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We Need Medicaid More Than Billionaires Need Tax Cuts

Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planning to utterly demolish Social Security’s workforce to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

Workaday people — in red states as well as blue — are erupting in spontaneous protests against Trump and Musk’s corporate takeover.

In an age of climate disasters, insurance should be a safeguard for families, not a gamble where the house always wins.

Some states are landing on a straightforward answer: fossil fuel companies.

Public service isn’t about bureaucracy — it’s about maintaining trust and connection. No wonder billionaires want to destroy it.

The Trump administration is defunding and censoring science to serve corrupt corporate interests.

Republican lawmakers want to slash services like Medicaid while pouring billions more into the Pentagon. They should do the opposite.

For the cost of mass deportations, we could instead erase medical debt, provide universal school lunches, and end homelessness.

The company continues to exploit workers in the Global South as it reels in billions, creating a “race to the bottom” that hurts all workers.