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Chapter 1: How are Republicans impacting Medicaid and the deficit?
The MAGA Republicans are pushing forward what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. What are they doing, though?
I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way possible. I mean, you got this MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying, go, Elon, go, go here. Watch whatever the hell this is.
Chapter 2: What are MAGA Republicans saying about Elon Musk and Twitter?
If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower, double down, and we're going to correct the pieces as we go along as well. Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people when he took over Twitter. He changed the name of it, and now today it's worth twice as much as it was before.
Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think, worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy, you know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. Play this clip.
Coming up with the offsets. So when you look at mandatory spending, and this is a point that I've been making recently, is some of this quote unquote mandatory spending not mandatory at all?
Chapter 3: Why do MAGA Republicans support Medicaid cuts?
No, look, I mean, Medicaid is a big mandatory spending program. But what we need in this country is for the American people to get back to work. Work capable adults need to get off of the taxpayer roles and they need to get into private health insurance in private employment. This is what Secretary Besson and President Trump are talking about when they say reprivatize the economy.
This is good for people who are currently on Medicaid in Kentucky and around the country. It's good for you. We're taking away your Medicaid.
You want this? It's good for people in Kentucky. But while the MAGA Republican Congress members do things like this, Republican Congress member Joe Wilson has announced a proposal for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's face on it. Quote, I'm drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump, the most valuable bill for the most valuable president. This is cartoonishly clownish. I got to get the take of Congress member Jake Auchincloss, who's been very outspoken about how disastrous Doge has been and these cuts are in this horrific budget. Congress member, what do you make of this all?
30% of Kentuckians are on Medicaid and I'm sure they're gonna be thrilled with Andy Barr's viewpoint that what they really need is to be kicked off the rolls. Those new moms who are just so darn lazy, they don't wanna go back to work during that 12 weeks of maternity leave or those families raising children with intellectual or developmental disabilities who rely on Medicaid as a lifeline.
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Chapter 4: What is Congressman Jake Auchincloss's reaction to GOP actions?
Those seniors who are at home getting care that only Medicaid provides. $60 out of every $100 spent in this country on at-home care comes from Medicaid. They're not lazy. They're not shirking responsibilities. They're individuals who need access to primary care and preventative care and at-home care, and Medicaid provides it.
These Republicans are touching a hot stove in slow motion, and they are going to get burned.
The Congress member, I mean, you're telling me that people in red states are not rooting for things like this, like Trump Gaza. They're not focused on whatever this image is of I don't even know what I'm looking at that Donald Trump is posing. You're telling me that they're not focused on Elon Musk at a beach throwing money in the air and seeing Donald Trump post that.
You're telling me that the American people are getting pissed? that their Medicaid is getting taken away, that essential services are being gutted, that they're waking up feeling less safe.
Ben, I'm glad you raised the chaos, the corruption of Doge and the attempts by the president to play fetch with our attention span, because Doge is a magic trick. It's not saving money, as you know. It's misdirection.
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Chapter 5: How is Donald Trump's influence affecting Republicans?
It's trying to direct Americans' attention spans towards what one hand is doing so that they're not gonna be paying attention to what congressional Republicans are doing, which is taking an ax to Medicaid. Donald Trump doesn't have to face the voters again. So I understand what he's doing.
He's trying to hook up all these tech billionaires who invested in his campaign and who probably bought all of his meme coins that he issued. He owes them tax cuts. But for the life of me, I can't understand why congressional Republicans are allowing Donald Trump to frog march them off the gangplank. Because when they go home to their town halls,
And they have to explain to new mothers and to kids and to seniors that they cut off their lifeline to health care in exchange for Elon Musk firing some federal aviation administration staff or FDA staff. They're going to get thrown out of town.
know uh donald trump is he was saying today he was blaming uh the egg prices on the administration but he was acting like he wasn't in charge he was just saying you know these egg prices are going up i i got to go speak to the head of the department of agriculture and just see what's going on here i'm i'm pissed about this but wasn't he the one who promised that on day one
he was going to bring down prices housing was going to be more affordable there was going to be all of these there's so many jobs you weren't going to know what to do with all of the jobs and you know i think what we're seeing in the kind of consumer sentiment and as donald trump's approval is plummeting that despite donald trump's efforts to try to distract and corporate media kind of buying into the distraction framework
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Chapter 6: What are public sentiments towards price hikes and Trump's promises?
I think it's hitting people hard and they're going, wait a minute. I can't even find eggs. My grocery price up. What are you seeing across the country in town halls in your district? Is this a Democrats, Republicans, independent? What are you seeing?
I want everyone who's listening right now to go and take a picture of their most recent home insurance bill and their most recent car insurance bill. Save that in your photo library. And then a year from now, I want you to look at the bill that you get. I will sit here and virtually guarantee you that those bills will go up by double digit percentages. Why?
Well, homes and cars are basically bundles of steel, aluminum, semiconductors, and lumber. And President Trump wants to add taxes to all of those things indiscriminately. And then he's going to harass or deport the workforce, particularly for housing, that constructs them. And our home and our car insurance, what they are is they're messages from the future.
They are messages saying, here's what it will cost to rebuild or repair your home or your car in the future. And that's why Americans' insurance bills are going to go up now for the actions that Donald Trump has taken that will affect the economy later. We're going to see not just inflation and insurance costs, for home and auto, but also insurance costs for healthcare.
Because when he kicks millions of Americans off the rolls of Medicaid, those Americans don't stop getting sick. They just go to emergency rooms. And those hospitals have to cross subsidize the cost of those ER visits by raising the rates they charge commercial insurers. So individuals who are getting their health insurance through their employers will be paying more...
higher prices on health insurance along with car and home insurance. This economy, under Donald Trump's current direction, will see inflation.
Congressman, I got to push back on you because one of the things that Trump is saying in addition to Trump Gaza with giant golden statues of him and him and Benjamin Netanyahu with their shirts off hanging on the beach and whatever the heck, again, those photos were that he's been posting. He's got... He's got gold cards. He's going to change the immigration system.
He's going to replace what we have. And he says he's going to sell immigration. It's 5 million a pop. People have a black card because a lot of Americans can relate to having an American Express black card. He's like, I'm going to give you a gold card. So he said this word for word. Russian oligarchs, for example, you Chinese oligarchs, you buy in for
Five mil, you get your visa, you become an American citizen, and bang, $50 trillion. 50 trillion is what he's saying.
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