GOP eyes axing popular programs to cut taxes for the rich

[babylonsister]

GOP eyes axing popular programs to cut taxes for the rich
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 4:01:06p EST
Emily Singer


House Republicans have put out a list of items they want to cut from the federal budget in order to pay for Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich—all of which would hurt middle-class and low-income Americans.

Among the more than $5 trillion in cuts Republicans are proposing is slashing $151 billion from the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Republicans want to let expire Obamacare subsidies that Democrats passed which help middle-class Americans pay little to nothing for their health insurance. If Republicans let those subsidies expire at the end of 2025, as they are currently set to do, 4 million people would lose their health insurance, according to a report from the Urban Institute.

Also on the list is a proposal to institute work requirements for Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans. Republicans say work requirements would cut $120 billion from the budget.

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What’s more, Republicans are also proposing to slash food stamps by nearly $300 billion by reforming the Thrifty Food Plan, which "estimates the cost of a healthy diet across various price points" in order to determine food stamp benefits.

All of these cuts would make life harder for poverty-stricken or low-income workers, all so that Trump could line the pockets of his billionaire buddies and deport a large chunk of the nation’s workforce.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. The cruelty is the point.

[SheltieLover]

2. Absolutely!

[B.See]

29. Cruelty ALWAYS was the point.

And we tried to TELL em so. So, 'find out' now.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Instituting work requirements for Medicaid

Has been proven time and time again to be more expensive to police Medicaid recipients who work than it is just giving Medicaid to everyone who qualifies. Also, the majority of of Medicaid recipients are already working.

But, they never learn and insist on keeping up with this charade to appease the resentful crowd that insists that someone is getting something for nothing.

[Rebl2]

6. My Mom

and Dad went on Medicaid in their 90’s. How the hell would they have been able to work, especially since they both had dementia. So glad they don’t have to live through this damn administration once again.

[Mike 03]

12. It's unbelievable isn't it?

This reminds me of that really unfortunate episode in the UK under PM Cameron, where they were forcing people with terminal cancer to board buses and come in to be screened to see if they could work or not.

[Lovie777]

4. Medicare, Medical, Snap.....................

overturn $35 cap on insulin, et al.

Daycare, after school program, school lunches, Department of Education, et al.

And the list goes on.

[a kennedy]

7. My hairdressser told me today that one of her inhaler is now $500!!!!! It used to cost $23

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She has a Dr appointment this week and is gonna ask if there’s possibly a generic inhaler she could use. I just couldn’t believe it. $500. Wow.

[rubbersole]

35. But big pharma has to pay for those stock buybacks somehow.

[Demobrat]

41. My friend gets hers for much less

from a Canadian pharmacy online.

[IowaUnionman]

42. Inhaler price

$600. For Symbicort . Buy from an online India pharmacy $17. It may be illegal but we gotta do what we have to.

[a kennedy]

43. Shut up...... no, sorry......I was starting to doubt, I really did think, how can a gawd damn inhaler

cost $500.00!!!!! So thank you……. Now how many inhalers voted for tRump??? Sorry…..have there been surveys done with all physically, and mentally handicapped voters???

[Evolve Dammit]

20. social security

[Ocelot II]

5. Meanwhile, the face-eating leopards are waiting for their dinner.

[Mike 03]

10. From ProPublica. It's a few years old, but we can look forward to more of the same.

How Taxpayers Covered a $1,000 Liquor Bill for Trump Staffers (and More) at Trump’s Club

A top-shelf, closed-door drinking session. $546-a-night hotel rooms. A special government credit card for Mar-a-Lago. Taxpayers foot the costs — and the president profits.

At some point later that evening, a group repaired to Mar-a-Lago’s Library Bar, a wood-paneled study with a portrait of Trump in tennis whites (titled “The Visionary”) hanging nearby. The group asked the bartender to leave the room so it “could speak confidentially,” according to an email written by Mar-a-Lago’s catering director, Brooke Watson.

The Secret Service guarded the door, according to the email. The bartender wasn’t allowed to return. And members of the group began pouring themselves drinks. No one paid.

Six days later, on April 13, Mar-a-Lago created a bill for those drinks, tallying $838 worth of alcohol plus a 20% service charge. It covered 54 drinks (making for an average price of $18.62 each) of premium liquor: Chopin vodka, Patron and Don Julio Blanco tequilas and Woodford Reserve bourbon. Watson’s email did not specify how many people consumed the alcohol or who the participants were.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-taxpayers-covered-liquor-bill-for-trump-staffers-and-more-mar-a-lago

Something tells me almost every night will be like this, either at the WH or M-A-L.

[genxlib]

16. Sometimes its the details that piss me off the most

So they charged a 20% service fee even though the bartender was summarily dismissed.

I wonder who got that money??

[rubbersole]

37. Eric.

Bussing tables.

[rampartd]

17. the pigs at animal farm are a little more equal aren't they

[BoRaGard]

8. "Ha ha. Suckers and losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P.

[JCMach1]

9. Some of these will be saved by the Corporations in a very tight Congress

Walmart, big grocery, and Big Ag will fight to keep SNAP intact.

Meanwhile big insurance will fight to keep ACA subsidies that largely help red states anyway.

You only have to peel away support of just a small handful of Congress creatures to stop anything.

[Mike 03]

11. All the cuts are bad, but food stamps...

It's so disgusting. It's incomprehensible cruelty.

These people spend more money on one meal than many people spend for food for an entire week.

[rampartd]

18. you might be shocked at how little some seniors get in food stamps

less than 60 a month in some cases pm ny block

[William769]

13. To quote attorney Joseph Welch

'Have you no sense of decency?'

[MagickMuffin]

14. Killing the workforce little by little

I suppose the robots will be more than willing to do the work we used to do.

[Turbineguy]

15. Being a republican is to

save where it does most harm and spend where it does least good.

[a kennedy]

44. How do we get that statement across?? It's perfect, or pretty close to the new talking idea the Dems need....

or what the hell, let’s just change the name democrat to something else??? Repubs did it way back…….chnge their name I mean. We could ya know…..democrat…ugh actually. Used to boil when I heard “democrat”.

[paleotn]

19. No surprise there.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. The cruelty has always been the point. Now it's got express permission. And no checks.

[state of stupid]

22. of course, this is sad and cruel and everything everybody is writing

but it depends on what budget they are talking about. If they are talking about what I call
the 1040 budget then it is just a matter of getting it done. That is the discretionary budget.
Snap and TANF are under the agriculture budget. Part of Medicaid is paid for under the 1040
budget https://hospitalmedicaldirector.com/who-really-pays-for-medicaid/
Obamacare is a heath law under the 1040 budget. Social security and Medicare are separate
budgets that are harder to get to because each is an island to itself.

[babylonsister]

27. Seems they're 'only' proposals at this point, but cutting anything

from people living paycheck to paycheck or worse, sometimes much worse, to aid a bunch of people who absolutely don't need it, that's abhorrent.

[state of stupid]

36. Very true

Most people I deal with do not understand that payroll tax is not the same as income tax.
They cannot even get the concept that there are three separate budgets. That you cannot
fix one by doing something with the other two. The worst thing ever done was unifying the
federal budget where the surplus of Social Security and Medicare made the deficit in what
I call the 1040 budget look better. Now that Social Security and Medicare are in trouble it just
amplifies the problem. All cutting Social Security and Medicare does is give them more money
to fund things like tax breaks for the rich and tax breaks for subsidies for corporations. Sadly
to borrow A Def Leppard lyric "what mama don't know, mama don't see".

[NoMoreRepugs]

23. Rethuglicans are filled with so much anger and hate they probably don't even like themselves.

[rubbersole]

38. Explains the incels.

[Buddyzbuddy]

24. How many people that are affected by these proposed

cuts, didn't vote? Or worse yet, voted for diaper Don? You sure showed us. America is about to go through some sh.t.

[turbinetree]

25. And if you think that Medicare Part A and B are not in this mix......................

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219893135





United States Capitol switchboard at [phone]

[Just Jerome]

26. Filthy &@$§∆√ swine!!!

[angrychair]

28. Oh well

Literally nothing I can do to stop it. I have to assume this is why he got elected. It's why people voted for him. To hurt themselves and/or their family. I can only assume they enjoy suffering.
Given I can't stop it. I cannot rage all the time. It is what it is. We will have to just take it has it happens.

[Blue_Tires]

32. They will happily shred the safety net just to punish people of color

[Horse with no Name]

30. Nursing Homes get the majority of money from Medicaid

Wonder how grandma and grandpa are going to be able to meet the work requirements?

[Blue_Tires]

31. Hey, this is what working class white folks overwhelmingly voted for

Shouldn't they be celebrating...?

Four years from now, I don't want to hear any bullshit bitching and moaning from the so-called working class about how they've been forgotten and neglected by Washington and there's never any policies to help them...

[Johonny]

33. But no taxes on tips, right? Right? Right?

[orangecrush]

34. Anyone using these programs

Which we can safely assume includes a large chunk of his "base" are going to have a big find out.

[Callie1979]

39. How would work requirements save a dime?

If it would say you had to work to get it, how does that save any money?

[Hamlette]

40. notice no work requirements for food stamps?

because we already have work requirements for food stamps. . . for single healthy adults. Know how it works? Horribly. Know why? Single people on food stamps are sometimes not the best workers and the government can't find jobs for them. So, we staff up our state agencies trying to find them work. Save money? Hardly.

[Vinca]

45. Guess people are going to get a hard lesson in why your vote counts.

[kimbutgar]

46. And these a holes says they are such good Christian's NOT!

[JustAnotherGen]

47. This is why i want

My Senators to vote No on everything.

They say - We won't do a total on abortion and you only have to take a 50% cut to ACA subsidies.

Answer from Booker and Kim?

No or Present.

Won work for every state but they will be greatly rewarded at election time.