Johnson said he won't make any changes to his budget plan to address concerns about possible Medicaid cuts. "There’s nothing specific about Medicaid in the resolution. The legislation comes later, so this is the important first start," he said.
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Smart Democrats would be proactive in placing blame for the inevitable government shutdown on Republicans, NOW. Dems must loudly insist that they will not support drastic cuts to any programs in order to extend $trillions of tax cuts for the richest Americans. Will new DNC leadership get this right?
feb 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck that. VOTE NO ON EVERYTHING ! @housedemocrats.bsky.social
feb 24, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Note the word "specific."
feb 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Swing district Republicans have learned nothing.
feb 24, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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feb 25, 2025, 4:30 pm • 2 1 • view
Bullcrap sandwich!
feb 24, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
He is a demon.
feb 24, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And the NO BALLS SUCK AZZ AWARD GOES TO THE LITTLE SCARY SPEAKER MIKEY JOHNSON, THE SPINLESS 🤡🤡 CLOWN
feb 24, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Queenie won't be Speaker of the house for long!
feb 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Off. The. Table.
feb 25, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
They do realize that a very large & growing portion of those on Medicaid are the elderly who can no longer work, & whose savings & home equity have been decimated by medical & care costs, regardless how well they saved & planned. Squeezed by inflation (2.5% COLAs do nothing), recessions. /1
feb 24, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Many people rely on their final home sale to fund their long-term care. But they pay cap gains on the diff btwn what sales & purchase price, less a $250K/500K exclusion. That exclusion amount was set in 1997 and was not indexed to inflation. Given steep rise in home prices, they are taking /1
feb 24, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
a huge tax hit. Either eliminate the tax, or adjust the exclusion. Based on CPI-double-$500//$1M. And for God’s sake, get rid of the single penalty which never made sense & is unfair to the single, widowed, divorced. A house is a house regardless the # living there.
feb 24, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
They need to pay the consequences at the polls!
feb 25, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
These people cannot be trusted. Not on anything.
feb 24, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
In any case if there is a shutdown, 1/ GOP responsible 2/ it would be a huge 🖕 to Trump, Musk & his fascist Republicans Americans are already suffering just … because😑 So the Shutdown will hurt but ..Wouaouw what a big 🖕with tears in our eyes
feb 24, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
They should be concerned with the 4 Trillion in handouts to the rich and corporations. At the cost of decimating the government and the citizens that fund it. Middle class & working poor will start paying for the 2017 tax cuts for the Elites. 10 years of stepped tax increases for us to pay.
feb 24, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Mike Johnson’s state, Louisiana, has the highest reliance on federal assistance including Medicaid, as a percentage of their total revenue. • Louisiana: 50.5% • Alaska: 50.2% • Arizona: 49.7% • Montana: 48.8% • New Mexico: 48.7% What’s his constituency’s response to these cuts?
feb 24, 2025, 10:26 pm • 5 1 • view
I was getting ready to make a similar post, but adding that Johnson is embracing the McConnell model, his state is always a welfare state, with low-ranking education and healthcare...but the corporate tax rate is low, and they pay to elect him.
feb 24, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 1 • view
Johnson is a good Christian. It's a good thing there is a god. 😜
feb 24, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Very sneaky Johnson. Nobody would ever guess that you're Trump's toadstool.
feb 24, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Another boot licker - does no one realize Johnson is just a Trump yes man - no Trumplican cares about the Americans that will be hurt by reducing Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security
feb 25, 2025, 1:02 pm • 4 1 • view
He's worse than a trump yes man. Johnson is on an anti-Christ, anti-Jesus, fake-Christian theocratic crusade and he will say and do anything to achieve his malevolent goals.
feb 25, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 1 • view
How about a more accurate headline: Trump's little Johnson is getting ready to fuck us.
feb 24, 2025, 7:53 pm • 13 0 • view
You win! That is gold!
feb 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 2 0 • view
the only reason he gets away with saying stuff like this is because the media credulously reports it that way, and doesn’t clearly point out that he’s full of shit since the cuts he’s proposing literally can’t come from anywhere else in the budget
feb 25, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Things Moses would say.
feb 24, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Liar!
feb 24, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep phoning and make your voices heard . . . Capitol Switch board 202.224.3121
feb 24, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico, I don't know who's in charge over there, but you are a complete waste of time and have been for years and it's getting worse. Piss off and GFY.
feb 25, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump DOES NOT care about Americans in general. Pay attention to what he DOES not what he says. Trump seems to have a CATCH AND RELEASE policy for those at the top who commit FRAUD MEDICARE 1.8 BILLION PBS January 22, 2021 Trump PARDONS include Health care EXECUTIVES behind MASSIVE FRAUDS
feb 24, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
He's a piece of shit who no longer tells the truth . Trump lies and he swears to it.
feb 25, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Swine.
feb 24, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Apparently he gets kudos for wearing his religion (rather than actual Christianity) on his sleeve. His nefarious actions and lying indicate his real character.
feb 24, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
They are going to cut medicaid, medicare, and social security. Project 2025 is 1/3 enacted and these cuts are found in the other 2/3 of the the plan.
feb 25, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 1 • view
Send a message to your member of Congress and tell them to protect our communities and save Medicaid now. 💙🇺🇲💪🏻🫱🏻🫲🏽💙 action.aclu.org/send-message...
feb 25, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 2 • view
Johnson gave an interview today claiming he and the GOP do not know how much Congress funds different agencies. Johnson is a liar and a thief.
feb 24, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Mike Johnson doesn't think Medicare is important? Who they heck does he think our money belongs to? Him? Musk?
feb 24, 2025, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view
WWWWAAAAAAIIIIIIIITTTTTT for it>
feb 24, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
He knows these cuts are gonna hurt some of the most vulnerable of the population and he doesn’t appear to care. Not sure where those qualities coincide with the Bible?
feb 24, 2025, 7:50 pm • 18 0 • view
If he's the devil, it makes perfect sense.
feb 25, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Burn oil for Trump to turn earth into hell
feb 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
USA health care *costs twice than in Europe *Life expectancy is 2 to 6 year less in USA Guess why?? #teslatakedown #medicaid #resist #usprotests www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
feb 24, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
"Republicans are struggling to find enough revenue offset the costs of the bill, especially as a group of swing-district House Republicans balk at deep planned Medicaid cuts." www.politico.com/live-updates...
feb 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
No dem should vote for this budget shut the country down and keep it shut down until we can bring back under control.
feb 24, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
He must think we're all morons.
feb 24, 2025, 7:49 pm • 10 0 • view
America celebrates holocaust denial every Thanksgiving
feb 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
He thinks we're weak and he thinks his theocracy will protect him. We hope he's wrong
feb 25, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
52% of the country
feb 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
when he thinks of us, which isn't often, it's exactly what he thinks.
feb 24, 2025, 7:52 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s an fing weasel, Johnson has no backbone and will never stand up for the most vulnerable among us. It’s appalling and shameful!
feb 24, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, there is fat in the Medicaid budget, but the fat is private corporations fleecing government for medical services. It's HUGE & costing taxpayers billions of dollars. But Trump/GOP will not touch their greedy corporate friends, they will cut benefits to the most vulnerable in America. SHAMEFUL!
feb 24, 2025, 7:57 pm • 7 4 • view
I totally agree!
feb 24, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
their greed has no end....
feb 25, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
feb 24, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Maggot Liars!!! All the MAGA Maggots must be purged !!!
feb 26, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
good luck with that
feb 24, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump’s Plan to Seize Total Power Is Underway—And No One Is Stopping Him. How Project 2025 Will Kill American Democracy While the Media and Congress Stay Silent. This Article I Wrote Exposes the Threat and Demands Action—Before It’s Too Late. jasonegenberg.substack.com/p/americas-l...
feb 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 1 • view
Alarming!
feb 24, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Saying there is nothing specific says there might be something in there to allow trump to do whatever he wants without further congressional action. Smells like a dirty diaper.
feb 25, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 1 • view
A ten year poison pill is buried in Johnson’s budget proposal. @govmlg.bsky.social explains it here. youtu.be/h1f7Wm2VkSg?...
feb 25, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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feb 24, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
As Trump and his administration continue to destroy this country and hurt the majority of it's people, the people will eventually rise up against them. It's inevitable.
feb 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
He lies like a rug
feb 25, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view