Bigger Medicaid Cuts Got Trump Bill the Needed Senate Votes

Monday, June 30, 2025

To get the votes for Trump's spending and tax cut bill, The Hill writes that the Vice President struck a deal with a group of Senators that were demanding deeper Medicaid cuts in the bill than the version that passed in the U.S. House.

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Republicans' domestic policy bill that is making its way through the Senate would result in deeper cuts and more Americans losing health insurance coverage than the original measure that passed the House last month, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jun 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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The GOP is a Death Cult.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-30 08:20 AM

Remember how the maga idiots swore up and down they weren't going to touch Medicaid?

It just passed only after LARGER cuts were forced in.

Yet they'll dutifully ignore the lie and spout the spoon fed talking points.

Idiots.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-30 10:12 AM

The GOP is NOT PRO LIFE.

They are forced birth.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-30 11:44 AM

Cruelty is the point.

#4 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-06-30 12:12 PM

Even if they expand Medicaid back in the future, it will be too late for many rural hospitals.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-30 12:32 PM

Remember how the maga idiots swore up and down they weren't going to touch Medicaid?

It just passed only after LARGER cuts were forced in.
Yet they'll dutifully ignore the lie and spout the spoon fed talking points.
Idiots.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-30 10:12 AM | Reply | Flag:
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I know, making those who can work or volunteer for a whole 20 hours per week to get Medicaid is a crime. That was part of the rules when Medicaid was started, Democrats and their lazy assed base had to change it so their lazy base could freeload, again.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-30 12:59 PM

Joni Ernst 2026
We are all gonna die!

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-30 01:12 PM

Arm the poor

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-30 01:41 PM

#6 | Posted by fishpaw

That'll be great, getting the Medicaid recipients without arms or legs to finally get a ------- job.

When you die on the spike, remember today.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-30 01:42 PM

People without arms or legs generally wouldn't be considered "able-bodied" there Legally. Please provide a non-partisan citation to verify your claim.

#10 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-30 01:47 PM

#6 | Posted by fishpaw

Don't worry, when that doesn't happen and you regurgitate whatever the next talking point is to avoid acknowledging you've been had...again...we won't be surprised.

You've shown yourself to be a moron who follows without thought.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-30 02:09 PM

The GOP: If people want health insurance, they can get a job and work for it.

Cool...let me know what jobs are hiring 86 year old alzheimers patients.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-30 02:32 PM

They finally got the Bill to be cruel enough to pass.... but hey, they gotta keep the Objective in mind!

Tax cuts for their big donor billionaires not only pays the bills, but it's also a politicians Golden Parachute to a no-show Board position when they retire.

IS that not worth screwing over the poor and middle class?

So Trumpers, the Corporate/Establishment Republicans thank you for your service!

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-30 02:48 PM

Congress should have the same healthcare system the rest of America does.

They're insulated from their decisions.

Congress should also be paid minimum wage.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-30 02:55 PM

The King Clause: Hidden in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill

www.youtube.com

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-30 03:03 PM

"In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism seems to be devouring everything, the temptation is to believe that this time is different."

David Brooks

#16 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-06-30 03:33 PM

Brooks made one of my all time favorite talks recently...

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart) | David Brooks

www.youtube.com

Great insight and great sense of humor, too, he speaks to the Elites as one of them... who came to his senses.

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-30 04:04 PM

so so we members of the educated Elite
did some good things we created the
internet brunch and
mocktails you're welcome

we did some bad
things we designed a meritocracy
designed around the skills we ourselves
possess and rigged the game so we
succeeded and everybody else failed

by age 12 children American children of
affluent kids are four grade levels
above everybody else

by University the
age rich kids are 77 times more likely
to go to university or to ivy league
university than kids from poor schools

in adulthood 54% of the people at Elite
workplaces went to the same 34 Elite
colleges so we ended up creating a cast
system people with high school degrees
die nine years sooner than people with
college degrees

people with high school
degrees are five times more likely to
have kids out of wedlock people with
high school degrees are 2.4 times more
likely to say they have no friends so we
created a cast system even though we
pretend to be
egalitarian

but the worst things we did
were not Material America has a very
strong economy the worst things we did
were spiritual we privatized morality
and destroyed the moral
order

uh George Marsen is a great
historian who said what gave Martin
Luther King's rhetoric its power was the
sense there's a moral order built
into the universe

that if slavery is not
wrong nothing is wrong if segregation is
not wrong nothing is wrong

we took that essential moral order that
holds people together and we decided
it's up to you to find your own truth
find your own values

more of Brook's talk at the link above

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-30 04:13 PM

Just read Medicaid renewal will be every 6 months.

But also, how there aren't enough people to process the increase in paper work.

Seems like a win win for kicking people off Medicaid.

Apparently all our deplorable Trumping MAGA contributors are multimillions, so they won't have to worry.

But if you're poor, and voted Trump and republicans, you literally voted to make your life a lot more difficult.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-30 04:45 PM

"People without arms or legs generally wouldn't be considered "able-bodied""

Surely they can get jobs as navigation buoys. Anyways the Republicans are defunding red states and killing more red state Republicans on average. Less people leaching off of blue state subsidies = less of my money going to you and your welfare state buddies.

#20 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-06-30 04:55 PM

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