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The Trump administration wants to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Medicare budget, all while giving billionaires and giant corporations huge tax breaks with the GOP Tax Scam. This is immoral.
The budget released by the White House [in March 2019] calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that Trump has consistently promised to protect.
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The one thing, literally the one thing, Trump has ever said that made a single ounce of sense was that prescription drug prices are too high. Of course, he has no idea what to do about that and the Republicans surrounding him have zero interest in lowering prices. In fact, they are former execs from drug companies and healthcare lobbyists who have worked to maintain the power of the drug industry.
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For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Community Development Block Grants. Let's explain for a second what CDBG funds are:
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For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget calls for major reductions in spending on Medicaid.
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At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.
Judges have rebuffed the education secretary’s attempts to pause or change a range of Obama-era policies.