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#classwar

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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Look, I don't want to make excuses for the mainstream media here; when a fascist government is actively trying to murder thousands of its own constituents for a small cadre of uber-rich nazi megadonors, that's a story you have to report in honest language no matter what time of day the mass murder plot is revealed to the world. But by that same measure, the fact that the Republican Party is purposely scheduling committee meetings at one on the morning to avoid public scrutiny and protest, while they plot to kill poor and marginalized people to pay for outrageous tax cuts for the rich, is absolutely a part of that story too. It's almost like they *know* murdering poor people and seniors isn't going to be popular even with their own constituents.

commondreams.org/news/house-ru

'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts

"While the House Rules Committee has not responded to reporters' questions about the timing of Wednesday's hearing, critics said it appears to be an attempt to avoid the kinds of protests and public scrutiny that daytime meetings have attracted.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the rules panel, blasted his Republican colleagues over the dead-of-night hearing time, writing on social media that "they have such contempt for the American people."

"If Donald Trump's big beautiful tax break for billionaires is so great... why not pass it in primetime?" McGovern asked. "Why jam it through in the middle of the night? What don't they want you to know?"

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) added that "if you think you are doing what is right for the American people, you don't consider it in the dead of night."

Look, I'm not out here to help the Democratic Party improve its image, but it's hard to disagree with anything McGovern and Dingell said here; particularly as the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" keeps getting worse, and more lethal for labor class Americans all the time. These fascist Republican assclowns know that they're voting to kill their own constituents to pay for outrageous tax cuts and gifts to their billionaire donors, they know that if the people actually understood this folks all over the country would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks; the plan here is clearly to rush this monstrous class war budget through the system under the cover of darkness and then pretend they had no idea how the story would end once people start dying.

Which is why I'd like to highlight Jim McGovern's public statements during that most recent 1 AM hearing; particularly given that I'm not sure how much of the media was even awake for it.

huffpost.com/entry/jim-mcgover

House Dem Scorches ‘Unbelievably Cynical’ GOP Move As ‘Why People Hate Washington’

“This is a farce, an outrageous insult to the people of this country, to bring up a 1,000-page bill at 1 o’clock in the morning,” McGovern said in the hearing. “A bill that’s still being written, by the way, by Republicans, as we speak, in a backroom somewhere, for God’s sake.”

The bill is central to Trump’s domestic agenda: It would extend tax cuts he signed into law in 2017 that are set to expire at the end of this year, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation campaign and newly announced “Golden Dome” missile defense system.

The legislation would offset those tax cuts and expenditures by pushing millions of Americans off Medicaid, however, and by curbing eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps about 42 million people buy food each month.

“And then to try to jam it through Congress in the middle of the night when nobody is watching is just unbelievably cynical,” McGovern, the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said Wednesday. “This is why people hate Washington.”

Plainly speaking, McGovern is absolutely right; which is why it's pretty disturbing that his remarks aren't all over the front pages of every media outlet in America. Furthermore, McGovern's analysis of what the bill actually does is a fair site better than anything you'll hear on CNN or MSNBC as well.

"McGovern on Wednesday called the legislation “a scam” to punish working and middle-class Americans, asking Republican supporters during the hearing why they chose a career in public service “just to rip away” their constituents’ “health care and food assistance and security.”

“And let me say this to every Republican member who votes for this,” McGovern added.

“You own it,” he continued. “You own it. You own every hospital that closes, every child that goes to bed hungry, every senior who loses care, and every American family forced to choose between groceries and rent, between their heating bill and their child care.”

Of course, even McGovern didn't use the word "murder" but I guess it doesn't count till healthcare CEOs are dying.

Common Dreams · 'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts | Common Dreams"They have such contempt for the American people," said Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern.
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

I'm not sure what it's going to take for mainstream media to admit the GOP reconciliation budget bill is absolutely a plot to murder labor class Americans for the benefit of the wealthiest people in our society, but the evidence that this is precisely what's going on here continues to mount. A breaking Congressional Budget Office estimate released last night shows that precisely because the Republican Party's class war murder and theft bill does *not* reduce the deficit, but will in fact increase it, passing this budget reconciliation bill will automatically trigger sequestration under the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act; which is a fancy way of saying it will result in over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. This is of course despite President Donald Trump's promise that the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" wouldn't touch funding for either Medicaid or Medicare.

commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-

'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts

"This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades," said Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear: The deficit will explode so badly it will trigger automatic cuts, including over half a trillion dollars from Medicare."

"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare," Boyle added. "It's reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to the middle class."

Boyle highlighted the CBO's findings during his testimony at the House Rules Committee hearing, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

"This is really the breaking news," Boyle said. "Over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare."

"Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO or Pay-As-You-Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion," Boyle continued. "The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

For those of you who are unaware, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that typically provides coverage for Americans 65 and over; it's at least partially funded by payroll taxes and in a country that does almost nothing to help seniors who are no longer in the workforce, it's a program that saves lives every single day. The GOP has been trying to eliminate or privatize this program for decades, and as such I have a hard time believing these proposed cuts, which again add up to like $550B over the course of ten years, are in any way accidental even if they are automatic. These GOP nazis know what they're doing, and the rest of their budget is devoted to the same goal: killing poor and marginalized people so the wealthiest individuals in our society can pile up more money they won't live long enough to spend. Peter Thiel needs more cheddar to mainstream dystopian fascist propaganda, so Grandma is going in the woodchipper; that's literally the plan here, and it is both entirely predictable and intentional.

Which of course brings up the question of why American corporate media isn't just up and telling you that the Republicans want to kill poor people and seniors to pay for Elon Musk's quest to birth himself a child army by bribing social media influencers to accept his sperm? Could it be because the people who own those media outlets stand to make a pretty penny from the GOP's reconciliation budget bill and they hate poor people almost as much as rich Republican nazis do? Who can say...

Common Dreams · 'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts | Common Dreams"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare."
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