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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums51 GOP Senators Just Voted To Cut $1.5 Trillion from Medicare and Medicaid
to Give Super-Rich and Corporations a Tax Cut
Along strict party lines, the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday night voted to pass a sweeping budget measureone criticized as both "despicable" and "horrific" for providing massive giveaways to corporations and the super-rich while eviscerating funding for social programs, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
The measure passed by 51-49 vote, with only one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, joining every Democrat and the chamber's two Independents who voted against it. Its approval now paves that way for massive tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations envisioned by President Donald Trump and the GOP in both the House and the Senate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/19/51-gop-senators-just-voted-cut-15-trillion-medicare-and-medicaid-give-super-rich-and
I can't imagine anyone over 65, even one who's always voted Republican, not being up in arms about this.
Lots of people that age are dyed-in-the-wool Republicans. Why are they cutting their own throats???!!??
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Too bad about the American people.
atreides1
(16,094 posts)...is reserved for the American people who didn't vote for Republicans! Those that put the Republicans in charge, they can go piss up a rope!
They'll be getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop, too!
Initech
(100,108 posts)I hope these billionaire criminals sleep easier at night knowing they've screwed over the rest of the country.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)Still sucks though. As I understand it- Now they wait and see what piece of shit the GOP house puts together. The senate will then need 50 + Pence votes for it to pass through reconciliation. Still plenty of time for the house to load the budget with enough poisonous crap to go the way of the ACA repeal fiasco.
maveric
(16,446 posts)What else could it be?
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)This is what they always do.
This is why they must never have power.
eShirl
(18,505 posts)Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)From the poor and the sick to rich GOP campaign contributors.
People surprised by this (read: Trump voters) are fucking morons indeed.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Never fails
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)world wide wally
(21,757 posts)Get out the fucking vote in every election from now on!
It's our ONLY hope.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)they know they've locked up (or cancelled) the next election already.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Benghazi..........er............... ............LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! Make America Great Again!
They're low information idiots, that's why.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)They are surely coming.