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Another Swamp Alert... a major Trump-appointed Republican official stealing from our nation. This time, it's Seema Verma, who runs Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. She keeps trying to destroy these programs citing their costs while spending millions of taxpayer dollars to make herself look good.
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Disgraced former Interior secretary Ryan Zinke was a corrupt, unethical person who was finally forced from the role. Replacing him on an acting basis is David Bernhardt. He is an oil lobbyist who is working on behalf of corporations to destroy our country. We wrote extensively about him in January 2019. Please revisit our BE SMART post on him by clicking here.
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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.
Now her Education Department is proposing savage budget cuts to vital programs. Let's shine a spotlight on what she's trying to do in hopes it exposes her to more sustained criticism.
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Smart Dissent has posted more than 20 times on Republican efforts to eliminate healthcare coverage for as many people as possible, knowing killing people. Following the GOP legislative failures to kill people via repeal of the ACA, we've seen dozens of administration quiet ways the Trump admin has gutted the program, costing Americans everything.
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A gutted I.R.S. makes the rich richer. It's as simple as that.
Had the billions in budget reductions occurred all at once, with tens of thousands of auditors, collectors and customer service representatives streaming out of government buildings in a single day, the collapse of the IRS might have gotten more attention. Instead, it’s taken eight years to bring the agency that funds the government this low.