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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the 11 million losing medicaid is due to red states choosing to "unwind" it. It's not really an economy thing so much as a deliberate asshole thing.
Everything else is spot on though.
Child poverty too….it was way down with recovery funding from the pandemic that conservatives gleefully killed.
Right about the medicaid. The child poverty is similar (Democrats expanded Child Tax Credit, Republicans refused to extend it. Presumably because people like OP would make posts like this to complain about Democrats. It's brutally cynical but effective.)
Republicans have also been blocking an increase in the minimum wage and attempts to eliminate student debt.
They had help on that. 8 Democrats voted against workers and with Republicans on the minimum wage increase.
Isn't the child poverty part related to Republicans refusing to extend the better child tax credit?
Well you know maybe people in November will think
"I really want to hurt trans people, but I kinda like not dying in a diabetic coma. Hmm better vote D this time"
I really don't know what to say. All these people consistently voting against their own best interests. I don't agree with the shits at Koch but I get why they do it, they want the money.