So if they stop those cuts, that increases the debt even more... I'm all for reversing the cuts. They still have their tax cuts, and we still have the bill. They should decrease the tax cuts by an equitable amount. Seems fair, no?

Whoever said they play fair?

What a pussy.

Hawley is such a fraud:

It’s inexplicable. There is no way to back out or say he didn’t know, he was told. 🤷🏻‍♂️

So vote for trumps bill then select roll back per supporting group? Is that it?

He’s a joke and a fraud!

“I want to destroy Medicare and get the credit that I tried to stop the destruction of Medicare at the same time.”

*Medicaid

Oh they’re going to gut Medicare too. The 1st cuts don’t begin until 2026 and currently are guesstimated to start ~4% automatically - across the board. Unless they need more to cover the ridiculous shortfall in the budget. Yeah, over 900 pages and an hour to read it in let a lot of sht sail on by

Performance theatre at its worst.

Josh is shameless. See below ⬇️

Sure.

Hey, Joshie. Pull the other one.

While some already entered the "finding out" phase, others are behind on even that.

Wow! Where did he find his balls? Too bad he didn't find them when the bill was up for a vote. If he had of butt kisser Vance could not have broken the tie 😡

Say he’ s a Flippin’ coward and slimy weasel.

Not voting for it the first time might have saved time but what do I know. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

He is trying to tack into the wind. He wants credit for being on both sides of issue of Medicaid cuts.

What a shitbag he is. Such a coward

Purely performative. He gave his oligarch and fossil fuel overlords what they wanted by passing the bill, and he knows damn well he’s not getting this “fix” through a GOP-controlled Congress. It’s nothing more than defensive political messaging.

To them it's all a game of politics while we live out the actual consequences of they cowardice

Their*** autocorrect fail

He probably forgets his position within a day or two.

They know what's coming for them. And it ain't champagne and roses

Still running away from something he helped cause, I see.

🖐️ I do: He knows it won't go anywhere,but, it will make people back home think he tried to save granny from being kicked out of the old folk home, their mother dying from lack of medical care, & the neighbors children from starving to death...while they pay for Bezos to buy a new yacht.

Like making sure a bill passes with the vice presidential vote. The passage of the unpopular by only just... we tried to stop it... NOT.

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"Just fix it in post!"

We live on the onion timelin

It’s just a fundraising scheme.

It seems they all voted for a bill they very much disagreed with. Why?

Jess, I’m sure you have a lot to say about this, and you’re not fooled by Hawley’s antics.

He's a pandering, cowardly POS

He’s a piggy little pick-me douchecanoe

Huh?

It was one of those political back room deals. I don’t believe he would do this if he didn’t feel like he was going to win for Medicaid.

He believes too much of what they tell him.

He is a scoundrel playing but sides to remain in a job that requires nothing from him

it won’t be on fox news so no republican will ever know it happened

He’s grand standing for a possible run for the presidency. 👎

🤣 Newsome will wipe the floor with heehaw hawley in the prez debates.

Eeeww. He seems so slimy.

Not what you say. It's what you do that matters.

I recall, once upon a time, being for something shortly before being against it was bad politics.🩴

He deliberately made this mistake so he could claim to fix it. Like Trump. Unbelievable

How pathetic the @nytimes.com would take this at face value. Correct headline "Senator Hawley Votes to Dismantle Medicaid, Then Pretends to Fix It."

We'll see? 🤨

How about the cuts to public media? You going to claw that back for us, Josh? I didn't think so.

Good point. Thousands are employed by public media across the state. But then jobs has never been his longsuit.

This is all political theater. He never had any intention of voting against the bill, and will make no substantive efforts to roll back anything.

He's playing both sides for his own political gain. Voting for the bill to kiss trump's butt, introducing a bill to revoke the Medicaid provisions to play to Missourians on Medicaid.

He didn’t take notes from Murkowski on how to get the exclusions first.

I never said he was the sharpest knife in the drawer 😁

"I'm gonna vote for the bill so I don't piss off Trump, and then I'm gonna roll back the cuts so I don't piss off the voters."

It's all theatre. Same with Murkowski & Collins. Lip service backed up by their opposite actions.

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Meanwhile he gets coverage in Missouri as the Senator who is fighting for Medicare.

Tell him his only chance of passing a bill is if he’s co-sponsored by Smoot- 🤣

This reads like an onion headline

His dad forgot to pull out?

Hm. It’s like threatening tariffs and then backing away. Threatening the stripping Medicaid and then saying jk. If you think this makes you look like a damned hero, you are so wrong. This behavior is idiotic and demeaning to the voters. You will not politically survive this.

Don't believe him.

It's simple. He hates his constituents, thinks they are stupid, and is only in D.C. to serve himself. He isn't afraid to face his voters because they are kept in the dark. All he needs to do is play nice for the T.V. and quietly do whatever his benefactors tell him to do.

Credit to @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social btw.

Bullshit posturing so he can claim he tried.

Create a problem so that you might be able to partially tackle a problem... Page from Steven Miller's playbook right there

He could have done his part and voted no.🙄

The GOP has always been about dominance & force; they've turned debate into a weapon. You can't debate a liar. Worse, people, like me, who value debate, let other people have their own opinion, true or not. GOP has exploited that & made it an effective weapon in order to kill debate.

Senator Haircut remaining on his bullshit

Oh, look. Hawlingass has strapped his running shoes on again. Full speed retreat.

They are all traitors and must be stopped immediately and punished for Attempting Genocide

Who knows WHAT to say? 🤬

Of course he does. He can play both sides of any issue about as well as anyone.

He knows this will never happen. It’s all performative bullshit so in his next campaign Hawley can say he tried.

Just talk to get current attention. He'll do what trump tells him to do.

As my favorite YouTube democrat (Texas Paul) says, “You can’t put the shit back in the horse.” Nice try, Josh.

Yay,Paul!

Paul!

They’re afraid. Existentially so.

He’s killing himself try try to walk down both sides of the street. We all know he’s a MAGA lackey through and through.

He is a vile, cowardly POS

They'll do this then run around claiming they're helping people. Political opportunism. All the other horrible things in the bill will remain, though. And they'll never admit wrongdoing. In fact, I bet Biden is to blame

nothing to say. he's a weasel. he's always been a weasel, always will be.

What a complete fool!! He thinks we don’t know what he did? Creates a “problem “ by voting for his cult leader and then is going to “solve” said problem with special bill. 🙄🙄😡

Hawley lost all credibility on January 6th

Me either. And we're stuck with him for 5 more years....

He knows it won't pass. He had to vote for the "Big 🤢 Bill" to appease Trump, and he's just doing this to cover his ass with constituents. We're not stupid, Josh.

He got re-elected

Damage control? November 2026 is coming.

Folks,you'll have to forgive Mr Hawley. You see, he's a fucking moron.

...and coward.

He broke it beyond repair… literally, it’s like he was driving, the car for a drive-by shooting, and after giving everybody life-threatening injuries, ‘now he says it’s all good’ because maybe the doctors can fix them…

My understand is that his proposal isn't a roll back but instead an attempt to hinder further cuts. Not that it means anything. Republicans have made it clear that doesn't mean any damn thing.