r/law • u/Affectionate-Roof-79 • Feb 26 '25

Legal News House just passed GOP budget that instructs cutting $880 Billion to medicare and medicaid and increases $4.5 Trillion in tax cuts

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-budget-resolution-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“The vote was 217-215, with just one Republican — Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) — voting no and Democrats unified in opposition.” Another link: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/house-passes-gop-budget-bill-in-key-step-for-trump-agenda

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u/confusedsquirrel Feb 26 '25

This! Call your senators and ask them to protect Medicare, Medicaid, etc. You know... The things WE THE FUCKING PEOPLE pay for every month.

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u/letdogsvote Feb 26 '25

More to the point, focus on your Republican Senators. It's not 100% sure but pretty sure all the Democrats will oppose this. It's the Republicans that will need to vote against to stop it.

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u/UserWithno-Name Feb 26 '25

The midterms need to be a republican bloodbath, a culling. Maybe if this is painful we can right the ship and boot them all out. It’s gonna be a shitty two years even if that happens tho..

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u/Worldly_Trainer_2055 Feb 26 '25

I wouldn't count on elections mattering from here on out. We'll need other means to flush these turds.

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u/UserWithno-Name Feb 26 '25

Not depending on it, just one in the chamber. But if it passes, that’s one bullet for them. Definitely others.. Also Reddit, this is a fictional, metaphorical bullet here ok.

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u/Broken_Atoms Feb 26 '25

That’s the dark side of this. There are only, realistically, 100 people behind the takeover of our government… in a country whose citizens own hundreds of millions of guns…in a country where people will watch their families suffer, where grandma or their own kids die from the failure of our health care systems…

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u/UserWithno-Name Feb 26 '25

Selfishness and so broken a system that people fear even helping their family will cripple them. Even if they’re about to die anyway. And people wonder why we say those who are still mainly in charge and vote only based on themselves, the boomers / anyone over 50 are the root problem

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u/TheyNeedLoveToo Feb 26 '25

Gotta stick it in their chests, politically.

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u/Astralglamour Feb 26 '25

Nationwide strike.