Shutdown theology: starve the poor to feed the project. Close hospitals so billionaires can get a tax cut. Call it freedom while you steal the bread from Joe Lunchpail’s table. They say government is waste, but the only waste here is the cruelty on repeat. Blessed be the ones who see through the grift before the premiums double.
So what's not getting done at my agency. Funding for public a safety projects like police cars and fire stations. Hospital construction. School construction. Harbor construction. Every sort of essential community facility. Hope red state people are satisfied.
I told one of my senators to watch his back because I am sure Trump will claim the US Congress is either too WOKE or a terrorist organization (take your pick) and will have them all kicked out of the US Capitol. Dictators (and would-be dictators) do not like competition.
Blue state citizens should withhold any food pantry or disaster aid to Red states. When they whine remind them about this shit their legislators pulled.
From HuffPost on the underlying issue: "Vice President JD Vance offered the clearest explanation of the Republican talking point on Wednesday morning, though it was not entirely accurate. “A lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens, that was funded by the federal government,” Vance said. “We turned off that funding. Vance overstated what the law does — it reduces, rather than eliminates, federal funding for emergency Medicaid, in some states.
In its evaluation of the Republican legislation, the Congressional Budget Office said the provision would save $28 billion over a decade, amounting to about 2% of its Medicaid savings. The CBO has previously said it can’t tell how much of the $19 billion in emergency Medicaid spending from 2017 through 2023 actually went to “illegal aliens,” but the overall sum amounts to 1% of Medicaid spending during that time period.
Anthony Wright, director of Families USA, a progressive health care advocacy group and think tank, noted that hospitals are required by law to provide access to emergency services regardless of a patient’s ability to pay and regardless of whether they have papers. “This issue is about whether emergency rooms get reimbursed, not whether undocumented immigrants get coverage or not,” Wright told HuffPost. “It is a way to reimburse emergency rooms, to help make them whole and keep them open.”
NYT: "Three senators who caucus with Democrats have voted for Republicans’ measure: Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Angus King of Maine. Republicans need eight if one of their own, Rand Paul of Kentucky, keeps voting against his party’s spending plan."
Epstein name-dropped Trump Putin as client.. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon,.. [Updated re: Gov. shutdown/Trump-Epstein Robber Baron schema, Melania & more,.]
The Alpha & Omega of Epstein Cover-up
https://open.substack.com/pub/pc93/p/the-alpha-and-omega-of-the-epstein?r=55nkvn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=truei76o
You could study the writing style of confident experts a bit more, your writing style is a bit close to that of conspiracy theorists.
Updated re: Gov. shutdown/Trump-Epstein Robber Baron schema, Melania and more,. Epstein name-dropped Trump Putin as client.. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon,..
The Alpha and Omega of the Epstein Cover-up ~ Clean New Deal megapost
https://open.substack.com/pub/pc93/p/the-alpha-and-omega-of-the-epstein?r=55nkvn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=truei76o
Ta, Marcie.
Shutdown theology: starve the poor to feed the project. Close hospitals so billionaires can get a tax cut. Call it freedom while you steal the bread from Joe Lunchpail’s table. They say government is waste, but the only waste here is the cruelty on repeat. Blessed be the ones who see through the grift before the premiums double.
Never. Stop. Punching. Nazis. And. Reserve. 5. Extra. Hits. For Russell. Steaming. Pile. Of. Christo-fascist. Shit. Vought.
Barcalounger doesn't quite capture the spirit of it. try Lazy Boy.
What a great sentence; "Now they have caught the car, and are howling Democrats made them chip their teeth on the bumper.".
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The only thing in this story that is NOT terrifying is a Tom Jones reference.
Ai yi yi, Delilah.
Can't Ms. Grijalva sue for a writ of mandamus? (Where the court orders a government official to do his f*cking job.)
So what's not getting done at my agency. Funding for public a safety projects like police cars and fire stations. Hospital construction. School construction. Harbor construction. Every sort of essential community facility. Hope red state people are satisfied.
I told one of my senators to watch his back because I am sure Trump will claim the US Congress is either too WOKE or a terrorist organization (take your pick) and will have them all kicked out of the US Capitol. Dictators (and would-be dictators) do not like competition.
Blue state citizens should withhold any food pantry or disaster aid to Red states. When they whine remind them about this shit their legislators pulled.
From HuffPost on the underlying issue: "Vice President JD Vance offered the clearest explanation of the Republican talking point on Wednesday morning, though it was not entirely accurate. “A lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens, that was funded by the federal government,” Vance said. “We turned off that funding. Vance overstated what the law does — it reduces, rather than eliminates, federal funding for emergency Medicaid, in some states.
In its evaluation of the Republican legislation, the Congressional Budget Office said the provision would save $28 billion over a decade, amounting to about 2% of its Medicaid savings. The CBO has previously said it can’t tell how much of the $19 billion in emergency Medicaid spending from 2017 through 2023 actually went to “illegal aliens,” but the overall sum amounts to 1% of Medicaid spending during that time period.
Anthony Wright, director of Families USA, a progressive health care advocacy group and think tank, noted that hospitals are required by law to provide access to emergency services regardless of a patient’s ability to pay and regardless of whether they have papers. “This issue is about whether emergency rooms get reimbursed, not whether undocumented immigrants get coverage or not,” Wright told HuffPost. “It is a way to reimburse emergency rooms, to help make them whole and keep them open.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-health-care-illegal-aliens_n_68dd4050e4b06c0a3a8bacd7?origin=home-latest-news-unit
NYT: "Three senators who caucus with Democrats have voted for Republicans’ measure: Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Angus King of Maine. Republicans need eight if one of their own, Rand Paul of Kentucky, keeps voting against his party’s spending plan."
Not that I'm a fan of Rand, but why isn't he and Dems phrasing this like they're trying to keep people's healthcare?
Seems like "the Shut Down is Dems Fault" talking point is already taken hold. The reporters never explain WHY they are doing it though
The GOP spin ALWAYS takes hole. Because "fairness."
How about those Epstein Files?