Every single Senator who hopes that someone does something to "fix" this inherently evil bill needs to explain why they, personally, did not stop it, which any of them could've given that it passed with a tiebreaker vote.
Every single Senator who hopes that someone does something to "fix" this inherently evil bill needs to explain why they, personally, did not stop it, which any of them could've given that it passed with a tiebreaker vote.
They should never know a single minute of peace for the rest of their lives.
Careful now ... talk like this will be cited as an example of how the left needs to "tone down the political rhetoric." Meanwhile on the right, they're openly talking about deporting US citizens.
I will be almost as glad when Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski bite the dust as Trump and all the rest of his cabal.
How is it legal to give specific states exemptions in order to pass a bill?
States, individually, do not have equal protection rights. Congress can do anything it wants along these lines.
Even for a national program?
Yeah. There really are no limits. Any challenge to them would be judged by a rational basis inquiry which can be satisfied by virtually any justification Congress wants to give. And as for medicaid, all of them are administered via state means, so they are not legally the same.