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#PresidentBonkers wants to drive up demand for health care insurance. Of course that means his cronies controlling the insurance supply get ever richer at the expense of the people who have given the most to defend America and its values.
A true patriot.
#Republicans #military #Veterans #VeteransAffairs #service #ServiceMembers #medical #betrayal #USpol #law
But the #Trump admin has said it wants more #veterans to seek treatment outside the government system. Political appointees at #VA & their allies have also said they favor a leaner #healthcare workforce because they think #physicians & other #health care providers could be more productive, said one former appointee who is close to the Trump team.
#Republicans #military #Veterans #VeteransAffairs #service #ServiceMembers #medical #betrayal #USpol #law
The #health system grew by tens of thousands of employees under the #Biden admin as more #veterans enrolled in #VA #healthcare after passage of the #PACTAct, which expanded benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Then-secretary Denis McDonough urged veterans to be seen by VA doctors rather than request referrals to private practitioners outside the system.
#Trump #Republicans #military #VeteransAffairs #service #ServiceMembers #medical #health #betrayal #USpol #law
Details of the cuts came into focus in recent days, acc/to 17 staffers at VA & congressional aides….
The nation’s largest government-run #healthcare system has struggled to fill vacancies amid a broader national shortage of #health care workers & a strained federal workforce. Job applications to the agency have also fallen 57% from last year, acc/to the agency’s workforce report last month.
#Trump #Republicans #military #Veterans #VeteransAffairs #VA #service #betrayal #USpol #law
The decision comes after #VeteransAffairs Secy Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from #Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15% of the agency’s workforce through #MassFirings. Instead, the #VA lost almost 30k employees this year from buyout offers & attrition.
The agency hopes that the cuts will reduce the #healthcare workforce to as little as 372k employees, a 10% reduction from last year, acc/to a memo shared with regional leaders last month….
#VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of #healthcare #jobs
Strains on the #VeteransAffairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled #health care positions, including #doctors & #nurses.
#Trump #Republicans #military #Veterans #service #ServiceMembers #betrayal #USpol #law
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“'I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.'
What kind of God would want people to have the right to gun down students?"
#CharlieKirk #ErikaKirk #CBS #BariWeiss #MAGA #Republicans #MassShootings #guns #BrownUniversity
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"On the same night that CBS gave Erika Kirk a 90-minute propaganda platform, we also saw 2 students killed and 8 critically wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University. Let me repeat the very words that Charlie Kirk said about mass shootings –"
~ Greg Meyer
#CharlieKirk #ErikaKirk #CBS #BariWeiss #MAGA #Republicans #MassShootings #guns #BrownUniversity
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"Spread the word about
@marcorubio."
~ Sarah Connell Campbell
#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
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"So as Trump tries to woo Latino voters by wrapping himself in Our Lady of Guadalupe's mantel:
"That’s why, as we end a terrible year and Trump vows to escalate his cruel anti-immigrant campaign in the next one, Catholics and non-Catholics alike need to remember who Our Lady of Guadalupe is like never before. She’s more than just an iconic image; this dark-skinned María stands against everything Trump and his brand of Catholicism preaches."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics
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"Now that Catholics are at the top, they’re the ones pushing policies that persecute the new generation of immigrants, Catholic and not. They mock the exhortations of church leaders to follow the Bible’s many commands to protect the stranger, the meek, the least and the poor by arguing that deporting the undocumented is somehow righteous."
"That’s the sad irony of seeing Catholicism have such a prominent role in Trump’s second term. The main defamers of Catholics in the United States have been Protestants since the days of the founding fathers. They cast successive waves of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Vietnamese — as evil, stupid immigrants beholden to Rome. They wrongly predicted each group would ruin the American way of life."
"A study released earlier this year by a coalition of evangelical and Catholic groups found that 61% of immigrants at risk of deportation in this country identify as Catholic, while nearly one-fifth of U.S. Catholics 'would be impacted' by someone being deported. The latter figure is nearly three times the rate that evangelicals face and four times the rate of other Christian denominations."
As a result:
"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."
But on the other hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals #JDVance #SupremeCourt #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #RFKJr #KarolineLeavitt
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On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Gustavo Arellano writes about the "sad irony" of the role Catholics are playing in the Trump administration and American society under Trump: as he notes, "2025 will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States."
On the one hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals
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In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
"Truth bomb moment: Republicans do not, and have never had, a healthcare plan. And now they’re out of time. …
The hard truth is this: Republicans are fully prepared to let the ACA subsidies expire and send healthcare soaring for everyone. Why? A solid number of them absolutely hate Obamacare, and they believe that making it unaffordable will ultimately kill it."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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Still Just Concepts of a Healthcare Plan
With the deadline looming to come up with a fix, the GOP comes up empty once again.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Millions of people are now facing the prospects of drastically elevated premiums at a time when affordability concerns are already paramount. It’s also a calamity for Republicans politically, who are now set to be blamed for those skyrocketing premiums all while proving, yet again, that they are incapable of finding a health care plan that doesn’t ultimately make the system even worse and more chaotic."
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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"More than fifteen years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) into law, congressional Republicans are still squabbling with each other and struggling to put together a coherent replacement. And proving incapable of actually getting anything passed."
~ Joe Perticone
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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Concepts of Health Care Plans → Humiliation Trying to Pass Them
They still haven’t figured out this health care thing. Don’t hold your breath.Joe Perticone (The Bulwark)
"Subsidies for ACA premiums are set to expire on December 31, 2025. The subsidies were killed by Republicans to pay for the billionaire tax cut in the Big Ugly Bill."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Democrats are likely to emphasize that the cost for extending the ACA premium tax credits—which benefit everyday Americans & which the Republicans did not extend in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act—would be about $350 billion over ten years. The cost for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and corporations and which they did extend, will be more than $4 trillion over the same time period."
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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"The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill of July—the one they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—did not extend the premium tax credits for healthcare insurance bought on the Affordable Care Act market that subsidizes that insurance. Today, Senate Republicans voted against the Democrats’ measure to extend the premium tax credits for three years."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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"Now I'm seeing that attitude kind of infect the healthcare debate ... Republican legislators are coming out and just saying explicitly, like, hey, if you're healthy, you're fine. If you're not, there's something wrong with you and you deserve not to get coverage. You know, you deserve to be sick and meet your fate because it's all your fault."
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Over the last year, it has become more and more common to hear Republicans say things that usually, you know, in years past, you would have seen them having to resign over it, like Trump's rants over Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, just completely racist garbage."
Susan J. Demas
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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Sicker, Poorer, & Hopeless: The MAHA Master Plan | Dr. Rob Davidson joins Susan Demas
Will 2026 be an election about the GOP's giant health care cuts?Paging America (Lincoln Square)
"This is what it’s come to in Donald Trump’s America. Partisan politics has rarely been this destructive or painful. And for so many Americans, it’s a feeling of helplessness unlike anything they’ve felt before. The government is bankrupting and endangering its citizens."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"The Senate managed to fail at passing both a Republican and a Democratic plan — meaning life-saving subsidies for more than 20 million Americans will expire in 2026. Families could see premiums jump by $1,000 or more. This is the cost of Republican dysfunction: fake proposals, political stunts, and real people paying the price."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"The Senate rejected dueling health care bills Thursday, all but guaranteeing that Obamacare subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans will lapse at the end of the year."
~ Jordain Carney
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Premiums will, on average, spike by 114% for millions of people—leaving them with the horrible choice of paying thousands more for their coverage or going uninsured."
~ Emily Singer
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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Thanks, Republicans! Your Obamacare premiums are going to skyrocket.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Thursday that would have extended enhanced tax credits to help Americans afford health insurance, virtually guaranteeing that they will expire at the end of the ...Daily Kos
"The war in the GOP is between those who can do math and those who keep bragging about how many dementia tests they've passed."
~ Evan Hurst
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"I don’t know whether dog catchers are elected anywhere anymore, but if they were, it’s a safe bet that it will be a Democrat catching dogs before Kristi Noem can shoot them."
~ Robert S. McElvaine
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#Trump #Republicans #Democrats #economy #MentalDecline
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A November to Remember: Hope that the American Experiment Will Survive
After a month of electoral losses and political missteps, Donald Trump is limping into the holiday season.Robert S. McElvaine (Lincoln Square)
A Friday thread of zingy one-liners:
"The most powerful, richest country in all of human existence has voluntarily put itself at the mercy of a man who thinks correctly identifying an elephant drawing is some kind of intellectual achievement."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#Trump #Republicans #MentalDecline #elephants
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2025 Highly Competitive at Worst Year Ever Awards Based on "Pure Imbecility" (satire)
And other Friday "Fun," 12 December 2025Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)
"When asked about the millions facing higher costs or loss of coverage, Trump dismissed the concern, telling reporters to 'stop being so dramatic.'
That response captures the cruelty at the heart of this moment. A governing party is openly advancing a platform that strips health care away from working families."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #cruelty
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"Campaigning in 2024, Trump said about Kennedy, 'I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines.'”
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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"According to the Johns Hopkins Measles Tracker, by the 48th week of the year in 2023, there had been 41 cases of measles in the country. In 2024, there were 284 cases. In 2025, there were 1837 cases.
All this from just a kid with a dream, that one day people would die by the millions from preventable diseases."
Paul Waldman
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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The RFK Jr. Catastrophe Holds An Important Lesson In the Uses of Power
Just a kid with a dream, that one day millions more people could die from preventable diseases.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"No foreign entrepreneur or high-skilled immigrant student will look at the US with the sense of safety, security, and opportunity that they did before January 20th. Once-secure research positions at labs, universities, and medical centers will never feel as sure-a-thing as they did."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigrants #Republicans #MAGA #cruelty #racism #misogyny
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"We now recognize and confront strains of our neighbors — especially racism and misogyny — in a way more naked and violent than most of us had believed possible in the 21st century. Decades of progress in welcoming trans people and people with disabilities and different learning styles into American life have been unwound; decades of hard-fought progress by Blacks and women in the military and government have been undone."
"Even if Trumpism fails, America is fundamentally changed. We have always told ourselves 'it can’t happen here.' But it now has — and we can never look at our country the same again. Trump has made American daily life coarser, more rude, and less welcoming to others. We have seen fundamental tears this year in the civic fabric of our country and communities."
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy #cruelty #racism #misogyny
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"The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings."
#Trump #Republicans #affordability #economy #EconomicElites #ApprovalRating
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"Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential."
~ John Henley
#Trump #Republicans #affordability #economy #EconomicElites #ApprovalRating
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%Jon Henley (The Guardian)
"Trump went from +10 to -52 with under‑30s in under a year — a 60‑point faceplant — and it’s all about the economy. Rent up. Groceries up. Debt up. Wages flat. If you’re under 30, Trump isn’t 'your dad’s booming economy.' He’s the reason you’re broke."
~ Lesley Abravanel quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Trump #Republicans #affordability #economy #EconomicElites #ApprovalRating
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dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/1…
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Thwarting the will (and the health) of the American people
Semafor : Obamacare more popular with Americans than ever, poll finds As Congress grapples with how to handle expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, Americans’ approval of Barack Obama�Daily Kos
"The 'affordability tour' is off to a disastrous start. And it won’t get better, because while Trump insists that the problem is you, it’s actually him. And he isn’t going to change."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Republicans #affordability #economy #EconomicElites #ApprovalRating
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"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projects “a $7.7 billion spike in uncompensated care in 2026” if the subsidies expire.
The impact will be most severe in large Republican-leaning states that have not expanded Medicaid, including Florida and Texas, because they rely on the Obamacare marketplace to cover many of their low-income residents. Those states will see their uncompensated care costs rise by as much as 25%."
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #subsidies #AffordableCareAct #ACA
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