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Mark's avatar

Congress should cut their salaries in proportion to the cuts to kids.

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

If only Congress worked that way, but you know it doesn't.

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Adam's avatar
Jun 2Edited

1). These are nouveau-christians. When they say "suffer the children" they mean it!

2). If those "poor" children were actually as important as those woke-mind-virus sufferers claim, they would have been born with MONEY!!!

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

i would love to see a comparative study of achieved excellence vs economic class. My impression is that the scientific, artistic, engineering, athletic and literary elites, as measured by symbols such as Nobel Prizes are disproportionately populated by people who were born poor or middle class.

The billionaires are afraid of the competition and the ignorant MAGAts need someone to look down on.

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BTAM Master's avatar

Poor people have chosen to be poor and chosen to suffer. /s

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Adam's avatar
Jun 3Edited

Like them rape babies chose they mama to be raped by they daddy so's they could be borned in the love of Jesus Christ, free of love, grace, joy or salvation but with plenty o gunz n beer, bibles n tatooz amen!

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HELENE JOHNSON's avatar

really? how do you know this? I have worked for years in social services field, no one has chosen this avenue of life. some have become very ill and lost jobs, others were in car accidents and others were left my husband or wife and stripped of everything. Where did you get your information that this is a chosen position in life?

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BTAM Master's avatar

Ummm... did you miss the /s? It means sarcasm.

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Peter's avatar

This is the inevitable culmination of 40 years of failed Reaganism, at least failed for the majority of the American people. It is wildly successful for those it was always intended to benefit - the rich, the richer and the obscenely rich. And now they aren't even hiding the intent or the result - more money for those who can never have enough and less for those who desperately need it the most. This should spark a wholesale electoral revolution throwing every single one of these Republican thieves from office hopefully before it sparks a violent revolution by desperate people.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Thank you for naming names. Reagan was a fn disaster for this country for the have-nots.

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Ken Bass's avatar

Party of “family values”? They say they want to make healthier kids—MAHA; they say they want to increase the birth rate; they say they want to promote “Christian values”. They are CINO’s—Christians In Name Only. The GOP—Grand Oligarch Party.

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celeste k.'s avatar

They are nazis. And all nazis should be eradicated.

If we don't protect the integrity of our elections, anyone of middle class status will be poor, and the poor will start dying in pandemic numbers. The 2026 elections are our chance to stop this abomination. We must protect our elections from the corruption.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Not sure how we are going to protect our elections with Trump's Gestapo running the show. There will be arrests at polling places of voters, hand-cuffed election judges marched out to black SUVs and the Supreme Court waiting to agree all this is legal because "Donny Did It" until the votes are counted with all Republicans winning.

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Ann Sharon's avatar

Local officials run elections. Dems need to make sure all their poll worker slots and the others positions provided to each party are filled. That’s how you make sure the correct procedures are followed.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

This is a revived version of eugenics at work here in that pure survival of the (social) fittest way. Babies dying in Africa - who the f cares? Bombs dropping on Arabs. Ditto. Poor people in America - get up or get gone. No help to get up? Then die motherf***r.

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Hannah's avatar

Well if you are white and preferably blonde, everything is fine.

Obviously I don't mean you personally.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

No justification was provided for these proposed cuts, which makes sense, as I don't know how you justify taking resources away from children living in poverty. The press and Democrats should be hammering the Trump administration on this issue left and right, not to mention voters contacting their elected representatives to make sure they oppose defunding public assistance programs.

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Linda Owen's avatar

$10 a month for children's fruits and vegetables. Meanwhile, RFK Jr's bogus AI-written report claims poor diet causes childhood chronic disease. Another example of chaos in the regime.

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MBHayes's avatar

Thank you for this article with a very clear presentation of the funding cuts affecting children. It's embarrassing to see this in the richest country on earth. I don't know how local communities and non profits are going to pick up the slack.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

non-profits are not going to pick up the slack. Where do they get their money? From the poor rubes who are getting poorer every day. Not the billionaires.

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Ann Sharon's avatar

Because of all the programs being cut, most communities cannot pick up the slack. This spring funding for food pantries was cut. That means all these organizations and farmers who survive are already behind on funding. Planting season is over. Maybe they guessed right and maybe they didn’t.

https://www.today.com/food/news/usda-food-bank-cuts-rcna200070

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Well Trump never liked fruits or vegetables, and Elon Musk's drug-addled brain has been known to eliminate programs that increase harm to poor children--his racist predilection would never want to help children and people of color of all ages. All of these developments you outline couldn't make life any worse for the poor. Your delineation of facts should inspire town hall back lash and add to the elimination of all heartless Republicans from the House--and Joni Ernst's willingness to follow the deceitful party line in all matters should spell her end to power.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

No more power and no more generals to sleep with? Poor Joni!! Maybe she should play here "we all die" card early and be gone.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Joni will always be elected because the farmers in Iowa love her. She's their Gal.

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

There must be a way to contradict the farmers reasoning that will end that love.

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Jim Carmichael's avatar

Excellent analysis, team!

I see echoes of biblical killing of the first-born in this budget. It is cruel, senseless, and inhumane. Time for another letter to the Senators.

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Therese S.'s avatar

And Republicans wonder why there aren't more families with children.

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Mary's avatar

Indeed!!

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Katy Bolger's avatar

We need a children's march. We need a poor person's march. We need those who do not like to see children starve and die in our own communities to march to protest to scream. MLK's next big move was the poor person's march. It's not too late.

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Hannah's avatar

There was a poor people's march in DC last year. It was large and got zero press. Of course.

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Susan Ross's avatar

Yesterday I wrote to all the senators on the education committee about the importance of government funding for public schools and the letters I received back, “Please write to your state senator”. This is federal policy originally instituted to help bring some form of equality in education, which we know has never been true but still so many parts of the country still desperately need that money. Children can’t think if they can’t eat, and to prevent them from fruits and vegetables, a roof over their heads, a reason to hope and play and have a future, it’s a form of genocide, and this administration has done generational damage already far into the future for everyone. A population that is stunted in early development can not think, be as productive, and contribute as effectively. We do not know where the next brilliant ideas and visions come from. But I can tell you this. Money does not make the man. Trump was born with the golden spoon, his ability to process thought is marginal at best Bbut look at Stephen Hawkins, an incredible thinker, visionary, who had to contend with unfathomable disabilities, and he contributed in profound ways to our thinking of the universe.

Who are we to choose.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Thank you Susan for this brief and broad summary of an intolerable situation. We the people demand equality, safety and compassion toward all human beings. We the people do not worship money or equate having it with being better than others. We have strove for generations to make this country a good place for all people, certainly to take care of our children, our poor, our elderly and our sick; we do not need to be a member of a religious sect to see that charity is part of being a good person. Charity takes all forms. Feed the babies. Tend the sick. Care for for the old.

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Viktoria Peterson's avatar

Stephen Hawking

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Hannah's avatar

That response makes no sense.

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Sanford Herzfeld's avatar

Programs that help shelter or feed families must be protected if we have any chance of retaining our souls.

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Bon's avatar

The cruelty is the point.

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Peter Warren's avatar

It appears they figured out how to implement the final solution against poor people without have to build the infrastructure of concentration camps. Just starve them in their own homes/shelters/hotels. No need to round anyone up.

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Robert's avatar

Very important enlightenment for all to see! The cracks just keep getting wider with your reporting Judd. Keep it coming!

Every word, every paragraph with every report sends those ripples of truth that can not be denied. Along with Mark’s suggestion…cut the staff of Congress which has grown five fold since 1970.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Cut the salaries of all in Congress by 90%. They do not need staff since they just vote for whatever Trump wants. Let them buy their own computers and paper. Let them send all their money-grabbing "please send money to fight Trump" letters first class mail. Let them clean their own offices and buildings. Yes, it puts good people out of work, but they may not like the job so much if they actually have to work and pay for the honor. Let's start over!

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