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Monday, May 12, 2025

"Let's be clear, Republican leadership released this bill under cover of night because they don't want people to know their true intentions," the committee's ranking member Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) said in a statement.

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Late last night, Republicans released their bill to make catastrophic health care cuts so they can give tax breaks to billionaires and corporate interests. If this bill passes, millions of Americans will lose their health care. Democrats are going to fight like hell to stop (cont in reply ... )

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-- Rep. Frank Pallone (mirror) (@frankpallone.govpeeps.us) May 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM

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"A 2023 CBO report found work requirements for people aged 19-55 would save about $109 billion over a decade at a cost of 600,000 people becoming uninsured, at a minimum. It would also shift $65 billion in costs to states."

Coulda sworn I heard the Lyin' King say there wouldn't be any Medicaid cuts...

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-12 01:44 AM | Reply

Linked article is from December 2023 and has nothing to do with Medicaid.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-12 08:06 AM | Reply

I support the cuts.

It's about time working Americans, especially the working poor, got exactly what they voted for.

They will literally die to own the Libs. Good Job, idiots.

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 10:36 AM | Reply

"Hawley (R) warns GOP Medicaid cuts are morally wrong and politically suicidal'"

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning against his own party's push to slash Medicaid spending, just hours after House Republicans released legislation that could save billions of dollars and make millions of people lose health insurance coverage.

Hawley wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times that paying for President Trump's domestic agenda by slashing health care for the working poor "is both morally wrong and politically suicidal."

thehill.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-12 03:24 PM | Reply

^let them commit the suicide! This will only help build the blue wave already forming for 2026

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-05-12 06:09 PM | Reply

This all must be confusing for Drumpf; people talking about all this, 'morality' nonsense.

Episcopalian Church just opted out of taking White Afrikaners into their relo program, by canceling much of the program, for this same kind of moral silliness.

Authoritarian Oligarchs don't do moral.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-12 06:15 PM | Reply

OK, so the Republicans seem to be abandon the new tax tier for the wealthy but choosing, instead, to target those who can least able to pay.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 06:48 PM | Reply

I can't wait to read how MAGAs will argue that these cuts "actually" will end up improving medical service for poor and elderly people, and also argue how these cuts really have nothing to do with giving billionaires any tax cuts. And MAGAs, being what they are, will believe it too. Hook, line and sinker.

#8 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-05-12 07:46 PM | Reply

Lord I hope it doesn't go through. A lot of people rely on Medicaid to live. I'm worried about this.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-12 08:01 PM | Reply

The fact that Democrats fight tooth and nail against anything that requires able bodied people to work to get benefits is why the Democrats are in the 20's for approval and will continue falling.

People CHOOSING not to work should not get free government handouts.

Section 8 housing is meant to be TEMPORARY - not a 20 year lifestyle choice.

Normal Americans support these changes and these programs never should have been allowing this fraud and abuse.

If Democrats think fighting for people to get free section 8 housing for 20+ years is going to get them votes from Gen Z and the Millennials that can't afford housing despite actually working - they are going to get a big wake up call.

#10 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 08:22 PM | Reply

Section 8 housing has what to do with Medicaid?

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-12 08:27 PM | Reply

"Section 8 housing has what to do with Medicaid?"

They're both programs for poor people.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-12 08:29 PM | Reply

@#9 ... A lot of people rely on Medicaid to live. ...

I agree.

The Republicans seem to be falling back on the lame excuse that people make a choice about needing, but unable to pay for, medical coverage.

I also note that those Republicans in Congress do not seem to be offering data to back up their assertions.


The Republicans just seem to want to take a chain-saw to Medicaid so they can justify adding another 2 or 3 trillion dollars to the deficit.



#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 08:30 PM | Reply

You can use Medicaid to get Housing through Section 8, is the answer you were looking for.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-12 08:30 PM | Reply

The Republicans are engineering it so five or ten million poor people will die off.

It will save the taxpayers money.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-12 08:31 PM | Reply

You can use Medicaid to get Housing through Section 8, i

Did not know that.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-12 08:32 PM | Reply

#11 | Posted by REDIAL

Next cut you are going to hear. Limit to 2 years and shift costs to the states - also, cut homelessness funding as it is completely ineffective as seen in LA.

#17 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 08:41 PM | Reply

Thank God I only have 2 to 5 years to live. The world that MAGA Trumpers want is no place for me. Just sayin

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-12 08:44 PM | Reply

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