📢 45's budget proposal has massive cuts to Education, HHS, SSI, EPA and 15 other departments. Only six departments are not receiving cuts with DOD having the largest increase. This thread exposes this heartless budget designed to pay back the #GOPTaxScam at our expense.
First up an overview chart, note where all the ➕, they are easy to find there are only 6 on 3 charts.
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Medicaid, SNAP and TANF cuts. Trump and the GOP are willing to hurt the most vulnerable in the name of increasing National Dept that they caused with the #GOPTaxScam . HHS looks to take one of the largest hits and you can see the cuts on pages 116 - 124 whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
Trump promised no SSI cuts....oh never mind here are the cuts to SSI and it's programs.
Education is facing massive cuts.
There is one area related to education that increased and is hidden on page 130, not in the Education section of the budget. I call it the , "Betsy DeVos federal education fund for filling her bank account with my tax dollars" scholarship fund.
#MAGA and vets that support 45 here are the cuts to the VA. So much winning and support for vets.
#MAGA it appears 45 shares the budget love with his Farmers by slashing the Agriculture budget. Food Safety inspections and Crop Insurance take a tremendous hit. 45 shure does love the farmers.
This section of the budget, Restrain spending to protect and respect American taxpayers, shows just how much 45 respects us by cutting the programs that restrain spending and protect us.
It's obvious, we the American people are not the focus of this budget and never have been. The focus of this budget is on stripping education, safety net programs and health care programs under the guise of an out of control national debt.
A national debt created by the GOP and Trump with trillions in tax cuts to corporations and the oligarchs of this country. This admin has only had one goal from the beginning, eliminate any and all social programs not benefiting the wealthy.
The GOP claims to care about us and the national debt, it is painfully obvious they only care about their bank accounts and their oligarch employers bank accounts. Call and email your reps to vote no on this budget, Trump and the GOP band of thieves have to be stopped.
The education budget or lack of, DeVos gets $$$ for her charter schools so her oligarch friends and her can fatten their bank accounts. While cutting 39 programs that aid or help millions of children and adults. Snap shot, budget fact sheet.
Literacy takes another hit, Libraries. Of note the budget states that programs getting axed "may take advantage of" and names servera programs or funds. "May" does not mean it will be approved and if on the Fed level I am sure it won't be.
Who needs strong leaders and good role models in schools?
Who needs well trained and supported educators?
DeVos is increasing the administrators budget for salaries by $30 mil while cutting full time employees budget by $44 thousand.
DeVos also increased funds for her charter schools...."$500 million for the Charter School Program, an increase of $160 million over the fiscal
year 2018 annualized CR level," Pg 4 (PDF Pg 8)
Not all of the budget is doom and gloom, STEM and CTE are increased.
We also have a new program to address opioid abuse.
You can read more on the ED budget here...www2.ed.gov/about/overview…
We must persuade our reps to vote no on Trump and Devos's budgets. They want to gut all social, education and benefit programs that serve %90 of this country. If it does not help/benefit the top 1-10% of the wealthy in the country 45, Devos and the GOP don't care.
Children are our future and we must make sure they have a future with quality education, support programs and health care.
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The GOP gives us a pittance and then...
“For those earning $1 million annually, a tax break buried in the recent coronavirus relief legislation is so generous that its total cost is more than total new funding for all hospitals"
“Someone wrongly seized on this health emergency to reward ultrarich beneficiaries, likely including the Trump family, with a tax loophole not available to middle class families. This net operating loss loophole is a loser that should be repealed"
If you have not watched the movie The Laundromat on Netflix, you need to. It's about the Panama Papers, the biggest data leak, 11.5 million documents, from the 4th largest offshore law firm in 2016.
Thread.
2018 film that inspired The Laundromat
Original story breaking the leak.
"Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world" panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56feb…
The GOP does not want to follow their own rules written and submitted by Goodlatte to Boehner PG H576 - H578 26JAN15. They only want to play by the rules when it suites their agenda including subpoenas. Facts and truth do not apply to the GOP and MAGA.
Reference:
PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE RULES
RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
FOR THE 114TH CONGRESS govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CR…
📢45 reduced fines for nursing homes that commit abuse, fraud or have substandard facilities. This will encourage more to put profit over patients and affect the care of our infirm and elderly. This thread is to raise awareness of this system and how we can prevent it.
H/T to Patricia Revists Patrick Henry 💙@2021_free for posting this article that inspired this thread
"the average fine for nursing homes decreased to $28,405 under Trump...down from $41,260 in 2016, former President Obama's last year in office."
Source: thehill.com/policy/healthc…
The NPR article quoted by The Hill additionally states,
"Encouraged by the nursing home industry, the Trump administration switched from fining nursing homes for each day they were out of compliance as the Obama administration typically did...
As we all know Fox News is 45's propaganda outlet, but did you know they have been influencing voters since 2000? They have had 19 years to hone their craft and addict people to their style of "news" and yes I said addict. I will explain this addiction in this thread.
A little history review on voting and FOX viewers:
"Americans who say they voted for Trump in the general election relied heavily on Fox News as their main source of election news leading up to the 2016 election,"
We know the effect FOX had in 2016, but did you know they affected 2000 - 2008 elections?
"Fox News played an increasingly important role in presidential elections between 2000 and 2008. Their analysis suggests that, had the network not existed (and no similarly conservative"
Installment 4 of greed in HC, Big Pharma. Hospitals and Insurance are quiet about it, but Pharma is public and proud of their greed. In this thread, why we pay more than any other country for meds and what we need to do to fix it. #HealthCareForAll Healthcarerx.org
Buckle in kids this is going to be a bumpy ride. Hospitals and insurance were easy, there are a multitude of moving parts in the Pharma greed machine making billions or trillions a year. I hope to shed some light on this exceptional greed generating complex we have in the U.S.
Watch this segment from Patriot Act by Hasan Minhaj on drug pricing and the blame game on prices. The Goverment blames Pharma, Pharma blames insurance, Insurance blames PBM, (pharmacy benefits manager) and then they all blame each other.