“Republicans tell us we need tax cuts for billionaires, but when it comes to programs for regular people, it’s cut, cut, cut.” House Republicans narrowly passed their plan for raising the federal debt limit & forcing sweeping cuts to the social safety.
At the House Rules Committee, lawmakers discussed a TV ad that aired across Wisconsin in support of the welfare-to-work ballot question, which apparently featured a young man playing video games and demanding his mother to bring him snacks.
Many eligible people could lose their coverage simply for failing to navigate the reporting process, which could require internet and computer access. That’s what happened in Arkansas before a federal court blocked work requirements that temporarily werein 2019, when vulnerable people lost their health coverage in the confusion brought by new reporting requirements.
For McCarthy and House Republicans, the details of debt limit bill may have mattered less than simply getting it past the finish line, even if only to receive a veto threat from President Joe Biden. Democrats relished a chance to paint Republicans as the party that would punish struggling Americans in order to avoid taxing the rich.
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