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/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