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Anonymous wrote:According to Senator Wyden, the Senate bill will cut $930 billion from Medicaid. That's more than the House bill.

Red state governors should be furious about this. Like a third of their residents or more are on Medicaid. 40% of the Speaker’s district.

The red state rednecks voted for him and, personally, I don't care if they die from lack of medical care.

When you say the quiet part out loud like that, you're not all that different from Trump and MAGA.

They are getting what they voted for.

No one voted for this. You just sound like a bad pets with your posts.

MAGA absolutely voted for this. It was in the GOP agenda known as Project2025.

Trump promised many times that he would not implement Project 2025. So no, no one voted for this. They voted for the opposite. Don't let your bitterness blind you.

Believing Donald Trump is an extraordinary failure in judgement. They deserve whatever is coming to them and more.

“They” is US!

Most of US here didn’t believe Donald Trump, nor did we vote for him.

+1 the election was clearly stolen. Dems just rolled over because they didn't want to question the election process. But, IMO, they should have.

As opposed to: Democrats know that they would need ironclad proof of any suspicions or accusations— and at that point didn’t have it? What would have been accomplished by questioning the election process without immutable proof, only to have any challenges end up with the current Supreme Court? It’s unlikely, but it would be very powerful if the world’s richest man, at some point, gets impulsive enough to fess up.

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Anonymous wrote:I am sort of curious how it will work to "tax solar and wind" such that it becomes non-viable yet we have expanded energy demand, particularly from the "manufacture" of crypto and AI.

Nuclear.

No nuclear is out. They fired most of the government scientists.

Stop your constant lying.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/doe-awards-rapid-turnaround-experiments-advance-nuclear-fuels-and-materials

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Anonymous wrote:He literally killed the renewable energy industry. The cheapest available energy right now. So much for AI and data center demand. Not only did he eliminate the IRA, but he created an excise tax on any renewable energy project after 2027. Why would he eliminate thousands of jobs. Renewable energy companies actually reshored and now they will all close.

To be fair, these are in the senate bill which still needs to pass the Senate, go to the House for reconcilliation and then possible come back to the senate, so it is possible these parts are not in the final bill that goes to the white house. Given how it disproportionately impacts MAGA voters, I would hope the GOP would come to their sense on this, but killing their own seems to be a value here.

This bill will not be going back to the senate. If it passes, the house will eat whatever is sent to them. The house is more opposed to the Biden’s clean energy funding than senate is.

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Anonymous wrote:Statement from North America’s Building Trades Unions on Trump’s “Big Billionaire Bill”:

“If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country. Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects”

Why? What provisions kill jobs?

There is about 38 billion invested in EVs and EV batteries plants that will be shut down and 200,000 factory jobs. This does not count the construction jobs. These 32 of the 37 manufacturing facilities are in red states. They will be closing or canceling plants in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama etc.

This bill also goes after and shuts down green energy generation. That is 21% of the US grid and was to grow at 12% over the next decade to 45%. All of that stops. Construction is at a standstill still. Texas solar and wind industry is done. In 2015 Texas generated 12% from wind and solar. Now it generates 34%. This was projected to double by 2035. Some days Texas generates 76% of its electricity from wind and solar.

The difference with renewable and fossil fuels is the cost for renewables are up front. Build a solar or wind farm you have to pay for the plant all at once. Fossil fuel a big chunk of the cost is the cost of the fuel but you pay that as you use it. So it is cheaper in the short term without government subsidies to build fossils fuel plants.

The rest of the world is moving forward with this stuff. China has reduced its demand for oil so much that it is now past peak oil. The demand curve for oil is falling for the next decade in China and it keeps getting revised down wards. This is one of the reason for falling oil prices.

Trump and republicans are living in the 1970’s in terms of energy policy. This is f’ing crazy. This will put the US at a serious competitive disadvantage for the next 20 years.

Anonymous wrote:GOP are simply going on camera and lying about the impacts of medicare, medicaid etc saying there are no cuts. Just flat out lying.

I'm sure Johnson's constituents aren't worried because he has reassured them.

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Anonymous wrote:According to Senator Wyden, the Senate bill will cut $930 billion from Medicaid. That's more than the House bill.

Red state governors should be furious about this. Like a third of their residents or more are on Medicaid. 40% of the Speaker’s district.

The red state rednecks voted for him and, personally, I don't care if they die from lack of medical care.

When you say the quiet part out loud like that, you're not all that different from Trump and MAGA.

They are getting what they voted for.

No one voted for this. You just sound like a bad pets with your posts.

MAGA absolutely voted for this. It was in the GOP agenda known as Project2025.

Trump promised many times that he would not implement Project 2025. So no, no one voted for this. They voted for the opposite. Don't let your bitterness blind you.

Believing Donald Trump is an extraordinary failure in judgement. They deserve whatever is coming to them and more.

“They” is US!

Most of US here didn’t believe Donald Trump, nor did we vote for him.

+1 the election was clearly stolen. Dems just rolled over because they didn't want to question the election process. But, IMO, they should have.

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Anonymous wrote:This bill

1. Cuts $930 Billion from Medicaid
2. 16M people will lose health insurance
3. Slashes food assistance for poor families by $186 Billion
4. Lowers incomes for bottom 40% of families
5. Increases deficit by $3.3 Trillion dollars
6. $45 Billion for new immigration jails and another several hundred billion for more ICE forces
7. Billions for defense contractors

The funny thing is the defense contractors are going to lose the NATO market. This will drive cost way up. The only country who will “buy” our weapons will be Israel and they really do not buy the weapons. We give the weapons.

What weapons are you talking about? I completely disagree but I’m more in a niche weapons field.

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Anonymous wrote:Statement from North America’s Building Trades Unions on Trump’s “Big Billionaire Bill”:

“If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country. Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects”

Why? What provisions kill jobs?

“In 2029, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would result in the loss of 1.2 million jobs nationwide, equivalent to a 0.8-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate”

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https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states

Illegals should not get Medicaid or SNAP, so I'm ok with this. Medicaid lining the pockets of hospital systems because illegals get it is wrong.

Leave it to a bunch of nimrods to buy the myth that illegals are getting Medicaid. They clearly have never applied for Medicaid! No WAY would an illegal invite that scrutiny into their lives by the government and more importantly be able to do the required paperwork. Many states have work requirements already. I had to handle my mom’s Medicaid paperwork. It is a bureaucratic nightmare that can only be done in English and even though my mom had dementia and was in a nursing home unable to feed herself; they went out yearly to interview her and make sure she couldn’t work!

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Anonymous wrote:Statement from North America’s Building Trades Unions on Trump’s “Big Billionaire Bill”:

“If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country. Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects”

Why? What provisions kill jobs?

“In 2029, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would result in the loss of 1.2 million jobs nationwide, equivalent to a 0.8-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate”

Explainer:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states

Illegals should not get Medicaid or SNAP, so I'm ok with this. Medicaid lining the pockets of hospital systems because illegals get it is wrong.

“Illegals” don’t get these benefits. But they DO pay taxes into the system that pays for them. What’s freeloaders, huh?

They do. https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/state-health-coverage-for-immigrants-and-implications-for-health-coverage-and-care/#:~:text=Lawfully%20present%20immigrants%20may%20qualify,are%20not%20coverage%20for%20individuals.

That says LAWFULLY PRESENT IMMMIGRANTS, so not “illegals.”

You did not read the whole thing.

Anonymous wrote:This bill

1. Cuts $930 Billion from Medicaid
2. 16M people will lose health insurance
3. Slashes food assistance for poor families by $186 Billion
4. Lowers incomes for bottom 40% of families
5. Increases deficit by $3.3 Trillion dollars
6. $45 Billion for new immigration jails and another several hundred billion for more ICE forces
7. Billions for defense contractors

The funny thing is the defense contractors are going to lose the NATO market. This will drive cost way up. The only country who will “buy” our weapons will be Israel and they really do not buy the weapons. We give the weapons.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is so much fraud in medicare and medicaid, how come we never see profiles of people with corresponding charges? Like, not a single one.

The fraud in Medicaid and Medicare is not by patients, but by shady provider companies.

+1 Like Rick Scott’s company, and then Florida rewarded him by electing him to statewide office four times.

Anonymous wrote:Austerity has never worked for any country ever.
Do any of these senators know this?

You’d think they would learn from history but they do not.

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Anonymous wrote:I am sort of curious how it will work to "tax solar and wind" such that it becomes non-viable yet we have expanded energy demand, particularly from the "manufacture" of crypto and AI.

Nuclear.

No nuclear is out. They fired most of the government scientists.

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Anonymous wrote:Statement from North America’s Building Trades Unions on Trump’s “Big Billionaire Bill”:

“If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country. Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects”

Why? What provisions kill jobs?

“In 2029, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would result in the loss of 1.2 million jobs nationwide, equivalent to a 0.8-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate”

Explainer:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states

Illegals should not get Medicaid or SNAP, so I'm ok with this. Medicaid lining the pockets of hospital systems because illegals get it is wrong.

“Illegals” don’t get these benefits. But they DO pay taxes into the system that pays for them. What’s freeloaders, huh?

They do. https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/state-health-coverage-for-immigrants-and-implications-for-health-coverage-and-care/#:~:text=Lawfully%20present%20immigrants%20may%20qualify,are%20not%20coverage%20for%20individuals.

That says LAWFULLY PRESENT IMMMIGRANTS, so not “illegals.”

Anonymous wrote:He literally killed the renewable energy industry. The cheapest available energy right now. So much for AI and data center demand. Not only did he eliminate the IRA, but he created an excise tax on any renewable energy project after 2027. Why would he eliminate thousands of jobs. Renewable energy companies actually reshored and now they will all close.

And everyone’s electric bill is going to go up by about 25%. From the guy who ran on lowering costs on day one.