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Republicans in the US House pass spending bill that focuses on cutting social services and giving the ultra wealthy tax breaks. Still needs Senate approval. (www.bbc.com)

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Additionally, the bill makes significant spending cuts, including to the Medicaid healthcare programme for lower-income Americans as well as Snap, a food assistance programme used by more than 42 million Americans.

These cuts were the subject of intense friction among Republicans, which was finally overcome after the President travelled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. He privately told lawmakers to put aside their objections or face consequences.

Democrats also fiercely opposed the bill and warned that the cuts could have dire consequences for millions of lower-income Americans.

"Children will get hurt. Women will get hurt. Older Americans who rely on Medicaid for nursing home care and for home care will get hurt," Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said on the House floor.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The bill also fully bans Medicaid Gender Affirming Care for Adults.

Which is absolutely wild, considering how cheap it is and how dramatically it improves people's lives. This isn't about saving money, it's pure hate and control.

[–] Estiar 3 points 1 day ago

It's not about cost for care benefits to the patients, it's purely an ideological thing.

I can't speak of the cost to Medicare but I can speak to the cost to the military.

The DoD spent 52 million dollars over 10 years on gender affirming care. It will spend 18 billion on replacing all of the trans service members that it is kicking out.

This means it will take 3,000 years of GAC to catch up with the cost of dismissing all of these service members.