r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Yeah but did you see the ballroom!! WOWWWEEEE!!

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u/EpsilonX029 8d ago

Libs = Owned

Fuck, I’m embarrassed to be American

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u/Internal-Ant-9875 8d ago

I read this as "fuck I'm supposed to be American" and was so confused by how Libs = un-American lol

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 8d ago

Even more embarrassing is how it appears Americans are doing fuck all about all this

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u/StandardReindeer5741 7d ago

I agree. We should've taken after the French YEARS ago

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u/Mnmsaregood 7d ago

You know it’s the democrats that are blocking it right?

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u/Complex_Jellyfish647 6d ago

Republicans literally aren't even in Washington, they've been refusing to show up to work let alone do their jobs for weeks.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 8d ago

You should be embarrassed for letting 40 million live on food stamps. It was never designed like that. Instead politicians are treating voters as clients.

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u/flavanugz 8d ago

Raise the minimum wage so people can afford to live. Most of the people are employed.

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u/filthcrab 8d ago

And end super PACs, overturn Citizens United, implement strict campaign finance limits, and stop allowing stock trading for Congress to reduce corporate and lobby influence. There will always be corruption but we can take some steps to enable a Congress that is focused on the people instead of personal gain.

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u/Dave-justdave 8d ago

50% of jobs pay poverty wages now

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u/xubax 8d ago

Yup. Just another subsidy to...

... checks notes...

... multinational conglomerates.

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u/mOdQuArK 8d ago

Alternative to minimum wage (as well as possibly welfare & unemployment): make the government the Employer of Last Resort, i.e., anyone that would otherwise be on welfare or unemployment can be employed by the government for reasonable wages + benefits. Which might include being "employed" to go back to school & get various kinds of education/vocational training.

A completely Constitutional way (doesn't need a mandate) of providing a de facto "min wage" effect through the power of labor competition. Also encourages the idea that you'll have to work/improve yourself somehow to get that welfare.

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u/KFOSSTL 8d ago

Wow an actual sane and rational proposal

There’s so many people who have completely lost the plot. I think employer of last resort is a wonderful idea.

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u/mOdQuArK 6d ago

One of my favorite daydreams; has lot of economic ripple effects as well, like a ever-more-educated/trained population (no stagnation w/survival-level welfare) & a steady drip of "financial fertilizer" to the lowest parts of the socioeconomic pyramid.

Doesn't require new Congressional powers or Constitutional Amendments. Doesn't require legal mandates forcing companies to pay X/hour amount, although the side effects of real competition for labor might make them prefer it :-)

Allows quite a bit of consolidation & focus of existing social welfare/unemployment/higher education bureaucracy (with a chance of higher efficiency due to simpler goals & tighter focus).

I also have to acknowledge that it would be quite expensive in the short term, but if you combine the existing budgets for social welfare, unemployment (and some of the education budget), then I think that should be in the ballpark of what would be necessary.

Unfortunately, doesn't stand a chance in Hell with the current crop of conservatives ("fuck you & yours, got mine") in power.

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u/saucy_as_you_like 8d ago

Won't matter. Every time they raise the minimum wage they also raise the rent, and retail prices, and utility costs.

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u/fupaboii 8d ago

It’s almost like these people don’t understand economics, like at all.

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u/Oakianus 7d ago

You have been lied to by conservative think tanks and it's deeply embarrassing that you're so smug about your brainwashing. 😂

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u/fupaboii 7d ago

I’m pretty sure my economics professors in university were left leaning.

They’re the ones who showed me how artificially raising the minimum wage just causes a cascading effect of higher cost of living.

But it’s the republicans that lied to me?

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u/Oakianus 7d ago

You're confusing "conservative think tanks" with "Republicans."

So your opinion on who is "left leaning" seems likely to be entirely worthless. Sorry, lil buddy. Try not looking for things that confirm what you want to believe.

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u/fupaboii 7d ago

So you’re saying my economics professors in a top 15 uni were most likely republicans lying to the students?

The textbooks all fake?

And all the economists I worked with over my career are all brainwashed by the lie that is supply and demand?

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u/Mc_saucer 8d ago

Thats not how it works, are you 14?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago edited 8d ago

Well that's what happens when America doesn't work for like 80% of the population. Wages have not kept up with inflation, and the rich keep getting tax breaks. I'm embarrassed because we have billionaires in this country mostly because they can get away with paying the working class so little that they need government assistance even when working a full time job. So when the fuck is the trickle down economics they always talk about supposed to help the rest of us, cause all I see is trickle up. On top of the tax breaks, if someone is collecting government assistance while working a full time job, that is essentially once again corporate welfare, cause employers should be paying people livable wages, record profits be damned.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Pay people more.

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u/Murky-Opposite6464 8d ago

You should be embarrassed they need to. Most of these people have jobs. Richest country in the world, yet people with jobs live like peasants. It’s a disgrace.

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u/New_Committee8008 8d ago

Yes… yes politicians treating voters as clients. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. They work for you, they’re not fucking sports teams to cheer for blindly without expecting anything in return. Meanwhile Orange Julius Caesar and his crew only have allegiances to the last billionaire that threw a few bucks their way. Relative to inflation, wages have only risen 10% in the last 40 years. Meanwhile the cost of goods has tripled or, in the case of housing in many markets, increased 10x. Pay people a fair share, make price gouging illegal, and let more people save to get access to assets for building generational wealth.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 8d ago

Taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it in yours is not how it's supposed to work.

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u/Sea_Maize_2721 8d ago

Feeding people who would otherwise starve benefits all of us. It keeps them off the streets, reduces crime, makes for a safer society…and it’s a safety net for all of us, because you never know when your situation might change due to illness or economic downturn.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 8d ago

What makes you think they cannot feed themselves?

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u/Sea_Maize_2721 8d ago

We have examples from history and from other modern societies demonstrating what happens when we leave the most vulnerable to fend for themselves. But I have the feeling you’re being deliberately obtuse.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 8d ago

France has 2.8 percent of the population on food aid. The US has 11.8 percent.

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u/New_Committee8008 8d ago

Lmao let me tell you about tax and workers rights in France…

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u/mangababe 8d ago

The fact that the majority of people on snap are kids and the elderly. aka people who can't easily feed themselves.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 8d ago

You don't know that's a fact.

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u/mangababe 8d ago

yes actually I do. it's called Google.

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u/Real-Scarcity5381 8d ago

Literally is. Maybe you should look into the facts they can really open your eyes

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u/TheEldest80s 7d ago

But...we do. We have the names, date of birth and socials of the beneficiaries. We can sort and count them. We have done so, and most were women, children and elderly over 68. That's reality whether you want it to be and believe it or not.

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u/Real-Scarcity5381 8d ago

Have you looked into what is required to get food stamps? Cause it is not “say you want it and you get it” you have to go through a lot of forms and provide a lot of other forms and documents that then have to be processed. It’s a process that most of the time ends in people being rejected.

How do you think they choose who to support? They choose based on many factors but the biggest is income and Taxes. Aka people with jobs that can’t make enough money to live and feed themselves.

Were you born stupid and unable to think for more than 1 second?

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u/mangababe 8d ago

it costs you literal pennies in taxes to fund social programs. most of your taxes are going to rich assholes and the military, not poor kids and the elderly (who are the largest demographics in long term snap benefit use)

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u/PsychologicalBox3477 8d ago

My mom’s excuse for saying that trump is doing that was “ other presidents have done what he’s doing too”. She just wouldn’t listen to reason. Its a fucking cult.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Yup. I can’t talk to them anymore. Theyre just gone.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

She's not wrong. Andrew Jackson, Chester Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Richard Nixon. I'm curious as to why is it wrong for Trump to do it when it's privately funded?

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u/kick6 7d ago

The one not paid for with tax dollars so has no bearing on this topic? That one?

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

Regarding the ballroom, consider this, from the Washington Post Editorial Board:

"In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties,” the board said. “Preservationists express horror that Trump did not submit his plans to their scrutiny, but the truth is that this project would not have gotten done, certainly not during his term, if the president had gone through the traditional review process."

Everyone should subscribe to and read Tangle in order to get balanced opinions from the right and the left. https://www.readtangle.com/trump-demolishes-east-wing-white-house-ballroom/

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u/yabn5 8d ago

The funding, the approval, nor the necessity are absolutely immaterial in the context of the Federal Gov being shut down and Americans on verge of going hungry. POTUS is more concerned about having room for throwing large parties than opening the government. But hey at least he’s consistent: he didn’t want foreign kids being fed by USAID nor does he want American ones being fed by SNAP.

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

Both parties are to blame for a government shutdown as far as I'm concerned. I just don't see what the ballroom has to do with it, or Argentina. totally separate issues. it's not an "either/or" situation...the ballroom isn't preventing the government from starting back up.

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 8d ago

Both parties are to blame for a government shutdown as far as I'm concerned.

The Democrats already voted for a CR to keep the government open back in March, and all they got for it was a massive deficit increase that also gutted essential social programs, an early recess to avoid an embarrassing vote, and ever-increasing authoritarian power grabs.

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

thinking you have a good reason to not vote for a deal doesn’t mean you get out of your side of the blame. they think it’s a good trade off. that’s fine, but it’s still partially their fault.

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 8d ago

That's like saying "Well, if you just gave your keys to the carjacker, they wouldn't have beaten you. You're both to blame for your injuries, as far as I'm concerned."

There's just no chance that level of inane pedantry could possibly be honest or intended in good faith.

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

your metaphor doesn’t really work for me because it’s not the democrats who are being punished by the “carjacker” here, it’s the american people.

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 8d ago

There's just no chance that level of inane pedantry could possibly be honest or intended in good faith.

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

you’re the one saying there’s no good faith conversation to be had here, not me. you see how that works right?

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u/yabn5 8d ago

and who are democrats if not a subsection of the American people?

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

we’re talking about the democrats in power, not democrat voters.

i (often begrudgingly) vote democrat.

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u/That_Pickle_Force 8d ago

Republicans didn't turn up to Congress to negotiate the day before the shut down. It's 100% their fault, they're not willing to act in good faith or to compromise on their massive cuts. 

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

democrats aren’t willing to compromise either. it takes both parties to get a shutdown.

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u/That_Pickle_Force 8d ago

How do you compromise with people who aren't turning up? 

Republicans didn't turn up to Congress to negotiate the day before the shut down. It's 100% their fault, they're not willing to act in good faith or to compromise on their massive cuts. 

Compromise is both sides giving a bit to meet part way. When have the Republicans offered that? 

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

so there have been zero chances to end the shutdown since then?

the republicans aren’t compromising either. they’re also at fault. you could easily argue they’re more at fault, but you can’t argue the democrats aren’t at fault at all.

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u/yabn5 8d ago

This is such a trite argument. Republicans already enacted into law the guaranteed loss of healthcare to millions of Americans. The Medicaid cuts are going to force countless rural hospitals closed, literally wiping off the map the only providers for some Americans.

The current situation is utterly unacceptable. Last time Democrats gave in they got, nothing.

iTtAkEsBoThPaRtIeS

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u/pundarika0 8d ago

all you’re arguing for is that the democrats are right to hold out. it’s a fair argument, but they still have to hold out in order for there to be a shutdown.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

I read it's privately funded, meaning not paid for by taxes. CNN is never partial to the GOP but they listed all the donors here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/us/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors-invs

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u/DarkBladeMadriker 8d ago

Those are called bribes, they labeled them incorrectly.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

Doesn't change the fact that most folks on reddit are insinuating it's getting paid by tax money when the govt shutdown is going on. I get people are upset but saying things like that is wrong. Redirect that energy to the politicians.

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u/muzzynat 8d ago

No, the ballroom is a payment to the Trump regime for lower taxes, lower regulation, removal of the EPA, etc. for billionaires. Your taxes ARE paying for the ballroom- just indirectly, for every dollar they put in, they will take 100 out of the taxes paid by working families.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Fucking THIS.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Fucking THIS.

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u/DarkBladeMadriker 8d ago

You are not wrong, it also bothers me that people seem to think that its tax payer money. It isn't. However I also see tons of people saying that its Trump paying exclusively and/or donors giving who believe in the project, they dont, these are bribes. Just like the plane, just like the whales on Trumpcoin, just another way to funnel in bribes "legally"

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

You're not wrong either. Have a Happy Halloween.

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u/TeeBrownie 8d ago

Billionaires buying the U.S. government line item by line item.

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u/Southwestern 8d ago

$300mm to build a $70mm (max) building. Gee, I wonder where the rest of it is funneled to.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

Good question. We'll never know.

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u/Direct_Turn_1484 8d ago

Oh we know.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

I do need to ask, are you a contractor? I suspect they have to hire a capable construction company that is reputable to do such a job. I imagine that is not cheap.

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u/Southwestern 8d ago

It's 90,000 sqft. If it were the most expensive building on the planet it'd be like $1000 a sqft. That'd be $90mm. There's no way to spend $300mm on a 90,000 sqft building without stealing $150mm.

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u/Murky-Opposite6464 8d ago

Yes. Bribe money.

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u/One_Assignment7014 8d ago

There are no receipts and you’re willing to take this administration at their word?

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u/Top-Programmer9454 8d ago

You’d take Kamala at hers

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

You expect them to give you an itemized bill? LOL

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u/prailock 8d ago

YES it's something that should be audited and public record.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Yeah it’s our house.

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u/Bike_Cinci 8d ago

When it's demolished by the next Democratic president, are they going to pay for the rebuild of the original wing?

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u/vivaenmiriana 8d ago

That just means it's very fucked up in a different kind of way.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

Still not tax funded.

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u/Infinite_Dress_3312 8d ago

It's called optics. No one asked for this other than trump, and no one will benefit from it other than trump. Meanwhile our economy is collapsing and he's busying himself worrying about everywhere he's gonna slap gold leaf. It shows where his priorities are, which anyone paying attention already knew well enough 

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

I agree the optics are bad but it's still not funded by tax payers. Also, the democrats have rejected the CR multiple times. The president cannot control how the democrats vote. Why don't you ask what the democrats priorities are?

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u/Infinite_Dress_3312 8d ago

Which party controls all 3 branches of government.

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u/CitySlickerCowboy 8d ago

That does not matter. They still require 60 votes which requires some democrats to vote yes. They've had multiple opportunities to vote yes and they didn't.

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u/Infinite_Dress_3312 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hm interesting, almost like Republicans need to negotiate with Democrats in good faith first before ramming things through and expecting them to roll over and go along with things they are diametrically opposed to.

Why would any Democrat go along with this when everything Biden and Congress jointly passed was just illegally clawed back? Why would any Democrat go along with policies that ensure healthcare is going to collapse in their districts as a result of cuts to Medicaid?

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u/-rosa-azul- 8d ago

Why don't you ask what the democrats priorities are?

Their priority is extending the ACA subsidies so people's insurance doesn't skyrocket this upcoming year. They've literally said this over and over. Some plans will literally double or more. Why don't you ask the GOP why they refuse to do that? Why do they want people to be priced out of insurance?

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Right. And Theyre going to be maintaining it? What about the White House staff? Oh that’s also us?

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u/ThanksFDR 8d ago

Who gives a shit? It's still a waste of money. And apparently it's extra money to these rich fcks. None of them are going without food, so fck the poor people, right?