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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump says 'we' can't take care of Medicare and Medicaid because, 'we're fighting wars'
Headquarters @HQNewsNow 1hTrump: 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.
Hes 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 Trumps 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
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
walkingman
(10,865 posts)1. Stop wasting my tax dollars on this meaningless war.
leftstreet
(40,681 posts)2. But yesterday his SOS Rubio said...
Rubio: Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. Theyd have a much different country.
I'm so confused
The WHO is making plans to deal with expected food insecurity and no working water processing pants in Israel
RockRaven
(19,375 posts)3. A quote like that is a gift, if one knows how to use it.
ProfessorGAC
(76,706 posts)5. Exactly What I Thought, Too
Should be in every ad in every purple district.
chowder66
(12,245 posts)6. So we ARE AT WAR. TRAITOR!!!
no_hypocrisy
(54,908 posts)7. Now, THERE'S a "pep talk" to take us into Midterm Elections.
littlemissmartypants
(33,590 posts)11. Zing!!
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
Botany
(77,324 posts)9. Not to mention spending $100 million on Trump's golfing @ his own courses which he gets much of that
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.
Wounded Bear
(64,328 posts)12. Grandma's life is a small price to pay to lose to Iran...nt
WestMichRad
(3,255 posts)13. Maybe you can't walk and chew gum at the same time
but most of us can, you *hole. And your blowing through American taxpayers money on unapproved stupid objectives isnt an acceptable excuse for trashing the social progress that has been achieved here over the last century.
senseandsensibility
(24,975 posts)14. I hope he talks about this in his speech tonight
His poll numbers will really tank then.
Joinfortmill
(21,168 posts)15. IMPEACH him, dammit. Just IMPEACH him.