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- leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
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.
71% are about to be disappointed, but people who rely on gov funding to treat life threatening chronic conditions are about to be dead…including kids. Cause thats what CHIP is, its medicaid for kids.
no more nursing care, or community senior center care for boomers, which is probably the most if not all of the medicare cost of (what the govt gives the recipient for the convalescent care"). one of my grandparents was on medicare before they passed during covid, it took almost all the allowance of what the govt gave her to, to the community center for her permanent care, and it