Last month I warned of the massive cuts the GOP has planned for Medicaid in order to pay for cutting taxes for the wealthy elites. Several people replied that they didn't believe it, and that I had TDS.
I've found this trend on the internet to be annoying and stupid. Somehow a few people have decided that they have been gifted with a special ability to know when Trump is telling the truth and when he isn't.

Guess what? You don't have that ability.

Tariffs aside, the big story in Washington this week has been the latest stage in the struggle of House and Senate Republicans to get on the same page in moving toward enactment of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda via a monstrously large budget-reconciliation bill. They got stuck in the very first stage of the process necessary to enact Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill”: a joint congressional budget resolution laying out a basic outline of spending and revenue measures covering the next ten years. This resolution will authorize the next stage, the reconciliation bill itself.

But now they’re finally unstuck, at least for now, as the House narrowly approved a Senate-passed resolution on Thursday.

You poors don't need that food, clothing and shelter. Not as much as a billionaire need a new yacht.

The Republican-led House passed a budget framework this week that sets the stage for sweeping spending reductions across a range of federal programs.

The framework has raised alarms among public health and anti-poverty advocates about potential cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Though the budget text does not spell out specific program reductions, it instructs key congressional committees to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from areas that include these services.

The combined reduction in Medicaid and SNAP could total more than $1.1 trillion over the next decade, leading to the loss of more than 1 million jobs and a $113 billion hit to state economies by 2026, according to a comprehensive analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.

As of 2024, 71.8 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid, 67 million in Medicare and nearly 42 million in SNAP.