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bigtree

(94,265 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 06:53 PM 2 hrs ago

Trump says 'we' can't take care of Medicare and Medicaid because, 'we're fighting wars'

Headquarters @HQNewsNow 1h
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things

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Katherine Clark @TeamKClark 53m
Read that again.

He’s openly calling to cut your health care to fund his war with Iran.


Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen
Over 400 hospitals across America are at risk of closure or cutting services directly as a result of Medicaid cuts in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill.

Trump's $1 TRILLION Medicaid cut helped finance $1 TRILLION in tax cuts just for the top 1%.

This monstrosity must be reversed.



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Trump says 'we' can't take care of Medicare and Medicaid because, 'we're fighting wars' (Original Post) bigtree 2 hrs ago OP
Stop wasting my tax dollars on this meaningless war. walkingman 1 hr ago #1
But yesterday his SOS Rubio said... leftstreet 1 hr ago #2
Israel enid602 1 hr ago #4
A quote like that is a gift, if one knows how to use it. RockRaven 1 hr ago #3
Exactly What I Thought, Too ProfessorGAC 1 hr ago #5
So we ARE AT WAR. TRAITOR!!! chowder66 1 hr ago #6
Now, THERE'S a "pep talk" to take us into Midterm Elections. no_hypocrisy 1 hr ago #7
Zing!! littlemissmartypants 21 min ago #11
All he had to do was to say no to Netanyahu - and to tell Netanyahu to fight his own damn wars dalton99a 1 hr ago #8
Not to mention spending $100 million on Trump's golfing @ his own courses which he gets much of that Botany 1 hr ago #9
It's a war. It's not a war. It's an excursion. It's a war again. Then not....... It keeps changing with the wind. Norrrm 54 min ago #10
Grandma's life is a small price to pay to lose to Iran...nt Wounded Bear 18 min ago #12
Maybe you can't walk and chew gum at the same time WestMichRad 9 min ago #13
I hope he talks about this in his speech tonight senseandsensibility 4 min ago #14
IMPEACH him, dammit. Just IMPEACH him. Joinfortmill 3 min ago #15

leftstreet

(40,681 posts)
2. But yesterday his SOS Rubio said...
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 06:57 PM
1 hr ago
Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.”


I'm so confused

enid602

(9,686 posts)
4. Israel
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:01 PM
1 hr ago

The WHO is making plans to deal with expected food insecurity and no working water processing pants in Israel

dalton99a

(94,128 posts)
8. All he had to do was to say no to Netanyahu - and to tell Netanyahu to fight his own damn wars
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:23 PM
1 hr ago

Botany

(77,324 posts)
9. Not to mention spending $100 million on Trump's golfing @ his own courses which he gets much of that
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:45 PM
1 hr ago

money back to him in the end too.

Norrrm

(5,059 posts)
10. It's a war. It's not a war. It's an excursion. It's a war again. Then not....... It keeps changing with the wind.
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:59 PM
54 min ago

WestMichRad

(3,255 posts)
13. Maybe you can't walk and chew gum at the same time
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 08:44 PM
9 min ago

… but most of us can, you *hole. And your blowing through American taxpayers’ money on unapproved stupid objectives isn’t an acceptable excuse for trashing the social progress that has been achieved here over the last century.

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