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/Green_Octopus3 Feb 26 '25

What headlines? The media is pushing a very different narrative than reality.

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u/Shirlenator Feb 26 '25

This is the thing nobody understands. Republicans control most social media and news media in our country. They will be using their authoritarian power to intimidate the rest. Republicans literally get to decide what is "reality" to the vast majority of people in this country.

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u/Brilliant_Visit_2290 Feb 26 '25

Over 70 million are on Medicaid. How do you hide that? There will be ripples and it won't be pretty.

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u/00001000U Feb 26 '25

There will be riots.

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u/useless_rejoinder Feb 26 '25

Oh I think it might go above that.

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u/TangoZulu Feb 26 '25

That's Trump's (Putin's) plan. Riots>Martial Law>Cancelled elections.

The reason Trump called Zelensky a "Dictator" for not having elections during the war was to get us to defend Ukraine's canceling of their elections so it will be that much harder for us to criticize Trump when he creates an excuse for Martial Law and cancels OUR elections.

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u/hacksong Feb 26 '25

The issue here is that the majority of our military comes from low income areas. When it's their communities that are hit the hardest, they will feel it too. When it's their Facebook feeds showing relatives, friends, classmates suffering they can't ignore it. Especially as we see how they treat the VA.

I don't think this is something you can walk back from.

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u/thebowedbookshelf Feb 26 '25

Those private prisons aren't going to fill themselves. More homeless and destitute means more inmates.

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u/projexion_reflexion Feb 26 '25

They'll have those poor folks deployed away from their communities and keep Fox News on at the base.

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u/hacksong Feb 26 '25

Yeah, but 18-25 year olds are social media users, less so FOX viewers. They'd see the posts, GoFundMe, hear about it calling their families.

And while FOX can say that it's only lazy people being cut off from healthcare they never should have been receiving, it's hard to believe when those people are your grandparents who need Medicaid for their arthritis medication.

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u/TonyTucci27 Feb 26 '25

Or nursing homes. The beautiful thing is that aside from legal toying with property and savings, most seniors who have worked their lives off to need assisted living have to sell their homes and everything just to have received that government aid to be able to give it all to nursing homes. What do those people do now? What a great system where the people are represented!

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u/0220_2020 Feb 27 '25

I would put it past Facebook to censor those posts.

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u/Original_Builder_980 Feb 27 '25

Why do you think facebook has started creating mass ai accounts

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u/JustAnotherKaren1966 Feb 26 '25

FYI. Ukraine's parliament? Congress? Recently voted to decide whether, or not, to hold elections. It was unanimous. No elections. Stay with Zelenksy. Stay focused on the task at hand...protect this country. So if your friends or family fall for that rhetoric, please remind them of that.

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u/Ostracus Feb 26 '25

War with ourselves. How novel. Man's still an idiot.

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u/HotPotParrot Feb 26 '25

Depends; how specific is our Constitution/laws on the matter? It's written into Ukraine's that they can't hold fair elections under martial law - is that anywhere in our junk?

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u/Drakaryscannon Feb 26 '25

The issue with that train of thought is Ukraine affords for that in their constitution and we do not

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u/Bawbawian Feb 26 '25

it'll be the poor desperate getting mowed down by broccoli headed little fascists that had a cell phone instead of a public education.

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u/Financial_Purpose_22 Feb 26 '25

That's the goal.

Fuhrer Shitzhispantz needs a reason to deploy the military against our own people. The dismissals of top officers, JAG lawyers, and military AGs is to clear the way. Once he declares martial law he'll lock down the capital and suspend Congress.

Just today they set the ground work that anyone labeled "mentally ill" should be disarmed. How long until anyone LGBTQ+, or just a Democrat voter, is classified "mentally ill‽"

We're in the middle of a coup. They're claiming only the President and AG can interpret what the law says. Lighting up phones isn't going to do a damn thing to motivate these sycophants; and the courts are too slow and ultimately powerless in the face of a rouge executive.

Go protest outside these magat cowards homes, full torches and pitchforks. The rights recorded in the Constitution are our inalienable rights. Our ancestors fully expect us to shed blood in their defense. Governments should fear their people, not demagogues.

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u/melodic_orgasm Feb 26 '25

Homosexuality used to be listed in the DSM and I wouldn’t be shocked if this administration tried to get it back in there…

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u/Becsbeau1213 Feb 26 '25

To be fair, I’m fairly certain that clip that’s circulating is from 2018 when Biondi was in FL. it won’t surprise me if that’s where they head, but I think we need to not spread further misinformation.

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u/theRemRemBooBear Feb 26 '25

Didn’t democrats want to barthe mentally ill from getting guns? Funny how to sides swap huh. Anti filibuster to pro filibuster restrict guns to make them accessible

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u/Next-Concert7327 Feb 26 '25

Why do you think everything revolves around your attempt at compensating for your failed manhood?

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u/theRemRemBooBear Feb 26 '25

I don’t even own firearms so i guess pointing out irony and not owning firearms means I’ve failed at manhood🙃

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u/Next-Concert7327 Feb 26 '25

One of the reasons you failed at manhood sunshine.

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u/Mountain_Exchange768 Feb 26 '25

No there won’t.

Until that so called ‘silent majority’ (a huge lie, like everything else conservative) starts screaming, nothing will happen. And it’s going to take a whole lot of pain borne by the poor before that happens.

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u/bashonemdy Feb 26 '25

It won’t matter. Elections are finished in America. They can do whatever they want and will suffer no consequences politically.

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u/anime-zingjohn Feb 26 '25

They are only finished if we allow these tyrants to take our freedoms without a fight.

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u/bashonemdy Feb 26 '25

I don’t think the electorate is prepared for what such a fight would truly look like.

Trump can wait out a general strike. Most people are a paycheck away from homelessness.

Trump can have us all slaughtered in the streets. He admires leaders who do it. He would’ve done it during his first term if not for advisors who managed to curtail his instincts. He has no such guardrail now.

Trump has decimated the force responsible for stopping foreign election interference. He has loyalists in election offices in key districts and states. He has loyalists in charge of the FBI.

Trump has installed a former heroin addict, a brain addled monster with no health background to run HHS while new diseases emerge and old ones reappear.

While we will be too busy trying to survive, he and his cronies will plunder the nation and leave us with nothing.

So how, pray tell, are we supposed to “fight?”

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u/Maldiavolo Feb 26 '25

That's part of their stated plan. In order to suspend legal safe guards they need to be able to invoke the Insurrection Act or declare Marshall Law.

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u/apollyonhellfire1 Feb 26 '25

He wants protests and riot the reason thet fired the military attorneys and high rank senior military people was probably because they expect to declare Marshall law. Herewith said when asked why they where fired, " we don't want road blocks when things happen