Politico got a hold of a leaked list of GOP plans to cut federal spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act www.politico.com/news/2025/01... - ThreadSky

cynthiaccox.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Politico got a hold of a leaked list of GOP plans to cut federal spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/10/spending-cuts-house-gop-reconciliation-medicaid-00197541

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antitractionist.bsky.social•42 days ago

Would be nice if this put an end to Dems talking about working with the GOP. It won’t of course, but it would be nice

dariuspsmith.bsky.social•42 days ago

Would be nice if this put an end to voters voting for the GOP. It won't, of course, but it would be nice.

notthatjd.bsky.social•42 days ago

🫵🏻 💯

jadehawk.bsky.social•42 days ago

ah yes. "limit eligibility based on citizenship status" because of fucking course.

peter-butler.bsky.social•44 days ago

going *hard* after poor people, as expected :(

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•43 days ago

The old, the sick, and the poor. Anyone who doesn’t contribute to their obscene wealth structure.

deshaunweinstein.bsky.social•44 days ago

Just don't be poor!

/s

davidkelley718.bsky.social•44 days ago

“What’s with islands? Get more land. What’s with deserts? Get less sand.”

ramsandhoosiers.bsky.social•44 days ago

SSN CTC requirement….I thought that already was in place.

seekingserenity.bsky.social•25 days ago

📌

hiyopaolo.bsky.social•43 days ago

Welp we told y'all. Hope sitting at home was worth it ♥️♥️😘. We all gon' be in that stew now. Get comfortable.

lutheranzephyr.bsky.social•43 days ago

Horrible ideas paired with an inability to format a Word document. Gross.

adamkotsko.bsky.social•44 days ago

They don't even know how to do hanging indents properly.

lilyfied.bsky.social•41 days ago

😂😂

garethrichards1.bsky.social•44 days ago

Seems a lot of people are going to be fucked and unhappy. Well done for voting trump. Because those saving will not go back into the USA but to tax breaks for his mates. Seems the Musks have found a more lucrative mine than the emeralds. The Trump anal mine

wshawnm.bsky.social•43 days ago

So, so many euphemisms.

delong-jackie.bsky.social•43 days ago

Politico got a hold of = published whatever the hell their Republican sources gave them to disseminate.

beverlymann19.bsky.social•43 days ago

Whatever it is or isn't *intended* as, what actually is is the Dems' '26 blueprint for their candidates' Senate and House races.

maurar.bsky.social•43 days ago

The complete destruction of human life in America so tge rich don't have to pay taxes

keeper7000.bsky.social•43 days ago

🎯

lindatejas.bsky.social•43 days ago

It’s disgusting!

maurar.bsky.social•43 days ago

Agree

robnyc.bsky.social•43 days ago

LOL!

Poor MAGA morons voting in DUH Fuhrer to snuff themselves out.

If WE weren’t ALSO stuck, it’d be hysterical.

maurar.bsky.social•43 days ago

But we are

robnyc.bsky.social•43 days ago

Sigh.

Yeah.

😞

nisaxg.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is going to hit red states the hardest. 🍿

skofarrell.bsky.social•43 days ago

Some pretty good fiction here. Someone needs to call Random House.

kappakatch21.bsky.social•43 days ago

Did I read that correctly in that they are going it increase their own retirement contributions while slashing everything else?

bradrick.bsky.social•43 days ago

Super enjoying the sophomorically Orwellian titles. "Just call it the opposite of the thing it's actually doing. Y'know, like that book about the Apple ad..."

juggernaut22.bsky.social•43 days ago

Trump clearly wants to starve everyone else of money so he can hand it all to the wealthy welfare beneficiaries.

rkoziol.bsky.social•43 days ago

@muellershewrote.bsky.social

leorellie.bsky.social•43 days ago

To paraphrase a yiddish curse: "A House should only fall on them - a Senate too."

shampoochan13.bsky.social•44 days ago

Wayback machine to archive and archive dot is; too.

deborahe.bsky.social•43 days ago

Well #BlueStatesShouldDefundRedStates
That way, the Governors will have the $$ to cover the losses while NOT letting their constituents starve, become ill or die homeless.

Fuck The GOP

hellomyfriend67.bsky.social•43 days ago

And MAGA Morons think this will help them. LOL.

bavijo.bsky.social•43 days ago

Of course they are. I bet this was the “little secret” between Johnson and Trump.

splatterthought.bsky.social•43 days ago

This doesn't produce productive people or societies.
It exacerbates & creates immediate & delayed hardship & problems that cascade in ways that are corrosive to civil society and cost ten times as much to deal with while exponentially increasing inequality of opportunity.

Conservatism.

kwags1981.bsky.social•43 days ago

Elon already said we are going to need to suffer

splatterthought.bsky.social•43 days ago

Indeed.
But they've been recommending bootstraps & ignoring their own spurs and resource wrangling longer than I've been alive.

dailymeltdown99.bsky.social•41 days ago

Elon could end hunger and homelessness in this country and still have billions, but he needs to be the first Trillionaire and conquer the world. Selfish, hateful asshole.

kwags1981.bsky.social•41 days ago

It is nuts to even think about someone having that much money.

joanalker1.bsky.social•43 days ago

My colleague Andy Schneider's new blog on the truth re fraud and abuse in Medicaid
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/10/the-truth-about-fraud-against-medicaid/

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

Call it the truth about how the public knows nothing about how fraud is done by those whom are supposedly stopping the fraud. We will be looking for this work from you Mrs/Ms. Alker!

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

Let the people see,and know what really goes own. It is no longer innocent until proven guilty. It is guilty until you prove your innocences. And pray that you have the means($) to prove your innocences. And best of luck finding a lawyer that want pillage you more than those doing the investigation.

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

Defrauded the government out of over 5 million dollars. He was blessed enough to be able to have an independent auditor, audit this 5 million. Turns out it was around 100,000$. And this was from coding issues not from deliberate fraud. Tell this Mrs/Ms. Alker. Let the American people that view your

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

The defendants are never given a far opportunity to prove their innocence. Now you need to write about the unethical practices used to convict and gain these so called fraud cases. Write about fraud from both sides. And let the people see how this really works. One gentleman was to have supposedly

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

By high and dry, even before guilt is proven. Bank accounts are frozen if not completely raped by the investigating authorities, which makes it impossible to defend themselves. They conspire to gain a conviction by hook or crook. Usually the latter. This kind of writing does not ever tell how

9114scentralave.bsky.social•43 days ago

Now the question must be, how much of what is considered fraud is actually true. We know that those that did the investigation lie, and conspire to gain a conviction.Were the claims ever audited. Were the defendants given the ability to audit. In these type cases the defendants are left high and dry

joekay.bsky.social•43 days ago

I don't see anything bad in enraging even the MAGAts.

I just hope you are all fine with violently bringing down Pres. Musk and VP Trump TOGETHER. 🤷

analyzelon.bsky.social•43 days ago

GOP plans to cut federal spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act

PDF: https://drive.proton.me/urls/DYDYC8TRHW#wiyUsndFjuMp

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buetter.bsky.social•43 days ago

Interested in MAGA reactions.

robinbeltane.bsky.social•43 days ago

"cradle to grave dependence"
Imagine healthcare for a lifetime. The audacity.

rossanori.bsky.social•43 days ago

Cradle to grave sounds like Congressional entitlements after just two terms

harlemj11.bsky.social•43 days ago

You get what you vote for!

I’m sure seniors will love the “Medicare reforms”

chocirish.bsky.social•43 days ago

Oh my.

laureanne.bsky.social•43 days ago

Cc
@amyklobuchar.com
@wyden.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social
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laureanne.bsky.social•18 days ago

How hard to respond to Musk’s bs re USAID:

Cutting it to make way for tax cuts for the wealthy and powerful

Making the world and markets easier for China and Russia to expand

A gift to China from someone who does a lot of business there

laureanne.bsky.social•25 days ago

Communicating to the base and for clicks is not enough.

We’re failing the basic measures of being in opposition: communicating in sync to cut through the noise and their media capture (podcast).

Also, we need a center right / center left umbrella coalition. Basic oppo stuff.

laureanne.bsky.social•41 days ago

Begging #democrats to educate fellow democrats about how they dominate discourse. (been doing this since 2016.) I’ve pleaded with POTUS campaigns comms staffs to understand the wiring of info systems. The juicing and rigging of info systems. Pleading for Dems to coordinate messages across channels…

laureanne.bsky.social•43 days ago

Tax cuts for the 1% is the MAGA agenda.

"Johnson and GOP leaders are hunting for trillions of dollars in cuts, with lawmakers estimating Trump’s domestic policy agenda — including tax cuts and border security proposals — costing as much as $10 trillion over the coming decade."

korakine.bsky.social•43 days ago

A lot of the Medicaid section, like "Equalize Medicaid Payments" and "Lower FMAP Floor," is about shifting costs from the federal government to state governments. The states - especially the poorer and more rural ones - won't be able to afford that.

korakine.bsky.social•43 days ago

So, the republicans figure many will use the options available to them to cut Medicaid eligibility in their states, such as backing out of the Medicaid expansion. Congress can then pretend they aren't responsible for the cuts, will say each state is just doing what they think best for themselves.

notthatjd.bsky.social•42 days ago

💯🫵🏻

catfort.fightins.online•43 days ago

How quickly would they be able to do this? Like what is the timeline that these changes would go into effect?

karatebearfighter.bsky.social•43 days ago

How would limiting Medicaid provider taxes *save* $175B? Even in trickle down, supply side world that doesn’t make sense.

cynthiaccox.bsky.social•43 days ago

I’m not sure. Cc @robinr.bsky.social

mar-sky.bsky.social•43 days ago

There goes my job and my healthcare. I am sorry but I will never forgive this. Ever. Any Democrat that works with Republicans is a fucking traitor. Period.

mwplunkett.bsky.social•43 days ago

I hope they do because PAIN is a great cognitive awareness

aaronsojourner.org•43 days ago

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-threats-in-the-upcoming-congress

maddoktor.bsky.social•42 days ago

Americans are going to get what they voted for, good for them.
Don't like it? Vote smarter.

stacymay.bsky.social•43 days ago

And not a DAMN THING about DOD losing TRILLIONS EVERY SINGLE YEAR 🤔🤦🏻‍♀️

stacymay.bsky.social•43 days ago

What happened to “right to life”?? Once they’re here it’s fuck them 😡😡😡😡😡😡

magickenslady.bsky.social•43 days ago

Eliminate TSP G Fund subsidy, they're coming for the retirement of the military and federal workers.

kitty2mom.bsky.social•40 days ago

As a retired federal employee, I am alarmed for so many reasons.

kitty2mom.bsky.social•40 days ago

I wrote a reply to an earlier post, The Watcher. As a retired federal employee, I'm truly alarmed by this. And the entire "Project".

magickenslady.bsky.social•40 days ago

Same, I'm a disabled vet and my husband did his full 20 to get that pension. I have to think they won't be able to pull this one off, of all the things they want they can't expect the country to be okay with THIS one.

kitty2mom.bsky.social•37 days ago

I hope you're right. I worked for 25 years in the Federal courts, am dismayed and in disbelief at that level. I'm losing
confidence that Project 2025 will be weakened or diluted with the many horrible agenda items proposed. The hidden items are worrisome, flying under the radar.

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•43 days ago

“End student loan bailout.” Do they plan to suddenly make people pay or do they want to pull back the promise that people would have student loans zeroed out after so many years of public service?

realtimmcgraw.bsky.social•43 days ago

They’re almost certainly going to try and cut the public service loan forgiveness programs either whole hog or make it nearly impossible to claim

votefornikkib.bsky.social•43 days ago

My only hope is that those who voted for this get exactly what’s coming to them the most.

conniela.bsky.social•43 days ago

the "reversing climate policies" portion of this is just rich, considering everything happening in los angeles right now.

trane313.bsky.social•43 days ago

Those dirty bastards. 😡

heyche.bsky.social•43 days ago

This sickens me.

freeangelica.bsky.social•43 days ago

tl;dr if you're poor, you should die.

femzforever.bsky.social•43 days ago

At the very top “REPEAL MAJOR BIDEN HEALTH RULES ($420B)” is this the prescription drug and insulin caps? If so… that’s gonna be a tough sell.

Actually, most of this is. We need the Dem Opposition Party to kick in

notthatjd.bsky.social•42 days ago

I wondered what that is too -

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•44 days ago

"Reforming" the USDA's Thrifty Food Plan estimated grocery budget so they don't have to pay so much in SNAP benefits is *not* going to help Americans with grocery costs. Plenty of folks around today aren't making these numbers work.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/thriftyfoodplan
https://www.fns.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•43 days ago

📌

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

Digging a little & found some interesting bits:

Poverty is defined based on the "Thrifty Food Plan" grocery estimate & an assumption that poor people spend 1/3 of their income on food. That's ... an interesting choice. Details here:

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

Rs are big mad that Biden had the USDA update the cost figures in 2021, for the first time since 1975! https://civileats.com/2025/01/08/will-congress-pass-a-new-farm-bill-in-2025/

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

They want to freeze the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan except for inflation adjustments, reports @centeronbudget.bsky.social : https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/chair-thompsons-plan-would-cut-snap-benefits-and-ignore-scientific

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

Supermarket News reports "Lawmakers are also considering stripping the president of the authority to increase SNAP benefits, a power originally granted the executive office in the 2017 farm bill." https://www.supermarketnews.com/legislation-regulatory-news/snap-likely-to-take-a-hit-under-trump

fooddatanerd.com•43 days ago

All true! Trump and the Rs are proposing some seriously draconian "reforms" that would significantly increase hunger in America.

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

Meanwhile, 2018 was the last time we had a proper farm bill; we've only had extensions since (because that's preferable to a bad farm bill, one source I've now misplaced suggested).

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•43 days ago

You can look at the most recent available Thrifty Food Plan numbers (continental U.S.) & consider for yourself if these seem ridiculous. Remember, these are used for folks from NYC to rural Michigan & all points between. I live in a low cost-of-living area & can work them; I wouldn't want to in LA.

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social•42 days ago

📌

mrrogerscb.bsky.social•29 days ago

📌

codykinski.bsky.social•43 days ago

Just the ill-natured, bad-faith titles of the sections are enough to invite nausea, but the itemizations are reasons for rage. Truly Orwellian stuff. And from a merciless gang of mobsters who constantly bang the drum of "Christian" piety, too. If there's a hell...

islandofreil.bsky.social•43 days ago

Christians are what they do in the world and have been doing since Constantine. This memo is on brand.

a1j0s3.bsky.social•44 days ago

Eliminating the TSP G fund is dumb and only hurts federal employees/military members who are contributing to their retirement plans.

ocelots1.bsky.social•43 days ago

That’s the point.

kitty2mom.bsky.social•40 days ago

I was wondering what "subsidy" meant, just read about it this morning. So you say it means to eliminate the entire G fund?!
this is insane, and frightening.

dralyssathomas.bsky.social•44 days ago

GOP has it out for federal employees though. There are like half a dozen bills already targeting federal employees/agencies. They want all federal employees to quit so they can downsize the government and also eliminate some departments.

birdy56.bsky.social•24 days ago

They also want Federal employees to quit so they can be replaced with loyalists which would be worst case scenario. These replacement people would be there for years to come undermining future administrations

ramblinghillbilly.bsky.social•43 days ago

Exactly!!

boop987.bsky.social•43 days ago

Pure evil. No cuts to Corporate entitlements that I see.

getupswinging.bsky.social•44 days ago

Repeal the prevention coverage…. Ghouls.

lindatejas.bsky.social•42 days ago

😡😡😡😡

maryjanesbiatch.bsky.social•32 days ago

📌

cozmikfaerie24.bsky.social•43 days ago

They're going to give tax breaks to the rich by killing off the poor.

crobertbuchanan.bsky.social•43 days ago

It’s not really a secret when so many of them campaign on it.

banjo99.bsky.social•44 days ago

Per capita caps? Like sorry your cancer came back but you’re on your own paying for this?

amyrulocal.bsky.social•29 days ago

Missing from the politico article is who will be harmed or helped.

clbirds.bsky.social•43 days ago

Predictably shitty

blerdmommy.bsky.social•43 days ago

@alt-text.bsky.social

alt-text.bsky.social•43 days ago

Alt text retrieved

knittergamer.bsky.social•43 days ago

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

bluestockings59.bsky.social•43 days ago

They gotta figure out how to pay for those tax cuts for the wealthy somehow.

ontja.bsky.social•43 days ago

onyx416.bsky.social•43 days ago

Some Americans rail about how China is a threat, but ignore the direct damage their representatives inflict on them.

iamtherealsteve.bsky.social•43 days ago

Make Medicare work for the most vulnerable! With spending caps and work requirements naturally.

deborahe.bsky.social•43 days ago

julessf.bsky.social•43 days ago

@laurellucia.bsky.social @mirandadz.bsky.social

claudiacalhoon.bsky.social•43 days ago

And there is public charge: the rule to penalize immigrants who are eligible for a green card who somehow utilize public benefits but which mostly scares the beejesus out of green card holders with Medicaid or parents with US citizen children eligible for Medicaid or food stamps.

jimbojones77.bsky.social•43 days ago

A green card holder with medicaid is very much a public charge in the normal source of the term.

claudiacalhoon.bsky.social•43 days ago

Not correct. Public charge means “primarily dependent on the government” and under current law receiving cash benefits.

bluestockings59.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yep, we haven't recovered several populations since he messed around with the public charge last time.

seamiracles.bsky.social•43 days ago

same here. it means parents don't get necessary health care for their kids, even in emergency situations. it means they don't go to preschool. further precarity of a life in the shadows.

peggyamm.bsky.social•44 days ago

let the leaks begin

undeadben.bsky.social•43 days ago

taking from the poor to give to the rich

islandofreil.bsky.social•43 days ago

Sheriff of Nottingham ass administration

jimbojones77.bsky.social•43 days ago

It's "not giving quite as much to the poor", not taking.

stephencsmith.bsky.social•44 days ago

Time to run on health care costs going up

kenk1969.bsky.social•43 days ago

The sad thing is how many people voted for the senators, representatives and soon to be First Felon who are just going to end up cutting programs they depend on.

realitycheck.bsky.social•43 days ago

The Medicaid cuts are shameful. Millions will lose coverage. Medicaid is actually incredibly effective at managing health care costs, far better than private insurance. We need Medicaid or Medicare for everyone, not to send more customers to UnitedHealth, or let them die of preventable diseases.

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social•42 days ago

📌

jrod49.bsky.social•43 days ago

And it is a lifeline for those who make just a little too much for traditional Medicaid, but not enough to participate in the exchanges. You’re right. Shameful.

dalynews.bsky.social•41 days ago

Under Trump the new USA will stand for Ununited Shithole of America.You get what you vote for.

flisswave.bsky.social•44 days ago

Setting up intergenerational conflict by tossing crumbs to seniors with one hand while repealing help for the poor with the other. Divide and conquer.

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