the U.S. Department of Agriculture told grocery stores they are prohibited from offering discounts to SNAP recipients during the shutdown, even while cutting delayed payments in half. Did they come up with this idea at rump's Gatsby party?
This regime has to go.
Last night in neighborhoods around the country...
...because the ACA subsidies ended last night.
Deporting millions needs countries willing to take in migrants. Trump’s transition team has reached out to the govts of Mexico & El Salvador through back channels about taking in some of the millions of undocumented migrants set to be expelled under his mass deportation plan.
His team & informal advisers have had more detailed discussions, in some cases via businesspeople as intermediaries, about taking back migrants.
#Immigration #USPol #GOPCruelty #MassDeportation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-16/trump-team-backchannels-with-mexico-el-salvador-on-deportations?srnd=homepage-americas&embedded-checkout=true
"Not even most ICE agents want to barge into churches or schools & carry out arrests. But the Trump admin wants people to be afraid; so they want nowhere to seem safe, no matter how draconian & brutal the operation may seem & how much backlash it may generate."
A Reichlin-Melnick
As soon as Day 1, Trump plans to issue a memo rescinding a 2011 policy that has restricted ICE from arresting migrants in schools, houses of worship & hospitals.
#USPol #Immigration #GOPCruelty https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trump-scrap-restriction-ice-arrests-churches-schools-rcna183688
Never underestimate the cruelty & racism of Republican leaders. Image wanting to intentionally separate family members bc they're immigrants (who are mostly black & brown).
"Texas and 15 other GOP states filed a complaint in ED of Texas seeking to halt the #PIP (Keeping Families Together Parole in Place Program)."
#Immigrants #ImmigrationReform #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat #PIP #USPol #GOPCruelty
Republicans are so proud of their cruel #Project2025, they brag about it. Are they questioning their plan bc #TFG is now denying knowledge of it?
"The Trump SuperPAC has run ads about Project 2025, & a ton of Trumpworld people are authors of it. They're scared now because they're desperate for no one to know what they're actually up to."
-C Hayes
"At the very least it indicates a recognition of the conservative manifesto’s political liabilities."
-B Metzger
Even Bloomberg agrees, #TFG's immigration 'crackdown' solution would be disastrous. But Bloomberg also unfairly accuses Pres Biden of causing the current debacle. It's Republicans, that for decades, who have thwarted all attempts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that solves many of the problems:
"The former president’s policies would maximize chaos & cruelty while doing little to address the underlying problem."
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
May 21, 2019 – The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that allowed health workers to opt out of providing medical care if the procedure violates their conscience. Examples cites include abortion, gender confirmation surgery, and assisted suicide.
#NeverAgainTrump #TrumpMustLose2024 #VoteBlue #GOPIncompetence #GOPCruelty
#SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
May 21, 2017 – To balance the budget after billions in new defense spending, Donald Trump proposed slashing $1.7 trillion over the next ten years from programs supporting low-income Americans. Among the programs were food stamps (losing $193 billion) and Medicaid (losing $800 billion).
In 2018, 42M Americans depended on food stamps and 68M Americans had their healthcare covered through Medicaid.
‘Not on my watch’ -Biden blasts TFG over suggested cuts to SS, MDCR.
">150M ppl are covered by Medicare or Medicaid,, or ~45% of the US pop. MDCR covers primarily older Americans, while Medicaid covers primarily Americans with lower incomes.
The SS Admin says an average of almost 68M ppl get benefits monthly, about 20% of the US pop.
The vast majority of those SS recipients are age 62+."
#TFG #GOPCruelty #SocialSecurity #Medicare
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/biden-blasts-trump-over-social-security-medicare-cut-ideas.html
Republican lawmakers appear to have been transported from the "Gilded Age". They're taking away #WorkerRights...
Several pieces of legislation to erode worker’s protections in KY have begun moving thru the leg. process this year, incl. a bill to allow teenagers to work longer & later hours.
Another measure in that surge of leg. cleared a CMTE vote -would strip KY’s meal & rest break protections & 7th-day overtime.
#GOPFascism #GOPCruelty #GOPDeathCult #ChildLabor
https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-02-28/another-bill-to-strip-kentucky-worker-protections-advances-in-legislature
Republicans are cruel. Americans need to understand the GOP's diabolical plan for their lives: little to no social safety net:
In places like ID, MO & SD, GOP officials are laying the groundwork to substantially overhaul their health safety-net programs. Their plans, if approved by a #TFG WH, could cut hundreds of thousands of ppl from a program that conservatives have long complained is bloated -but the move could also save states & the fed govt billions$.
#GOPCruelty
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-medicaid-states-00141397
"Forced Birth" often carries health issues for the mother & baby, & in red🩸states like TN -little state help *so years of financial, emotional, & physical pain.
In 2019, ~1/2 of Tennesseans lived in an area that has 3Xs as many children as licensed child care slots. In Mayron’s city, >3K children in 2023 qualified for govt assist. for child care, but 941 were unable to access it *b/w 2011-20 -bills for childcare assist. failed in the TN leg.
https://projects.propublica.org/the-year-after-a-denied-abortion/
Suddenly it all makes sense... Republicans want more babies born so they can starve them, and if they survive that, grow up without a decent education or even a dictionary, but with at least half a dozen guns and a bible they can't read. Practically a recipe for MAGA!
#GOPcruelty
Hitleresque:
This will be met immediately with a lawsuit, & could lead to TX taxpayers paying the costs for violating clear SC precedent. -A Reichlin-Melnick
Gov Abbott on Mon signed a law allowing state law enforcement to arrest people suspected of crossing the US-MX border illegally, giving local officers power. SB4 will take effect in Mar -create a new state crime for illegal entry or re-entry into TX, with penalties: 180 days in jail to 20 yrs in prison. #GOPCruelty
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-arrest-migrants-crossing-border-illegally-under-new-state-law-2023-12-18/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
Thanks to #GOPCruelty, 30.8 million adults and 13.4 million children aren’t always sure they will have food on the table.
Millions of families have gone hungry since Republicans and Joe Manchin ended child tax credit https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/4/2202988/-Millions-of-families-have-gone-hungry-since-Republicans-and-Joe-Manchin-ended-child-tax-credit
Mike Johnson has referred to SNAP, formerly called "food stamps," as "our nation's most broken and bloated welfare program." Thank God the poor can eat manna.
#MikeJohnsonIsFuckedInTheHead #GOPCruelty #VoteBlueIfYouWantFood
'100 percent wrong': Johnson fuels House fight over 'country’s largest anti-Hunger program' https://www.alternet.org/johnson-house-fight-anti-hunger/
T**** officials REPEATEDLY LIED (I know, shocker) when they denied there was a "deliberate Child Separation Policy as a deterrent" at the #border.
Two of the lead deniers (Neilson & AG Sessions) *behind the actual policy* will be forced to testify under oath about their denials: #CrimeAgainstHumanity #BorderCrisis #GOPCruelty https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-officials-ordered-to-account-for-family-separations-in-court-193948741917
Tennessee Republicans are leaders in the #GOPDeathCult. They have no problem with their constituents, esp. women, children, POC, & LGBTQ ppl suffering & dying bc of their oppressive laws & policies. Forcing a woman to deliver a baby w/o assistance is barbarism & wanton endangerment. #GOPCruelty https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/31/tennessee-jail-birth-pregnant/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter
