We Can't Afford You
NBC News:Trump says it's ‘not possible’ for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and daycare: 'We're fighting wars' — Trump urged states to fund benefits programs instead because “we have to take care of one thing: military protection.” — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it's “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that it should be up to the states to “take care” of those programs while the federal government focuses on military spending. The president’s remarks were delivered to attendees at a private Easter luncheon at the White House, where Trump also accused Democratic-led states of fraud.
He went on to say that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care. You got to let a state take care of day care, and they should pay for it too.”
Later in his remarks, the president added that states would have to raise their taxes to pay for child care costs and that the federal government “could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up” for it.
“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”
Cassandra Buchman / Straight Arrow News: Trump says US can't fund day care, Medicaid because 'We're fighting wars'Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:Trump backs off campaign promises to protect Medicare, help with child careAlan Rappeport / New York Times: War Clarifies Trump's Spending Priorities: The Military, Not Child Care
To recap, we'll be getting a resurgence in diseases because of Bobby Jr., & there won't be any money for the children or anyone else, because we're using it to murder people while bringing a sovereign nation "back to the Stone Age." Or
not using it to "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States", to coin a phrase.
Piling on, at 1847:
Trump Wasted $3 Billion on Tomahawks to Attack Iran. Here's What Americans Could Have Got Instead.
The US government has deployed 850 Tomahawk missiles to fight Trump's illegal and brutal war on Iran, and it has done so as it continues to slash funding for public services at home.
Another reminder that only chumps & idiots pay taxes.
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