Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.
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And yet a big chunk of the country are still republicans, and another big chunk think doing anything to stop this is simply too gauche (pun intended) to consider. We can’t fight back or be at all disruptive because then they’ll do the bad things they’re planning to do anyway!