The GOP needed to avoid a big tax hike. So they slashed Medicaid.

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The GOP needed to avoid a big tax hike. So they slashed Medicaid. - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/why-republicans-cant-quit-medicaid-cuts-00439295

More Medicaid enrollees are voting Republican — a result of President Donald Trump’s success in wooing lower-income voters. So, why did the GOP slash deeply into the health insurance program in its megabill?

Three reasons: Republicans desperately needed money to avoid a big tax increase next year, they wanted to claw back Biden-era policies GOP lawmakers say led to lax eligibility checks and more fraudulent benefit claims and they wanted to curb the Medicaid expansion enacted by then-President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats in the Affordable Care Act

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The Republican base now includes more working-class and low-income people, many of whom receive their health insurance through Medicaid. But the traditional sentiment of many Republican lawmakers toward the social safety-net program — that it provides handouts on taxpayers’ dime — has largely remained the same.

That’s become increasingly clear over the past few days and months as Republican lawmakers have crafted their One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The sweeping legislation — which passed Thursday and is now headed to Trump’s desk — includes more than $1 trillion in health care cuts, the vast majority of which come from the federal-state health insurance program that serves more than 70 million low-income Americans.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. They want the working class to die ASAP.

AI is waiting in the wings.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. They're born assholes

Just a bunch of drunken frat boys.