Well that’s something anyway
#Senate #Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the #House #GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed #Trump to circumvent the #courts & essentially serve as a #king.
#law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-contempt-courts-trump_n_684b9b3be4b0c4fd78ff7f2e
"Well, we all are going to die."
So said Iowa Senator Joni Ernst when challenged on her support for deep cuts in Medicaid and SNAP programs with the proposed Republican budget.
Then after the meeting in which she said this, she posted a video on social media inviting people to accept her lord and savior Jesus Christ.
In 2022, Ms. Ernst stated,
"I'm proudly and adamantly pro-life."
#JoniErnst #ProLife #Republican #Medicaid #SNAP #BigBeautifulBill
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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
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GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Medicaid #Healthcare #Congress #Trump #GOP #BigBeautifulBill
[Financial Times]: Trump’s fiscal policy and attacks on Fed put US safe haven status at risk, economists say. By Claire Jones in Washington and Eva Xiao in New York
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.
Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps
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