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John Widdowson's avatar

This piece of legislation is a disgusting effort to punish the poor, the needy, the disabled, the elderly because republicans consider those people to be 'the problem". They always have and always will. Their reptilian brains do not allow them the ability to care about anyone but themselves. They cling to the lie about "trickle down economics", they live in the past and want to take our country back to the 19th century. I don't understand how so many people vote Republican, when it's obviously against their self interests.

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Vivian Barro's avatar

John, I will never understand that either….

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Kim Hilliard's avatar

Impeach Trump!

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Betsyann Thornton's avatar

No, it’s got to go further. Eradicate EVERYONE with any allegiance to him. Yes, including the Supreme Court judges who put women’s lives in danger.

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Carol Cummings's avatar

One thing that is not talked about enough is that many people on Medicaid are working but not earning enough to afford healthcare premiums. These people are not sitting at home playing video games.

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Ann B.'s avatar

We need

More protestors like this man screaming at the gop

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Terrie's avatar

Remove every single gop congressman who is not abiding by the oath they took. Remove every cabinet member appointed by the felon. Remove the felon and Vance. It’s time for revolution.

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Wanda's avatar

Yes They need to be told in their faces they are Godless Selfish Fools! They should give up their lifetime benefits instead of cutting Medicaid benefits for millions of people to die to appease the already obscene rich! Karma is coming for you All!

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Nyleen Mullally's avatar

What did McConnell say about the people who will be harmed by this legislation? They’ll get over it? Seriously, I thought I heard him say “Let them eat cake.” History has already taken note that his Senate Majority Leader’s direction prevented both of t***p’s impeachments. He was also at the helm during the shameful political game playing that eventually enabled t***p to appoint three justices to the Supreme Court. He is singularly responsible for this corrupt conservative Court to abandon their ethics, morals and oath to uphold the Constitution, and keep handing out rulings that favor big business and their orange mob boss. Do the French still have that guillotine in storage?

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TJ's avatar

Nice punctuation to Sanders' speech.

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SG's avatar

It was the perfect timing.

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Punkette's avatar

Goddess bless this brave protester! Thank you 💙

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D.'s avatar

He’s right. The Senate Republicans are awful, also, greedy, immoral, callus, and terrible.

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CO's avatar

He’s absolutely 💯 right

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Cathy’s Nature of Things's avatar

So many Republicans claim to be devout Christians and yet they persist in prioritizing cruelty over compassion in this budget bill that, if passed, will harm so many Americans. Did I miss the part of the Bible where it said not to feed the hungry or help the stranger?

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Melissa Redman's avatar

Actually no you didn't, because it's not there like that.We are always supposed to do those things.Hungry people and strangers are our place to look after.

I guess our"Christianist"Rethugs skipped over the parts saying this.Someday Karma will have a field day on these yutzes.

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Nyleen Mullally's avatar

They’re all too busy worshipping at the alter of inhumane behavior and insatiable greed. We can only serve one God. They have chosen to follow the edicts of the father of lies. They are antiChristians.

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Terry Zielinski's avatar

When Obama was writing the ACA, remember the RWNs and the death panels. We should be talking about the number of people who will die, many of whom will be children, because they cannot get healthcare. We all know once a child is born it becomes a burden to the gov't they want nothing to do with said child.

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Anne Sterrett's avatar

These Republican cowards are also idiots. They're afraid to vote against Trump's massive screw job for the American people because he'll get them fired from their cushy jobs. They're too stupid to realize that the American people themselves will fire them good and hard next election after this appalling Trump budget becomes reality.

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Dotty's avatar

They're taking from us at the same time handing Putin a Blank check to help with his genocide ethnic cleansing in Ukraine

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Hall's avatar

They are all liars. Doge has said they found no widespread fraud on anything. By able bodied I’m guessing they mean the mentally ill. Work requirements are already in force for the able bodied.

Mentally ill folk can look able bodied but cannot function socially, in families or in a work environment.

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laura oshea's avatar

No widespread fraud and yet the gutted thousands of workers!!! How does that make any sense??!?!?!?

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Nyleen Mullally's avatar

DOGE used a smoke screen to steal our supposedly protected data, fire hundreds of thousands of probationary federal employees because, contrary to records showing excellent work performance, were accused of no longer being an asset or low work production, and stop legally appropriated funding to thousands of approved and vetted grants and awards that they didn’t like or used darts to randomly choose. It was impossible, in a matter of days, for DOGE personnel to perform, even aided by Artificial Intelligence, a valid, comprehensive review of many thousands of grants or a like number of individual employee work performance reviews. They didn’t find more than a whiff of waste, fraud or abuse that they could prove, but they have been imbedded into every agency and department, claiming to be digging deeper in their bogus search. Identified waste, fraud and abuse, again lacking any evidence or proof, is being used to justify the need for the expedient passage of their grossly gigantic horrible budget reconciliation and budget rescission pieces of legislation. Honestly, all I can see are two pictures, one is of a nest of hungry baby birds with their mouths wide open. The other is a stage performance showing a group of actors busy making a mountain out of a molehill.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

I agree with that protester. Yes thank you. If I lived nearer have thought if doing that and now someone has! Good!!!!!

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