Fri
Apr 3 2026
06:13 am
The president "says it's 'not possible' for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and day care: 'We’re fighting wars'
He urged states to fund benefits programs instead because "we have to take care of one thing: military protection."
Hah! You'd have to hope to be in a blue state to get any of these benefits paid by the states. Tennessee can't survive without Federal funds.
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Hillary Clinton's
Hillary Clinton's response,
This isn’t surprising coming from a president who has dismissed America’s affordability crisis as a “hoax” and a “con job.” For most parents, the crunch is all too real. Our kids will pay the price for the president’s indifference.
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They ignore the financial burdens crushing parents who are trying to provide a safe, healthy, middle-class life for their kids. Their answer is too often nostalgia and misogyny: If we could turn back the clock to a time when women didn’t work (and knew their place), the economy would thrive and families would flourish. This is substantively and politically brain-dead.