71 percent of Donald Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts: Poll
thehill.com

Summary

A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.

Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.

Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.

This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 day ago

    Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base.

    They’re experiencing the same effect we do here on Lemmy or over on Reddit. Silo-ing. Echo chambering.

    I’ve tried sharing links with my people. The response is often “I’m not reading that fake shit.”

    Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base. Breaking those walls is a key component of the fix for this.

    ETA: No big gotcha in this cast it’s just basic info. The guy who runs it isn’t formerly trained, just keen on cognitive science. He started out mid 2010s with casts that could do well in a cog sci class, like the next incarnation of Tom Gillovich’s How We Know What Isn’t So. Great stuff. Then he lost himself in philosophical psych for a bit. Now he does pointed research topics with interviews.

    Anyway, this may be what you’re looking for:

    https://youarenotsosmart.com/2025/02/20/yanss-307-why-resistance-to-true-news-that-you-would-rather-not-believe-can-be-stronger-than-susceptibility-to-fake-news-that-you-wish-was-true/

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      i heard reddit have been very aggressive in banning linked comments now. in any case, either they say they arnt reading a fake “source”, or they keep asking for a source .

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Sure but it’s more this idea that everyone voting (or not) has the same knowledge base. Reading/listening, digesting, etc takes a lot of time and energy and many people have neither once they’re done with their jobs and kids for the day.

        I’m old and people are what I do, so there’s little extra effort on my part.

        To be like: how could they vote MAGA, knowing this, is not much different than saying: what do you mean you hired a guy to replace that window, you could’ve saved $500 doing it yourself, to someone who has never in their life installed a window.

        You may know how to replace an existing window but that doesn’t mean I do. Assuming shared knowledge is usually a bad play.