So, the State of the Union happened last night. Trump said a lot of random things about studies, and waste, and all this other stuff.
He did not talk about Medicaid. Not once.
It's not just about what Trump is saying — it's about the big obvious things that he is ignoring.
If he was confident about his attacks on Medicaid, he would have said something, wouldn't he? He's confident about his attacks on immigrants. He's confident about his attacks on federal workers. He's confident about all those things.
Why won't he and Republicans own up to their attacks on Medicaid?
This week, they told every Republican in the House of Representatives to stop doing town halls. Why?
Because they're getting too much heat over Medicaid.
What they are trying to cut is to the tune of $880 billion. I sit on the committee that Medicaid goes through — and the math ain't mathin’.
Republicans’ amount of so-called ‘waste’ that they have identified — if you believe absolutely everything in their wildest fantasies — is only $50 billion.
So where's the other $830 billion coming from?
It's coming from grandma.
It's coming from your prescriptions.
It's coming from your insulin. It's coming from your kids' co-pay.
They are setting up to rob you. That was the moral of the story of this State of the Union last night.
Their number one priority is to rob Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and all of our public systems in order to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
But we do not have to comply with illegal activity — even if that illegal activity is coming from the President of the United States.
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Alexandria
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