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News & Current Events Apr 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM

Trump Slashed Medicaid. Now He Says US Can’t Fund It Because of His War on Iran.

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Trump Slashed Medicaid. Now He Says US Can’t Fund It Because of His War on Iran.
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Trump Slashed Medicaid. Now He Says US Can’t Fund It Because of His War on Iran.
The president’s comments come as the Pentagon seeks $200 billion to continue funding the unpopular, destructive war.

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Gregorygregory888888 Apr 2, 2026 +31
Hey MAGA. How do you like him now?
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Slow-Recipe7005 Apr 2, 2026 +25
They still like him, and they will continue to like him to their graves. Admittedly, a handful of people have seen the light, but the most h******* MAGAts will never believe, because: \>They value causing suffering to others more than aleviating their own suffering \>Leaving would require them to admit that they were wrong
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Gregorygregory888888 Apr 2, 2026 +9
I've heard more and more are upset with Trump and so on. How many is a real guess, though.
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ClarinetMaster117 Apr 2, 2026 +7
Guess we’ll find out in the polls
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Newscast_Now Apr 2, 2026 +7
On a related note, at least 90% of the people who support Donald Trump today were plain old Republicans yesterday. This is always what Republicans have wanted. Pretty much everything Republicans have told us was one giant lie. And that includes that they oppose George W. Bush and support Donald Trump because he’s different.
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Truthisnotallowed Apr 2, 2026 +7
They still think Trump is doing what needs to be done to make things better in the future, and if it makes things worse right now that is Biden/Obama/Clinton/ The Democrats fault. How sad is that?
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tacoseatingllama Apr 2, 2026 +12
Well, as an European, I gotta admit Trump has definitely awakened me from my naive reality I was sleeping in. I did not live in a world where you just make shit up and that becomes the new reality. Truth & justice definitely don’t hit the same anymore.
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Routine_Bit_8184 Apr 2, 2026 +11
spent your tax dollars on a war and then wants to steal even more of your tax dollars because it is expensive to kill people overseas and f*** up the global economy and supply chains. Literally it would be hard to be any more pathetic than this man. Concentration camps, extrajudicial para-military that answers to him only that is killing and disappearing people, tariffs jacking up prices, invading a country that was not a threat to us to murder people at great expense and get American service members killed and wounded, flushing all soft power down the toilet because he literally doesn't understand it, destroying relationships with our allies, constant law breaking, a president that raped children and trafficked them to other child rapists for decades and is now covering it up, I could keep going all day. There is nothing "conservative" about him but conservatives decided that the only label that matters is "republican" and the only thing that defines what "republican" means is whatever needs to be said to support trump and justify his latest words and actions.
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Rare_Paper4473 Apr 2, 2026 +8
Once again, not a word about cutting Israel's healthcare funding that it's allies pay for though. Why the f*** is it expected that allies should cut themselves to the bone to pay for *their* war?
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NotThatHandsomePete Apr 2, 2026 +8
Good luck red states. You voted for this.
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damnthistrafficjam Apr 3, 2026 +6
He’s already withheld a billion + 250 million a quarter from our blue state because of “unresolved” fraud. We’re actively trying the cases and jailing people, but Dr Oz pulls this BS at Trump’s behest because he hates our governor. But not a whisper about rampant fraud in Florida. I don’t know how much more of a hit our Medicaid can take. And now he wants to spread it around.
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Smidge-of-the-Obtuse Apr 2, 2026 +8
This will hurt the red states enormously, and push the nation even harder towards Medicare for all. People don’t care about anything until it affects them, and when they can’t afford their medicine or their kids medicine, you’ll see it show up in the polls
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Truthisnotallowed Apr 2, 2026 +3
>Two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio unironically advised Iran to spend its public funds “helping the people of Iran” instead of on weapons, President Donald Trump announced that the US government has “to take care of one thing: military protection” and isn’t able to provide people in the US with necessities like healthcare and childcare. >“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You gotta let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it too,” said Trump. “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.” >“Oh wow, he actually admitted it,” said US Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) in response. If only Rubio would talk to Trump about 'helping the people of the United States' - and if only Trump would listen. But Rubio is not that brave or that stupid - he knows Trump would never listen, and would only attack Rubio instead.
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isekai_cheese Apr 2, 2026 +3
can we start the trials for treason including everyone that voted for this orange f***?
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schu4KSU Apr 2, 2026 +2
Typical Holy Thursday message from the GOP. FTK…
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CHEVIEWER1 Apr 2, 2026 -6
The Artemis program including the launch 🚀 cost is in the billions snd ongoing.
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Truthisnotallowed Apr 2, 2026 +8
The Artemis program costs the U.S. approx 7 billion dollars per year. Trump's attempt at a short victorious war has cost us already over 50 billion dollars and he is asking Congress for another 200 billion to keep it going. You can argue that the Artemis program is a waste, or too expensive, or that we can't afford it - but bringing it up here, in this context seems like just a 'what-about-ist' distraction from the real problem - which is Trump and his penchant of militaristic wars of aggression.
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Plastic_Kangaroo5720 Apr 3, 2026 +3
The money spent on space travel is minuscule compared to money spent on the military, and it’s always the first to get cut, despite the benefits and knowledge it brings. Space travel isn’t the problem. It’s the military-industrial complex.
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