Opinion: Trump Gives Churches Free Rein To Campaign For Profit
Greedy evangelicals expected much more in remuneration for their electoral support for Trump’s candidacy than freedom to violate IRS rules with impunity.
Greedy evangelicals expected much more in remuneration for their electoral support for Trump’s candidacy than freedom to violate IRS rules with impunity.
Maddow interviewed a woman with a brain tumor who was promised by her GOP congressman that he would oppose Trumpcare. Today, he voted for it.
“I would predict that in less than seven years, we’ll be in a single-payer system. That’s the great irony of this.”
It’s time to stop labeling this a health care policy and instead call it what it is: a death sentence for millions of people.
Americans are quickly mobilizing to defeat vulnerable GOP candidates who voted in favor the disastrous legislation.
Candidate Donald Trump promised people that no one would lose their coverage, premiums would go down, he would take care of preexisting conditions, there wouldn’t be any Medicaid changes, he would cover more people, and leave no one worse off by getting rid of the lifesaving impacts of Obamacare.
All of this was a lie.
Clinton encouraged Americans to support Democratic candidates in swing districts represented by Republicans who voted for Trumpcare.
Democrats need to win 24 seats to flip the House in 2018, and here is a list of 24 vulnerable Republicans who could lose their jobs because they voted for Trumpcare.
The ACLU looked at Trump’s religious liberty executive order and determined that it was fake news.
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop the House Republican health care bill, which they described as unwanted and immoral.
An analysis by Nate Silver showed that as many as 85 Republicans who voted for Trumpcare are now vulnerable to losing their seats to Democrats in 2018.
While House Republicans and President Trump were in the Rose Garden celebrating their health care win, Senate Republicans announced that they wouldn’t be voting on the House bill, but will instead write their own.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wasted no time in immediately mobilizing the opposition that will be needed to kill Trumpcare in the US Senate.
House Republicans just voted themselves out of office in 2018 by voting for a health care bill that would harm hundreds of millions of Americans that just made 2018 midterm politics very personal.
Reporters have witnessed cases of Bud Light being delivered to the Capitol under sheets as House Republicans appear to be planning a party to celebrate their vote to take health insurance away from 24 million people and make insurance more expensive for those with pre-existing conditions.
Republican Senators are making it well known that they don’t see a way for the House’s American Health Care Act to pass the Senate. As soon as the bill hits the Senate, it will be dead.
If you thought you were safe from the perils of Trumpcare because you don’t have a preexisting condition and get your insurance from your employer, take a deep breath. Trumpcare offers a “backdoor way to gut” employer plans.
It’s conceivable that Trump is hoping his boy Gorsuch will welcome the opportunity to expand corporate “religious freedom†to all corporations, whether said religious views are sincerely held, or merely more profitable. But if we go with the existing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, this element of the Executive Order will fail.
House Republicans embarrassed themselves at a whole new level, as hours before a critical vote, they misspelled the name of their own health care bill.
For their next act of malevolence after voting to take away health care from 24 million people, House Republicans are plotting to cut $500 billion from Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and unemployment benefits in 2018.
“There’s one sentence every American needs to know: Trumpcare eliminates pre-existing condition protections.”