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Separately, yes, it is a lot of money. It makes you long for the days of thinking that a $400B defense budget was too high. Reminder: Republican Congress wants to cut Medicaid spending $80B per year, as part of the plan to cut coverage for 23 million people. Meanwhile, they would increase the Pentagon's budget ~$110B over the prior FY.
Separately, yes, it is a lot of money. It makes you long for the days of thinking that a $400B defense budget was too high. Reminder: Republican Congress wants to cut Medicaid spending $80B per year, as part of the plan to cut coverage for 23 million people. Meanwhile, they would increase the Pentagon's budget ~$110B over the prior FY.
Breaks my heart we lost our way as a society because of those we elected in a matter of months....
Tell me how many more programs are the GOP going to cut to pay for this bill.
Back in the day we fought a 2 front war and large business ( which were making fantastic war profits) paid HUGE tax bills.
So today we are fighting a 2 front war, which could enlarge, and we are going to give the businesses and billionaires profiting from these wars a HUGE tax break.
Tell me how bad is this going to work out for the average citizen?
That $$$ will put an awful lot of Saudi Arabians to work
What kind of jobs do food stamps create? Minimum wage and migrant farm labor for the most part, if I had to guess.
Fixed your statement!
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