Every single one of these North Carolina politicians voted to shut down the federal government rather than allow the Affordable Care Act to continue operating, which will result in a doubling of everyone's health insurance premiums.
Note that, as members of Congress, every one of their healthcare premiums will remain unaffected. Must be nice.
If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:
SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%
Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.
The Republican budget bill working its way through Congress right now will close 5 rural hospitals around North Carolina, and put several more severely at risk.
This is a political choice, not a financial necessity. The same budget adds trillions of dollars to the national debt and slashes taxes for the super wealthy. Why would they choose that?
JUNETEENTH: Today is the first federally recognized celebration of the end of slavery in America. Although the Emancipation Proclamation freed the enslaved Africans in the South in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War in 1865.