Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid.
They handed billionaires a $3.7 trillion tax break.
They call it a budget.
We call it THEFT.
11.8+ million Americans lose healthcare.
The top 1% gets richer. That is the SCAM.
The worst place to be in America isn't poor. It's middle class with no savings.
Open enrollment texted me, so I went down a Medicaid rabbit hole, and I need everyone to understand how broken this is.
If you qualify for Medicaid, a procedure that costs thousands barely costs you anything. Doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, basically covered.
Make $45k a year with "good" employer insurance? Congrats, you're paying hundreds a month in premiums just to hit a $5,000 deductible before anything kicks in. One ambulance ride and your emergency fund is gone. You don't have an emergency fund? Even better, now it's medical debt.
And here's the part that breaks my brain: the system is designed so climbing out is a trap too. Get a raise that pushes you just over the line and you lose coverage overnight. Try to save money while on disability and they cap you at about $2,000 in assets. Poor people are locked in. Middle class people are bleeding out. The only people winning are the ones rich enough to never think about any of this.
We work full time to be one bad diagnosis away from ruin. This country isn't failing the poor or the middle class. It's farming both.
We are so cooked.
They told you the enemy was the immigrant, the poor, the protester, the teacher, the union worker. Funny how they never point at the billionaires buying the country one agency, one platform, one contract at a time.
@notcapnamerica Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. That breaks down to approx. $8,900/person paid in without receiving the benefits of SS, etc. (source: ITEP July 2024) https://t.co/USLDX88Gy3
No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.
You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.
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The Secretary of State’s voter purge in Louisiana is way worse than anyone imagined because they have already purged over 500,000 voters & put them on the inactive list so the deadline is April 15th therefore you need to go get it fixed before then at your Parish in person only.
You IDIOTS elected a conman to presidency, not once but twice, and now look at you. Can’t afford gas, farms going bankrupt, masked men shooting Americans in the streets, and your kids are dying in Iran to distract from the EPSTEIN Files. While his family makes BILLIONS. DUMBASSES
Kristi Noem spent $220 MILLION on a 60-second ad.
Pete Hegseth spent $93 BILLION in one month.
Trump just gave four Big Tech companies a $51 BILLION tax break.
And you’re worried about a single mom getting a few bucks from SNAP to feed her kids?
Wake up, people.
The equation is simple: you can’t afford healthcare anymore because ICE agents are making 6-figure salaries and $50k signing bonuses. The money is not marked for life, liberty or happiness. It is set aside for state suppression.
Here's what Trump cut in his first year in office:
—$990 billion from healthcare services
—$187 billion from nutrition programs
—$500 billion from clean energy programs and credits
Let's be clear.
Every penny of those cuts went on to pay for his tax breaks for the rich.