Destroying what’s left of the social security web and the nation’s funds in a single fell swoop is extra than simply sadistic, myopic and catastrophic — it’s downright spectacular.
President Donald Trump and the Republican Celebration simply agreed to kick hundreds of thousands of People off of Medicaid and food-assistance packages whereas concurrently inflating the federal authorities’s finances deficit by trillions of {dollars}. With the passage of The One Massive Stunning Invoice Act, 12 million People are actually susceptible to dropping their well being protection and three million schoolchildren will lose their lunches whereas the extremely wealthy reap even higher advantages and tax cuts from our already damaged system, all whereas protection spending skyrockets and the nation’s coffers drain.
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The congressional finances workplace estimates that the Massive Stunning Invoice will improve the nation’s deficit by $3.4 trillion regardless of the large, actually murderous cuts to Medicaid and different social packages, which, as The Day by day Present host Jon Stewart identified tonight, is as unlikely an achievement as placing on 50 kilos whereas dropping a grand a month on semaglutide injections:
After going over the large cuts to social packages, Stewart gawked on the $3.4 trillion determine projected for the federal government’s ballooning deficit because of the act, yelling, “You in some way managed to severely minimize the security web and develop the deficit! That’s spectacular! That’s a kind of, ‘Hey man, how’d you acquire all that weight?’ ‘Ozempic!’”
“That’s one thing that’s onerous to do!” Stewart exclaimed. “I’m on Ozempic, and now, I’m actually f***ing fats!”
To offset the financial savings from such drastic cuts and additional deepen the deficit, Trump and the Republican Celebration handed hyperbolic funding measures for immigration and border management and, in fact, obscene tax breaks to the rich within the Massive Stunning Invoice, with an additional $150 billion allotted for ICE. “Are you telling me, all this loopy shit that has been taking place is broke ICE? Is that what you’re saying?!?!” Stewart requested.
However for all of the minimize social packages, paramilitary budgeting and $4 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy contained within the Massive Stunning Invoice, no less than our opposition social gathering is placing up the perfect combat they will muster — which is none in any respect. Stewart mocked the embarrassing victory lap that Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer took after putting the title off of the One Massive Stunning Invoice Act. “Oh shit, no you didn’t!” Stewart mentioned to the senator from New York. “Severely, inform me you didn’t simply brag about altering nothing concerning the invoice however its title.”
“Are you attempting to suck?” Stewart requested Schumer.
Many future generations of People will probably be pressured to pay for the kleptocratic Republican Celebration’s brazen raid of our nation’s funds, however, hey, no less than we received an image of Home of Representatives Minority chief Hakeem Jeffries holding a baseball bat whereas attempting desperately to look robust underneath overhead lighting. Mentioned Stewart of Jeffries’ response to the continuing catastrophe, “Hakeem Jeffries answered with imagery, imagery that sends a transparent message to Republicans: that Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats are ready for his or her mothers to choose them up from T-ball!”
