🔰Chuck Schumer Decries 'All-Out Assault' On Medicaid In Trump's Proposed 'Skinny Budget'

Now on the Trump budget. If you asked AI to come up with a federal budget that utterly screws over average Americans, you know what the AI would come up with? Donald Trump's latest budget proposal. So today, let's look at Trump's so-called skinny budget a little more closely. It's hard to believe that this is a serious proposal. If enacted, Trump budget would completely gut public safety, sometimes something they say they want to strengthen. Trump's own FBI director, Kash Patel, one of the most loyal Trumpites, testified in the House yesterday that, quote, the FBI can't meet its mission to keep Americans safe with the cuts in the Trump's budget. If Kash Patel, one of Donald Trump's most loyal acolytes, says this budget won't work, who else is going to come out against it? How can we take this budget seriously? If Patel is against it, so will many other cabinet officers, publicly or privately. How carefully was it even done? Did the people who put it out know they're slashing the FBI? The budget has sloppy and reckless written all over it, and even Kash Patel agrees. And that's not all. The Trump budget would also strangle American families. It's an all-out assault on American health care. Under Donald Trump's budget, America's housing crisis would go from bad to worse. Hell will freeze over before Democrats entertain anything remotely close to Trump's budget. This budget proposal is dead on arrival in the Senate, and anything close to it will go nowhere as well. On Medicaid and CBO, the Republicans right now are struggling with a very basic idea that the truth sometimes hurts. In their case, the truth is that Republican policies are so deeply unpopular with the American people. Republicans are realizing that, and it's left them paralyzed. Now that Republicans actually have to produce a bill, reality is catching up with them. No more bland words. No more words. Don't worry. We'll protect you. The budget shows what they're actually up to. Yesterday, the CBO reported that no matter which scheme of Medicaid cuts Republicans are likely to choose, the result will be that millions will become uninsured. Republicans can try in any way to make their bill work, but their numbers just don't add up. There's no way for Republicans to accomplish their massive tax giveaways without devastating millions of working people, middle-class people. Even if the Republicans pass a fraction of their proposed Medicaid cuts, it still means millions will lose their health care. And for what? So that billionaires can get another tax break that they don't need at a time of high inflation in a possible recession? That's the definition of cruelty. This is the fundamental problem Republicans are facing right now as their infighting continues. That their policies are deeply, deeply unpopular with the American people. Not just blue state Republicans, but purple and red state Republicans too. Telling the American people that you want to ax their health care so that extremely rich people can pay less in taxes is a horrible message that virtually hardly anyone in America agrees with. But that is precisely what Republicans are trying to do, so it's no surprise they're eating their own tails trying to figure out how to proceed.