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Post by onelasttime on Mar 20, 2024 23:59:13 GMT
I’ve asked more than once what is the Republican’s agenda. Today they gave us a peak of what they are planning. I say this along with their plans outlined in Project 2025 could be destructive to more than a few Americans including a lot who vote for them. I lay you odds what they aren’t saying out loud is they are planning another big tax cut for the rich and large corporations. Oh wait trump has said he wants another tax cut. NEW: Republican Study Committee releases a sweeping budget plan RSC chair is HERN; 170+ members incl Speaker and his full leadership team. Highlights: • Raises Social Security retirement age for future retirees • Converts Medicare to "premium support" a la Paul Ryan plan • Rolls back ACA • Endorses Life At Conception Act On Social Security, RSC budget endorses "modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy." Calls for lowering benefits for the highest-earning beneficiaries. No changes for current/imminent retirees. x.com/sahilkapur/status/1770587254106272140?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwOr another way to look at it…. “MAGA House releases plan to prevent you from: 1) retiring at 65 2) staying on your parents' health insurance until 26 3) obtaining health insurance if you have pre-existing conditions 4) getting an abortion 5) using IVF |
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 21, 2024 1:39:52 GMT
From NBC News…. linkI have to say the Republicans sure don’t want folks to get quality affordable healthcare do they. Yet they seem to have good coverage that our tax dollars are paying for. “ House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security” A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November. By Sahil Kapur WASHINGTON — A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare. The proposals, which are unlikely to become law this year, reflect how many Republicans will seek to govern if they win the 2024 elections. And they play into a fight President Joe Biden is seeking to have with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as he runs for re-election. The budget was released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 House GOP lawmakers, including many allies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Apart from fiscal policy, the budget endorses a series of bills “designed to advance the cause of life,” including the Life at Conception Act, which would aggressively restrict abortion and potentially threaten in vitro fertilization, or IVF, by establishing legal protections for human beings at “the moment of fertilization.” It has recently caused consternation within the GOP following backlash to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that threatened IVF. The RSC, which is chaired by Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., counts among its members Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his top three deputies in leadership. Johnson chaired the RSC from 2019 to 2021; his office did not immediately respond when asked about the new budget. For Social Security, the budget endorses "modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy." It calls for lowering benefits for the highest-earning beneficiaries. And it emphasizes that those ideas are not designed to take effect immediately: "The RSC Budget does not cut or delay retirement benefits for any senior in or near retirement." The new budget also calls for converting Medicare to a "premium support model," echoing a proposal that Republican former Speaker Paul Ryan had rallied support for. Under the new RSC plan, traditional Medicare would compete with private plans and beneficiaries would be given subsidies to shop for the policies of their choice. The size of the subsidies could be pegged to the "average premium" or "second lowest price" in a particular market, the budget says. The plan became a flashpoint in the 2012 election, when Ryan was GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's running mate, and President Barack Obama charged that it would "end Medicare as we know it." Ryan defended it as a way to put Medicare on better financial footing, and most of his party stood by him. Medicare is projected to become insolvent in 2028, and Social Security will follow in 2033. After that, benefits will be forcibly cut unless more revenues are added. Biden has blasted Republican proposals for the retirement programs, promising that he will not cut benefits and instead proposing in his recent White House budget to cover the future shortfall by raising taxes on upper earners. The RSC budget also presents a conundrum for Trump, who has offered shifting rhetoric on Social Security and Medicare without proposing a clear vision for the future of the programs. Notably, the RSC budget presents three possible options to address the projected insolvency of the retirement programs: raise taxes, transfer money from the general fund or reduce spending to cover the shortfall. It rejects the first two options. "Raising taxes on people will further punish them and burden the broader economy–something that the spend and print regime has proven to be disastrous and regressive," the budget says, adding that the committee also opposes "a multi-trillion-dollar general fund transfer that worsens our fiscal situation." That leaves spending cuts. The RSC budget launches blistering criticism at "Obamacare," or the Affordable Care Act, and calls for rolling back its subsidies and regulations that were aimed at extending insurance coverage.” |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 21, 2024 1:44:24 GMT
Converts Medicare to "premium support" a la Paul Ryan plan ....
That is part of what is killing regular Medicare and senior citizens..
The changes to ACA are out of line .
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Post by Scrapper100 on Mar 21, 2024 5:09:57 GMT
Life expectancy has declined thanks to Covid. Has it gone up again?
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Post by Merge on Mar 21, 2024 13:22:35 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 21, 2024 13:41:46 GMT
Life expectancy has declined thanks to Covid. Has it gone up again? While definitely a factor, I don’t think it is just due to Covid though. I think I just heard something on tv last week that the U.S. has one of the lowest life expectancies of all similar developed nations. This article I found said that the U.S. has had decreasing life expectancy for the past two decades at least. During Covid, I believe I read that the U.S. also had more excess deaths than any other developed nation reported. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/#Life%20expectancy%20at%20birth,%20in%20years,%201980-2022 |
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Post by Merge on Mar 21, 2024 13:56:37 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 21, 2024 14:11:25 GMT
Ding! Ding! Ding! I think we have a winner! 🏅 |
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 21, 2024 18:09:31 GMT
Bits & pieces are trickling out… ”ICYMI the House #Republicans finally released a U.S. budget, countering the #BidenAdministration proposal. The GOP budget: - cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security - raises Medicare costs & cuts caps on pharma fees - cuts Medicaid, ACA/Obamacare & the Children’s... MORE” ”2/ ...Health Insurance Prog by $4.5 trillion over 10 years - creates $5.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations- eliminates all clean energy tax incentives - raises Social Security Retirement age to 69.” Look at this list. Everything except the bolded part is to make the average American’s life a bit harder. Not one thing to make things a bit easier. Well things got better for the rich and corporations. This shows who the Republicans really are. x.com/laurie_garrett/status/1770813452853916078?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw |
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 21, 2024 18:14:58 GMT
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Republican Study Committee Budget
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“My dad had an expression, “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” The Republican Study Committee budget shows what Republicans value. This extreme budget will cut Medicare, Social Security, and the Affordable Care Act. It endorses a national abortion ban. The Republican budget will raise housing costs and prescription drugs costs for families. And it will shower giveaways on the wealthy and biggest corporations. Let me be clear: I will stop them.
My budget represents a different future. One where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and biggest corporations no longer get all the breaks. A future where we restore the right to choose and protect other freedoms, not take them away. A future where the middle class finally has a fair shot, and we protect Social Security so the working people who built this country can retire with dignity. I see a future for all Americans and I will never stop fighting for that future.”
The bolded part says it all.
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 21, 2024 18:46:41 GMT
So this is the plan if trump is te-elected and the GOP has the majority in Congress. Ron Filipkowski…. “House Republican leadership has released their budget plans for 2025, which includes defunding local police, increasing the retirement age for Social Security, and outlawing abortion at the federal level. Story … From MTN… “ Republican Study Committee Pushes Extreme Plan”
“Alarm bells should be going off heading into the November election“The Republican Study Committee has recently released a report outlining its objectives if Republicans are able to keep power in the House of Representatives, take back the Senate, and take back the White House. The top-lines from this proposal represent one of the most extreme policy agendas the United States Congress has ever seen. The Committee is one of the largest caucuses in the Republican party, with about 170 members of Congress signing onto this agenda. The report, titled "Fiscal Sanity to Save America," represents a budget proposal that Republicans will try to pass next year. Within this budget proposal, Republicans seek a number of substantial cuts to government programs and propose several policies that an average American would not agree with. These include: increasing the retirement age to become eligible for retirement benefits like Social Security; passing the Life At Conception Act which would outlaw abortion and IVF for millions of Americans; cutting parts of the Affordable Care Act, thereby increasing healthcare costs for millions of Americans; and reforming Medicare to limit the number of individuals eligible.
x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1770880713467761027?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw“Here is the part of the House Republican Plan to defund the police in 2025.” x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1770880985539695082?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 21, 2024 20:05:14 GMT
And who are the Republicans paying for 2025 project.... Conservative donors are pouring money into a controversial effort to overhaul the federal government and implement a right-wing agenda from the start of a potential second Donald Trump presidency, according to a report.The Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025 last April to develop policy recommendations and identify thousands of political appointees who could carry out its agenda in the next Republican administration. And groups linked to conservative activist Leonard Leo and the Koch network have now contributed more than $55 million to the initiative, according to an Accountable.US review shared exclusively with NBC News.“The ‘MAGA blueprint’ isn’t a one-off project — it’s backed by the same far-right figures who have long dictated the conservative agenda,” said Tony Carrk, executive director of Accountable.US. “Leo, Koch and others should be held to account for propping up a policy platform that puts special interests over everyday Americans and poses an existential threat to our democracy.”More than 100 conservative organizations have joined with former high-level Trump administration appointees and an advisory board to develop a presidential transition operation that would remake every federal department and agency to prioritize conservative goals, and their work has been aided by significant contributions from influential donors. The project's proposals would rapidly increase oil and gas leases through the Interior Department and end the Energy Department's focus on climate change and green subsidies, and the Environmental Protection Agency would gut its environmental justice and public engagement functions and eliminate its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. "Since 2021, Leo’s network has funneled over $50.7 million to the groups advising the 2025 Presidential Transition Project as part of its 'Project 2025 advisory board,' according to tax documents reviewed as part of the analysis," NBC News reported. "That sum includes donations from The 85 Fund, a donor-advised nonprofit group that funnels money from wealthy financiers to other groups, and the Concord Fund, a public-facing organization." "In 2022, the donor-advised fund DonorsTrust, which received more than $181 million from Leo-backed groups from 2019 to 2022, contributed over $21.1 million to 40 organizations advising Project 2025," the network added. "It contributed nearly $20 million to 36 nonprofit organizations advising Project 2025 in 2021."The Heritage Foundation contributed $1,025,000 to nine of the advisory groups, a substantial increase over the $174,000 in grants it distributed the previous year, and Accountable.US review found that Charles Koch’s network directed more than $4.4 million in 2022 to organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board through its donor conduit Stand Together Trust. www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2667567567/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 21, 2024 21:49:00 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 21, 2024 22:07:21 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 21, 2024 22:12:33 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 21, 2024 23:35:14 GMT
Keep in mind the federal fiscal years end on September 30 every year. The new year starts October 1st!! So this budget is much closer then most people realize. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 21, 2024 23:37:24 GMT
I posted in the misc thread. ABC News reported that NY State and some others' Walgreens will be dispensing Mifepristone soon..
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 22, 2024 0:38:26 GMT
I think he left out one important piece - abortion. Post Dobbs, Republicans are trying to pass abortion bans. IVF is now threatened and at the national level, Republicans won't protect it. GOP plans 2024f you take a step back for just a second and look at the big picture, you really have to ask yourself what the GOP plan to win in 2024 is because:
• Republicans have practically no money
• the RNC no longer exists
• there's no party platform
• Biden's impeachment is dead
• their star witness is a foreign asset
• Biden has more money than any candidate ever
• Bidens poll numbers keep going up
• the economy has gone up and up
• Trump is underperforming the primary polls
• his assets are about to be seized
• he has a criminal trial in a month
• multiple state AGs could indict his 1/6 co-conspirators
• the GOP could lose their House majority before the election
• FOX can only harp on immigration
• they've run on immigration every year since 2016 and only won once
• even then, they lost the popular vote
• more swing states have Dem governors/state legislatures than in 2020
• fake elector plot wont work this time
• attacking the capitol won't work this time
What exactly could Trump and the GOP be planning to get into the White House because they're not planning on Trump getting more votes than Joe Biden. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 22, 2024 5:08:48 GMT
Related to second term... MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and his guests issued a chilling warning to wealthy Americans who support Donald Trump's return to the White House. Billionaire megadonors, who had abandoned the former president after the Jan. 6 insurrection, have returned to the fold now that he has seemingly locked down the Republican Party nomination, but panelists on "Morning Joe" said they're wrong to think they're immune from the threats Trump poses to democracy and the constitutional order. "The problem they have, I think, is that they're duped on, they think the crazy is going to stay in the crazy side of things and not going to affect the economy," said Brian Klaas, an associate professor in global politics at University College London. "Authoritarianism is bad for business, right?" Scarborough agreed, saying that political chaos and authoritarian rule would choke the economy. *** Trump wants to tilt the playing field to benefit himself and his loyalists, which writer Molly Jong-Fast said would warp the economy. "Trump doesn't believe in capitalism," she said, "he believes in crony capitalism, which is not the same thing. His friends he elevates. Let's just say, Trump was never a good businessman. He's not elevating the best people." "History is littered with rich people who thought authoritarians would be okay to them, right?" Jong-Fast added. "We've seen this again and again throughout history. I think when you talk about someone like [billionaire investor] Nelson Peltz, who has come out for, he did a whole media tour recently when he said he doesn't want to vote for [president Joe] Biden because he feels Biden isn't as sharp as Donald Trump, which is a wild statement. Look, a lot of these people think the crony capitalism will work for them. They'll get the tax cuts, and they can keep going. I think history has proven that this is not how any of this works." The former president has already warned he would blacklist wealthy donors who contributed to his GOP challengers, and Scarborough said he would carry that same dynamic into a second term. "Trump has said, basically, 'I'm going to pick winners and losers,'" Scarborough said. "'If you are a company that's insufficiently loyal to me, I'm going to attack you' ... This guy is a crony capitalist." New York Times columnist Mara Gay wondered whether those wealthy donors cared what sort of world they'd leave for their grandchildren if Trump strangles democracy and the rule of law, but she said they should worry about themselves, as well. "They're in denial, that's all I can say," Gay said, "if – what's the phrase? – they think the goose steps are going to stop at their door." www.rawstory.com/trump-crony-capitalist/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 22, 2024 23:22:10 GMT
Project 2025www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administrationPersonnel and staffing
Project 2025’s goals for staffing the next GOP presidency reflect Trump’s idea to gut civil service staff and replace them with potentially tens of thousands of MAGA loyalists. The New York Times describes this plot for a second Trump administration as an “expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government” that would reshape “the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.”
Christian nationalism
Project 2025 aims to put Christianity at the center of American government and society by turning a biblical worldview into federal law, often employing Christian nationalist talking points and narratives to support its right-wing policy proposals. In his foreword to the book, for instance, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts claims that “the Left is threatening the tax-exempt status of churches and charities that reject woke progressivism,” adding that “they will soon turn to Christian schools and clubs with the same totalitarian intent.” Project 2025 is partnered with the Center for Renewing America, the primary Christian nationalist political organization in the U.S., led by former Trump official and Heritage alumnus Russ Vought.
Reproductive rights
Project 2025 aims for the next conservative administration to attack reproductive rights from several angles, including by removing the term “abortion” from all federal laws and regulations, reversing abortion pill approval, punishing providers by withdrawing federal health funding, and restricting clinics that provide contraception and STD testing. Project 2025 has collaborated with extremist anti-abortion groups such as Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life of America, and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Department of Justice and federal law enforcement
In the eyes of pro-Trump Republicans and their right-wing media allies, the Department of Justice and the FBI have long been corrupted by left-wing ideology and the bureaucratic “deep state.” Now, Project 2025 seeks to radically reshape federal law enforcement for the benefit of a conservative strongman; its chapter by former Trump DOJ official Gene Hamilton states that “anything other than a top-to-bottom overhaul will only further erode the trust of significant portions of the American people and harm the very fabric that holds together our constitutional republic.” These views reflect the various conservative legal organizations that have partnered with Project 2025, such as former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s America First Legal (where Hamilton currently works as vice president and general counsel), Carrie Severino’s Judicial Crisis Network, and the American Center for Law and Justice.
LGBTQ rightsProject 2025 takes extreme positions against LGBTQ rights, seeking to eliminate federal protections for queer people and pursue research into conversion therapies in order to encourage gender and sexuality conformity. The policy book also lays out plans to criminalize being transgender and prohibit federal programs from supporting queer people through various policies. The project partnered with anti-LGBTQ groups the Family Policy Alliance, the Center for Family and Human Rights, and the Family Research Council.
Climate Change
Project 2025 would eliminate environmental protections and further delay climate action. In the foreword, Heritage President Kevin Roberts calls environmentalism a “pseudo-religion,” claiming “environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human” because it promotes “population control and economic regression” by “regarding human activity itself as fundamentally a threat to be sacrificed to the god of nature.” Project 2025 is supported by climate change-denying organizations The Heartland Institute and the Institute for Energy Research.
Immigration
Project 2025 proposes to severely roll back both legal and unauthorized immigration through a number of untested, novel approaches that extend far beyond the policies of Trump’s first term. The plan would potentially make hundreds of thousands of people vulnerable to deportation through the loss of temporary protected status, and could ensnare their families, those they live with, and other members of their communities. Extreme anti-immigration organization the Center for Immigration Studies has partnered with Project 2025 in supporting these radical immigration policy ideas.
Education
Project 2025’s proposal for America’s education system would be one of the most extreme plans yet, calling for eliminating the Department of Education, getting rid of all teachers unions, and tearing down regulations on education spending. Far-right “parental rights” organization Moms for Liberty and the anti-union Institute for Education Reform have partnered with Project 2025 to create these proposals.
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