As we discussed last week, in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin went to the White House with a plan that, as they relayed to the President, would pass through both houses of Congress. This compromise legislation, they explained to Donald Trump and […]
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Military pawns, racist scum, and living in a nation where no-one’s at the helm… Welcome to the #TrumpShutdown
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown, America First, Bill Kristol, border security, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Chuck Schumer, Claire McCaskill, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dick Durbin, Donal Trump, Donald Trump, Gang of Six, government shutdown, Haiti, immigration, immigration reform, isolationism, Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Mexico, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, open borders, racism, Rand Paul, shithole, Stephen Miller, support the troops, Tammy Duckworth, Temporary Protected Status, the border with Mexico 245 Comments
Republicans after adding over $1 trillion to our national debt to fund tax give-aways to the rich, say they can’t find $8 billion to extend health care for 8.9 million children living in poverty
While sold to the American people as a “middle class tax cut” that wouldn’t help the super-rich like Donald Trump, the tax reform legislation just passed by the Republicans is, in fact, a windfall for the rich that does considerably less for American’s middle class than the Obama stimulus package of 2009 did. Had the […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #CorkerKickback, America Cares Act, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, cruelty, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, New Deal, Paul Ryan, poverty, Republican lies, rolling back the New Deal, social safety net, social security, stimulus, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, welfare 8 Comments