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Sky trackers … is that like radar?
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#MICHIGAN (my home state!)
Projected to lose coverage entirely:
Medicaid expansion: ~296,000
ACA exchange plans: ~177,000
Paperwork Hell and/or MASSIVE Rate Hikes:
Medicaid expansion: ~446,000
ACA exchange plans: ~354,000 (including my own family)
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Is this how Trump brokers a cease fire?
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Texas bussed about 100,000 immigrants to sanctuary cities between 2022 and 2024. Now Trump is ordering ICE raids in the same cities to deport them.
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Wait, didn’t Trump just say a couple days ago that undocumented farm laborers and hotel workers were too important to farmers and hoteliers that ICE wouldn’t be raiding them?
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Of course they know how. They must have been told that they could march in route step.
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This illustrates why Trump has been treated with deference by the media since he entered national politics - he’s rich guy with billionaire friends who own media networks. Trump always could make or break a journalist’s career with a well timed word. Only now it’s brazen bullying.
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Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle wtop.com/government/2...
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Joni Ernst was wrong - the big beautiful bill does require discussion of the tooth fairy. The tax cuts are not going to pay for themselves.
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Politics is more like a battle between armies of hoplites in Ancient Greece than modern dance. The ability to survive and win depends on united effort.
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Say that because to accomplish big and worthwhile goals in Congress seems to be a multi year project and requires a cohesive base of support.
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But she is wrong about political parties no longer being needed.
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She is very talented and has a great career ahead.
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Something the Republicans are still in denial about. Trying to always be the party the cuts taxes makes as little sense as trying to drive a car only using the accelerator and never the brake. Yet here we are.
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Republican are mad at Biden because he didn’t take corrective action after the pandemic and to pay for the Ukraine war support. However Biden was at least trying to set the US up to deal with climate change,
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Or during and after a deadly pandemic in the US. Or after a series of billion dollar natural disasters. Or after an economic collapse like in 2008.
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Sometimes it is necessary to raise taxes. Nobody wants to pay more
In taxes, but sometimes taxes must go up. Like when? Well, during and after wars, for instance.
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Eating of myths like the tooth fairy mocked by Ernst, there’s another one incorporated into the reconciliation bill - that the tax cuts will pay for themselves. Don’t bother reaching under your pillow for that either, right Joni?
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Yet Congress has not changed the treaties or laws concerning asylum
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Seems obvious that they are deliberately trying to discourage asylum-seekers by looking like paramilitary thugs
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If the interviewer does not pin them down on that, they can deny any cuts to coverage and get away with it.
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It is lying with half-truths. They are making a distinction between coverage under a policy already issued versus the requirements to renew that policy or to sign up for similar coverage. The lie depends on drawing a distinction between eligibility and coverage.
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Most Presidents would learn their lesson after one time.
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Here's my talk called, "The ethic of the web." From a 2008 panel discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIMB...
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If so, isn’t that really an IRS compliance issue, not a Medicaid issue? Yet the Teum administration has cut IRS resources.
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By Medicaid fraud, I’m assuming he means when people are working full time and maybe having two jobs but not reporting all their income. Getting paid under the table, for example. So if someone qualifies for Medicaid based on having underreported income, is that fraud?
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Another example- claims of climate change fraud. Meanwhile actual fraud now receives less enforcement, eg memecoin fraud and securities fraud.
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Probably Republicans have determined that they can get away with anything as long as they claim fraud loudly and incessantly.
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Yes it was all bullshit.
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All of the emergency powers invoked by Trump are unlawful and an abuse of power because there were no emergencies.
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Something to keep in mind concerning the supposed savings from taking Medicaid coverage away from millions.