This was always the math - it didn’t need a CBO scoring for people to realize this, but hopefully now they’ll wake up. The GOP is going after Medicaid and Medicare to give their rich friends a tax cut. Full stop. - ThreadSky

angrystaffer.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

This was always the math - it didn’t need a CBO scoring for people to realize this, but hopefully now they’ll wake up.

The GOP is going after Medicaid and Medicare to give their rich friends a tax cut. Full stop.

Reposted from Sahil Kapur

NEW: Republicans cannot meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says

The math is simple 👇

House Budget requires E&C to cut spending by $880 billion.

CBO says E&C oversees $581 billion outside Medicare/Medicaid.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Comments

tiltawhirlgirl.bsky.social•1 hour ago

They should take from their own budget first, and then their own medical benefits and pension if they’re going to make us suffer, they should as well.

readandrepeat2.bsky.social•20 minutes ago

And, of course, anything with any connection to Elmo and all members of the crime family and entourage.

tiltawhirlgirl.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Problem is, WE have paid for Medicare while we worked AND are still
paying for it out of pocket while receiving it! 😡😡😡😡😡

trumpwatchdog.bsky.social•43 minutes ago

Where are you cutting back in this Trumpcession?

bluegirl1987.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Anyone posting this on FOX Entertainment, or Breitbart yet? That is where this needs to be seen.

jheckert11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I may need some help to understand - doesn’t the budget framework call for $880bn to be spread out over 10 years? Or is that $880bn cut each of the next 10 years?

hl34.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Speaker Johnson is a clueless clown who sold his soul for power. He's a sycophantic member of Dictator Trump's GQP cult of hateful hypocrites and frauds. Americans deserve better 🇺🇸

juliaconn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We knew this was coming, how did they not??

msderohanes.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Dems in the Senate & House have been warning us about this for the last whole month... People said Dems aren't doing anything. They actually have been sounding the alarms about this.

This means that People in nursing homes will be kicked out, poor children will have no health insurance.

dbpat.bsky.social•7 hours ago

@angrystaffer.bsky.social How long before CBO is eliminated?

franklerouge.bsky.social•1 hour ago

elirose476.bsky.social•7 hours ago

America the capital of stupidity 😕

abrenoff.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The GOP damn better back off and let me see all 10 fingers in the air. My money, not yours. And when you step back, I sure hope there will be a cliff behind you.

econhuskergbr.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Have fun, Appalachia

prsf04.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Stop frivolous spending by the presidency for personal gain.

msdavinci.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Also to destroy all the parts of our government that serve the public interest. They’ve been working at this at least forty years. Recall they wanted to “shrink government so small you can drown it in a bathtub” which of course is exactly the kind of imagery you’d expect from these kind of people.

crazyheart007.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Not only will milllions lose their health insurance, folks will lose their jobs & hospitals will shut down. 💔

duner99.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And when middle class Americans figure out that Grandma in the nursing home that Medicaid pays for is going to be out on the street, then they will learn that the cost of eggs under Biden was pocket change.

prayinfortheplanet.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Tax the rich.

Oh wait...that's why they are dismantling the government.

rinnis-mom.bsky.social•8 hours ago

MAGA still won’t believe it, and when their benefits get cut or, in the case of Medicaid, deleted completely for some, most will find someone else to blame. Hopefully it will finally start to sink in that this is Trump & Musk’s doing. But it’s a case of still too little too late.

welladriansays.bsky.social•4 hours ago

It would be nice to think that. But everything points to their attacks on Medicare - like their attacks on public health and destroying the food supply point to reducing costs, by reducing the population. Eugenics

noneisthenumber.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We pay for our Medicare insurance, too. It's roughly $100 per month.

iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I we are going to get fucked people. Ready to fight back yet. You are days away from losing your Medicaid and Medicare. Hope all of you are extraordinarily happy. I am going to go get a Covid shot now.

miaganga.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Mike Johnson needs to Resign.

mostlysunny12.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They should cut their own healthcare benefits.

drmoreau.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Until it affects those people directly they won’t believe it. Even then there will be some that accept the Trump/ Musk scheme to blame someone else when it blows up in their faces. Regardless of that, broadcasting this news far and wide is imperative.

aff417.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The GOP are all a bunch of fucking liars! The most vulnerable Americans will suffer the most in order to provide tax cuts that for corps & people that DO NOT NEED! I'm so fucking pissed off right now

longislander520.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And it'll be Social Security next.

iamjniles.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Sounds like somebody is living above their means then. They should try cutting back. Maybe don't have Starbucks and avocado toast every day. Also, maybe try downsizing your home. do you really need the million dollar mansion? And 3 vehicles? Move into a smaller apt and use public transportation.

🤷‍♀️

heroicone.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Unless you live in a big city public transportation is a nonstarter.

iamjniles.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Oh believe me, I know. I live in a small town with no access to public transport! 😂 It's frustrating as hell to get around when you can't drive.

But I was being a smartass, just saying what R's would say to D's in a similar situation. Or to people struggling with student loans. "Just cut back".

noblebirth.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Sarcasm is lost on so many.

iamjniles.bsky.social•8 hours ago

If you meant me, my entire comment was sarcasm 😂

noblebirth.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I figured with the avocado toast.

iamjniles.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It's lost on me too sometimes 🤭

sarahbe.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yes!🤣🤣😂🤣

dogsaresocool.bsky.social•7 hours ago

No tax on SS will destroy SS in 6 yrs.

End run to destroy SS.

opprtunnity2excel.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Isn’t Medicare part of the discretionary? What would they do, limit payments and take the difference? How would that be possible given it’s its own tax?

judy-inthecloud.bsky.social•4 hours ago

"If you take healthcare from vulnerable people for a rich man's tax cuts you are a cannibal gnawing at the poor man's bones."

Somebody make one of that there memes and put it on FB for me.

bonfire25.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Political suicide but have it. It will spur the longest Dem reign in US history starting 2026.

kayvotesblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Providing we have midterm elections. Republicans know their careers are pretty much over. But they have no spine because Trump has dirt on every single rat bastard Republican!

bonfire25.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Well, this I don't worry about like others because SCOTUS, yes SCOTUS will prevent that. Roberts and Barrett can already see that these nut jobs want THEIR jobs, and ya know, I just don't see them wanting that lol.

neurodivergentlman.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I’m think that was said about the last trump admin but here we are.

caseyhartman.bsky.social•8 hours ago

American voters have the memory of a goldfish.

sarahbe.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We can only hope. The American’s memory is up there with Trump Dementia.

butterflynana.bsky.social•4 hours ago

By firing people who pay into social security they are backdooring the collapse of our earned benefit. We are a very sick nation with dystopia disfunction misogyny hate racism greed inequality and stupidity at the helm🤦‍♀️ Vote Blue everywhere💙

highestbitter.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Trump:
-Halted funding for Ukraine
-Halted intel sharing with Ukraine (both violations of Budapest Memorandum)
- Intends to end refugee status for over 200k Ukrainians
- Drawing up plans to ease sanctions on Russia.

Support Ukraine if you can, donate to United 24 🇺🇦❤️

freyalux.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Why are people surprised?This was in the PROJECT 25 playbook! We were warned!Now that it’s happening, everyone is shocked! Time to act not be in awe! I mean look who we are dealing with!Not surprising but obvious! The Republicans that enable Trump from fear are the PROBLEM!They have the power to🛑 it

stealthgirl21.bsky.social•8 hours ago

garygsaenz.bsky.social•8 hours ago

But...if you need a traitorous coward, there are plenty of those.

readandrepeat2.bsky.social•5 hours ago

💯, and by that I mean 💯 % agreement, because there are obviously a much greater number of traitorous, greedy cowards.

garygsaenz.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And a box in the Capitol's lost and found just brimming with spines and consciences.

mommynator.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And probably some balls too.

garygsaenz.bsky.social•4 hours ago

D's Nuts.

adamg0013.bsky.social•8 hours ago

You mean they are stealing out money to give to the rich.

jackiegardens.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Some very ugly times are on the horizon for everyone. Who wants their own"savings account" taken by millionaires

cwnol51.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Republicans falsely see Medicaid as a program primarily used by minorities , that’s why they’re targeting it . They’re in for a rude awakening when they find out how many maga are using it . The blowback will be huge .

robertjordan1940.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Beyond that? Fight the good fight.

kjf2025.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The Dems should be pounding this in the brains of every older American in the country. But instead they’re on book tours and voting to censure their own in the House. 🙄

sylviaulloa.bsky.social•8 hours ago

But, but … fraud waste and abuse!!!

warpfactor10.bsky.social•8 hours ago

weasel words for 'let them eat cake'

telecasterdad.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I never want to hear the GOP ever justify any action that hurts the weak, lonly, and marginalized as Christian. There is nothing like their "Christian" love.

Mike Johnson is not a Christian.

cecez2.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And don't forget social security. They're very busy breaking that now.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-social-security-head-warns-system-could-collapse-in-next-30-to-90-days/

jesusforgives.bsky.social•6 hours ago

South Africa still has the highest income inequality in the world, 30 years after the fall of apartheid.
The world Elon Musk is trying to build will not be easy to dismantle, if we continue to allow him to build it.

atticaattica.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Americans have the power to shut this down. If we could only get a single, unified message out to boycott Amazon, Musk, Google, Facebook . . . the big money people. We have to move as one before it is too late.

lingr01.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Of course they are. These Republicans seem excited to take from the old, poor and needy to make sure the oligarchs are even richer. May they all rot in hell when they get there.

lesliejl.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Whelp goodby CBO. It’s the chopping block for them.

showyourwork.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Even using Mikey's unsubstantiated $50B fraud figure, where is the rest of the $$$ going to come from??

msviking.bsky.social•8 hours ago

How many billions do billionaires need? When are they happy?

cat00709.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Maybe when they are trillionaires.......

readandrepeat2.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Never. Incapable.

carolyn-maryland.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t done away with the CBO.

tiredofthisshit.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Why don't the worthless pieces of shit just scale back their handout to millionares and billionaires.

dialabama.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Assholes

iwonder2.bsky.social•8 hours ago

At this point let it shut down...magas at fault!

dhsnwnkl.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Speaker Johnson already signaled they’ll means test and restrict Social Security and Medicare. See the Sunday @meetthepress.com transcript.

gdhlpus47.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Perhaps they should look up the years of the Baby Boomers i.e. 1946-1964. In 5 years all baby boomers will be 65 or older. Imagine approximately 76 million people hitting the streets once they find out that Trump wants to take from the poor to give to the rich.

batti3.bsky.social•6 hours ago

There's a class war being waged, but it's the ultra rich waging an economic war against the working class.

We pay taxes to provide Medicaid for those who need it, not to give the ultra wealthy more money they don't need.

mrchrishain.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Cuts are unnecessary with or without the tax cuts.

lumpyspacetim.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The Trumpers out there who are happy and "voted for this" that are over 65 really think that they have a "few years" left to endure the pain? They probably won't be around to vote in 2028 to collect their "Dividends".

starfyre59.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I plan on being around to vote. I just turned 66

merelymollie.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I plan to be around to vote. I'm 80.

thekatieteeter.bsky.social•7 hours ago

What is happening to stop all the bleeding??

uniqua43.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Christians my ass. This will kill people.

sorcieredeville.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Let’s be honest - no one knows how to stop this, do they?

ekuadam.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They will just say the budget office is “woke” and “can’t be trusted because they are lying”

microveldt.bsky.social•7 hours ago

They have wanted to gut these programs even more than they wanted to give the rich tax breaks. The sweetest money to them is wage theft. That is their life’s work.

philipbenanti.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I was just told from NJDDD that my 44yo sister w/ Rett's Syndrome can't go to LTC after hospital discharge because of lack of funds. She just had a partial foot amputation and PEG tube put in. They expect her to be cared for at home by my 78yo parents of poor health or pay LTC themselves

danieljhansen.bsky.social•7 hours ago

They’re depraved. The GOP has always been opposed to health care for all.

When will the cultists awake from their wretched dream and realize their golden idol is causing them significant pain and undue injury!? Stand up to the man-child!

silkyweineck.bsky.social•8 hours ago

the kicker is that even if the gut Medicaid, they'll still add trillions to the deficit

pytaylor02.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Angry it seems simple to me, get rid of those tax cuts! Problem solved!

daensign.bsky.social•7 hours ago

What pisses me off is hearing my MAGA friends and family saying (with full snark) that we are all overreacting, and that Medicare/Medicaid won't be cut. "Have you seen any cuts?" They won't wake up until they start seeing their, or their family's, benefits cut.

sarahbe.bsky.social•7 hours ago

That will be only way.