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MedicaidMedicaid covers 70 million Americans. More than half of all nursing care and 40% of all births in the U.S.
are paid by Medicaid. The program is hugely popular. According to a Hart Research poll, even 71% of Trump voters oppose cuts to Medicaid.
The Republican-passed budget resolutions are nonspecific outlines for a future budget reconciliation bill. However, nearly half the total budgeted spending cuts (about $880 billion over 10 years) would come through the House committee that oversees Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that it would be impossible for Republicans to meet their budget goals without deeply cutting Medicaid.
Everyone favors eliminating “fraud, waste and abuse,” but it is easier said than done. There isn’t nearly as much of it as Republicans assume. It requires a scalpel, not a chainsaw.
If Republican budget cuts are implemented, millions of real people in the U.S. will lose their health coverage.
According to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Medicaid covers about 1.9 million people in Virginia.Rep.
Jen Kiggans voted in favor of the Republican House Budget Resolution. According to the Center for American Progress, Medicare covers 104,225 people in the 2nd District. Thousands of her constituents could lose their health coverage.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump may unilaterally slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid regardless of Congress.David L Campbell, Virginia BeachResponseRe “Town Halls” (Your Views, April 5): The writer chastises protestors for being “loud, disrespectful and confrontational” against former Congressman Scott Taylor in 2017.The writer defended U.
S. Rep. Jen Kiggans’ failure to show up to meet her constituents because they would be screaming and committing acts of violence.
What does he think about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists who ransacked our Capitol and injured law enforcement? President Donald Trump pardoned all who were convicted of crimes, even violent crimes.Let’s see how well we do with four years of tariffs.
Keep in mind who pays these tariffs — it’s us, not the Chinese. Once again, this letter points to former President Joe Biden not being competent. Let’s watch the total incompetence of Trump.
Vivian M. Reynolds, Newport NewsSigns of lifeNASA spends billions of dollars annually scanning our solar system and beyond for the existence of intelligent life. The space agency should redirect its efforts toward a much more pressing need: looking for signs of intelligent life in the White House.
Consider the chaotic regime of President Donald Trump and his potentially devastating actions: cuts in funding for medical research; weakening regulations designed to protect our air and water; questionable Cabinet appointees; promoting economy-shattering tariffs; sending people to foreign prisons without due process; attempting to gut government agencies including Social Security; and threatening those who dissent.Coupled with congressional Republicans’ unwillingness to stand up to Trump and do their jobs, it presents us with serious threats to our democracy. Identifying those who possess wisdom, rational thinking and common sense in the White House would provide a much more immediate benefit than exploring deep space.
Then NASA can move on to its next mission: the search for intelligent life in Congress.Ken Powders, ChesapeakeLow priceThe American electorate have been bamboozled by a convicted felon with multiple bankruptcies. Now it has put him in charge of the largest bank in the world with no checks and balances.
When the agenda is to tank the economy into a recession, you need to think who is the biggest beneficiary of the actions.The likes of Elon Musk and those that have supported President Donald Trump will be the biggest beneficiaries of buying up America at low prices. The president knows this is his chance to make billions for him and his cohorts.
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