BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
@ravi_mangla I really need you to understand that most people judge a candidate on reality. Not what they promise. Most voters are practical and very skeptical of what the majority will vote for. “A good podcast hang” is nowhere on that list
This morning, every single Republican member of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation voted to cut healthcare and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and speed up the closure of dozens of rural hospitals across our Commonwealth – all while increasing our national deficit by $2.3 trillion.
I know there is usually a lot of noise and rhetoric coming out of DC, but what they did this morning has a very real impact on Pennsylvania. Let me explain:
This bill shifts $1 billion in food assistance costs from the federal government onto our state budget. We cannot make up those dollars and as a result, at least 140,000 Pennsylvanians could lose access to assistance they need to put food on the table.
Over 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid coverage – meaning that after a decade of our hard work to reduce the number of uninsured Pennsylvanians by nearly 50%, we will go backwards and 10% of our Medicaid population will lose coverage and become uninsured. This will raise health care costs for all Pennsylvanians – including those with private insurance.
We have 25 rural hospitals operating on a deficit, struggling to survive and relying significantly on Medicaid – this bill would put more strain on them and threaten the closure of hospitals in our rural communities.
This is a bad bill and it will have negative and lasting impacts on our Commonwealth. Any lawmaker in DC who thinks the Commonwealth can backfill this massive hole they’ve created is wrong – and these cuts will have real life consequences for Pennsylvanians. As this heads to the Senate for a vote, I hope common sense and a concern for the people of Pennsylvania will prevail.
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@tatertotsconor She had big opinions until there were consequences. Then she did the “I’m just a poor little entertainer, not a role model”. Also her uncle is a huge maga ahole and she never has smoke for him.
@LittleMammith He seems like he’s one bad grade away from crashing out. There’s nothing particularly charming or passionate about the writing either. Being in the top 5% is pretty common for the places he wanted to go.
if i tell you i can't afford the cost of groceries to feed my family b/c the mind-numbingly stupid, naked emperor of america got bored and wanted to fuck with trade partners immediately to our north and south--
and you tell me to buy a chicken...lol...
When I was in Ukraine in January, I met with a group who weaves camouflage nets that get sent to the front. They've worked 7 days / wk for the last 2 years. They would love donations. Paypal to [email protected] - I've vetted and it's legit. Can provide literal receipts
The most interesting finding from the IDF report on the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri is that only 100 of the 340 terrorists who entered that kibbutz were Hamas. 240 of the 340 were Palestinian civilians. 70% of the Palestinians who attacked the kibbutz were civilians.
This holds across the board. Palestinian civilians made up the majority of the terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7.
500 days ago, Palestinian civilians entered the ravaged village of Kibbutz Nir Oz to search for loot.
Inside a locked safe room, they found a terrified mother, a 3 year old toddler, and a 9 month old baby.
They used power tools to break down the door to the safe room, and dragged out the family.
They filmed and tormented the mother while she desperately clutched her babies in her arms.
Then they kidnapped the Bibas family into Gaza where they sold them to the highest bidding jihadist group in a modern day slave trade.
For 500 days Jews across the world have been praying for a miracle while living a nightmare most Jews have not experienced since the Holocaust.
We screamed their names, put up posters of their images, begged the Red Cross to provide them medical care, and pleaded for their release.
Our cries were ignored, our posters were torn down, and “human rights groups” across the world refused to help even a helpless 9 month old baby.
Tomorrow, on day 502, in an undisclosed location, HMS will deliver the bodies of Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, and Kfir Bibas.
They will film and torment the Jewish people by desecrating their bodies in some macabre terror show broadcast by Al Jazeera.
They will spin and twist and manipulate the truth.
All to cover up the fact that 500 days ago, Palestinian civilians entered the ravaged village of Kibbutz Nir Oz to steal the most important treasure to the Jewish people—A loving mother and her two innocent babies, a symbol of all our hopes and dreams for the future of the Jewish people—and murdered them in captivity.
BDE 😔