal and infant death.
They were hired after lawmakers and bureaucrats debated and negotiated and persuaded their colleagues — sometimes over the course of years — to make those problems someone’s job to solve.
Then, this month, they were fired as part of President Donald Trump’s widespread purge of federal workers. Suddenly, the future of their public health missions was in question.
The White House hasn’t released figures on how many have been fired, but news reports have begun to take stock: about 750 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which plays a central role responding to pandemics; more than 1,000 staffers at the National Ins utes of Health, which funds and conducts life-saving research; dozens at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages public health care and insurance programs; and scores of employees at the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the safety of food, drugs and medical devices.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to gut the federal health centers, stating “entire departments” at the FDA should be cut. Neither the administration nor the federal agencies responded to ProPublica’s questions, but a White House spokesperson has previously said they were removing newer employees who were “not mission critical.”
“The implications for the health of the public are grave,” said Susan Polan, an associate executive director at the American Public Health Association, which is suing the Department of Government Efficiency, the group leading the firings, for violating federal transparency laws. “It is unfathomable that anybody thinks these cuts have value and are doing anything other than being performative.”
ProPublica reporters have spoken with dozens of federal workers employed in roles safeguarding the American public from harm. They described losing critical positions they’d spent years training for. Many expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.
ProPublica is recording the casualties of the purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government.
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https://thenevadaindependent.com/art...a-sized-pickleThe president’s promise not to touch Medicaid aside, according to one analysis Nevada is in line to lose $1.9 billion in funding as an estimated 300,000 residents lose their insurance.
The ripple effect will be deeply felt — and not only by the poor. With approximately 800,000 Nevadans using Medicaid health care access, much of the working class relies on it as well. Their physicians and related health providers will be hit hard, too.
The state already suffers from a shortage of doctors. Imagine what may happen when they stop getting paid.
And you know what happens when people don’t have health insurance. They get treated at the local emergency room and by first responder firefighter paramedics.
With all that, Lombardo is bound to be busy these days balancing the human needs, the financial costs and the political ramifications. That’s a lot to think about, and so when Ralston asked the question about the scale of the approaching crisis, he answered simply.
The cuts, he said, would be absolutely devastating.
“It’s almost like the pickle’s too big for the jar, right?” the governor began. “Godzilla. How can you plan for Godzilla? But you can’t put your head in the sand and hope it goes away, right?”
cutting HUD by half could have drastic social and economic effects
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-doge-housing/HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post
...that's the rumor.
- "Prove it."
- "Shane" - "Shane"
According to Chris Murphy, Rs have enough vote in the House to cut $2 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid
~60% of Medicaid is home care services
Republicans will kill Americans wholesale to give the top 1% a new tax cut
That ing nazi already defunded Social Security once, obviously he is going to do it again.
Trumplandia is gutting the rights of vulnerable Americans every day
nut and bolts:
https://www.lawdork.com/p/social-sec...ucturing-email
Ugh have ing paid into these systems for more than 25 years and Trump will ing kill them off as he rebuilds our nation into early 1990s Russia.
Nothing more than a boondoggle. A waste of space, time, and money.Trumplandia is gutting the rights of vulnerable Americans every day
Quit mashing the panic button. He hasn't touched SS. If & when he does I'll side ya on-the-spot.
Now, go have luncheon.
wrecking the government's ability to collect revenue during tax season would seem to be contraindicated if the goal were to restore fiscal balance
the chainsaw gives it away, Musk/Trump are vandalizing public capacity
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/othe...ct/ar-AA1A2Jng
Like I've said today:::it ain't gonna hurt to try it Trump's way for the next 4 years, Winester. You're gonna get the con back in 4 years no matter who wins!
If it's worked, whomever is elected will follow Trump's course. They'll have nary other choice.
If it's failed, whomever is elected will return to the fore...aka the last 80 years.
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