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A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.

Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.

Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.

This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.

  • Voroxpete
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    2 days ago

    You’re over thinking it. You’re right, but you’re missing what’s really happening because it’s so much simpler than that. They think he’s not part of the establishment for one very simple reason; he refuses to respect the establishment.

    He doesn’t kowtow to norms. He doesn’t talk the way politicians are expected to talk. He doesn’t act the way politicians are expected to act. And he doesn’t respect the established institutions (which, in Trump’s case, means he’s actively trying to destroy those institutions in order to centralize power).

    This explains why they don’t care that he’s trampling over the rule of law, bypassing Congress, burning down Federal institutions. They see those as necessary things, because decades of political inaction have left them poorer and the rich richer.

    And, crucially, this is an opinion that progressives share. How many people on left were screaming at Biden to ditch the filibuster and pack the supreme court? Both actions that would have disrespected establishment norms for the sake of real change? How many people have been screaming at the Dems to stop reaching across the aisle, despite that being the established way of doing business in government?

    These people want radical change, not business as normal. It’s no accident that Bernie was on a hot streak in 2016 just like Trump was. Both were outsider candidates who promised to radically shake up their parties visions for the future. The GOP saw where the wind was blowing and hitched their wagon, the Dems refused. So the GOP won.

    They’re willing to embrace Trump’s terrible ideas because they assume that they’re not actually terrible ideas (and because they heavily apply the Shirley Exception. The guy is rich, they’re not, therefore they figure he must be pretty smart. And hey, it’s not their job to figure out the right answers, that’s the job of the people they elect. But the important thing is that those be anything other than business as usual, because the one thing they can say for sure is that business as usual has fucked them good and hard. And on that particular point they’re absolutely right.