The Trump-Musk oligarchy, with the help of Ben Cline, wants to take health insurance from 262,000 Virginians to pay down on the cost of tax breaks for billionaires.
What a country we live in.
“To make matters worse, these cuts would also deliver a massive blow to rural communities, where hospitals are often able to stay open only because of the dollars they receive from Medicaid. Virginians deserve better than this,” our two Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, said in a joint statement released on Friday.
Trump, in his “big, beautiful” tax bill, has proposed deep cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, the cuts being considered necessary to be able to give trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich.
The stumbling block for Trump is that the more radical Republicans in the radical-enough House don’t think his “big, beautiful” bill cuts Medicaid and ACA spending enough.
Cline’s good buddy from South Carolina, Ralph Norman, joined Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, who said the bill “falls profoundly short” in its cuts to the social-safety net, in voting against the Trump bill.
According to the Joint Economic Committee, the cuts already on the table would force 100,826 Virginia residents to lose coverage under the Affordable Care Act and 161,614 to would lose Medicaid coverage.
“Donald Trump wants to give another massive tax break to his billionaire friends, and Republicans in Congress are planning to pay for that by ripping health care away from working families. These findings make clear that cutting health care to offset the cost of tax breaks will hurt millions of Americans, including 262,400 Virginians who would quickly find themselves with no insurance and no way to pay for a doctor’s visit or the medication they rely on,” Kaine and Warner said in their joint statement.
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