As U.S. House GOP adopts budget, protesters rally against Medicaid reductions, tax cuts
Source: Nebraska Examiner
By: Ashley Murray - April 10, 2025 8:42 pm
WASHINGTON — Hundreds demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday, urging congressional Republicans to rethink cutting programs vital to millions of Americans as a way to help extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
The previously scheduled rally, organized by the advocacy coalition Fair Share America, occurred less than an hour after House Republicans, by a narrow margin, adopted a budget resolution that paves the way for negotiations on deep spending cuts as Congress works on an extension of the 2017 tax law.
The advocates, who flew and bused in from 30 states to rally and meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, say the cuts would be devastating for low-income Americans who rely on government health care, nutrition and early education programs, among other benefits.
A state-by-state report from Democrats last month projected up to 25 million across the country could lose access to Medicaid, a health program that covers medical costs for some low-income people as well as nursing home care, if Republicans successfully pass their proposed cuts to make room in the budget for a roughly $4.5 trillion tax cut extension.
Mickey Rottinghaus, 70, of Iowa, told a crowd of protesters she’s afraid of her adult son losing Medicaid benefits. The demonstrators, organized by the national advocacy group Fair Share America, protested congressional Republicans’ proposed spending cuts outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
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I mostly responding in order to kick
However,
I read somewhere that Mike Johnson wants work requirements for Medicaid saying something about the dignity that comes with work. WTF?
There is very little dignity in work when layoffs are a strategy. Work as hard as you want, they lay you off anyway. You're just a number to them. Realizing this, I see no dignity in it.
Government work? You're fired. No reason given.
Get back to work grandpa! Maybe your nursing home will pay you to scrub toilets. Have alzheimers? well too bad.
Disabled and can't do construction work or field work, the only jobs available where you live? Tough. No medicine for you.
I hate republicans.