President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will be the ugliest laws in reminiscence, but Republicans in Congress are doing their darnedest to fake it’s beautiful and inflict its provisions on the American folks.
There’s just about nothing that’s good concerning the invoice.
Regardless of the preposterous assertions popping out of the mouth of the White Home press secretary, the laws doesn’t strengthen Medicaid. As an alternative, it should take away well being care from as many as 11 million folks, about half of whom are reported to be working-class Trump voters.
The Medicaid cuts are being applied to partially offset the invoice’s large tax cuts for rich People and large companies which, over 10 years, will value $3.8 billion. Consequently, the invoice will, throughout that interval, add $3.3 trillion to the nationwide debt, thus driving up rates of interest, threatening the nation’s good credit score and imperiling the economic system.
Whereas rewarding the wealthy, the invoice additionally cuts feeding packages for the poorest People. And, moreover, the invoice dramatically boosts funding for immigration enforcement, additional enabling the Trump administration’s radical, merciless and economically idiotic marketing campaign to spherical up 1000’s of undocumented residents who’re peaceable, contributing members of our communities.
Between the cuts to Medicaid and the colossal enhance within the nation’s debt, Democrats have a golden alternative to hammer Republicans for his or her utter irresponsibility earlier than the midterm elections roll round. The problem will likely be to chop by means of the fog of disinformation that shrouds our democracy in ignorance and stupidity, protecting voters from recognizing when they’re being bamboozled.
If the details about this monstrosity of a invoice might be laid out, solely an ignoramus or a con man might name it lovely.
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