AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I'm not sure what it's going to take for mainstream media to admit the GOP reconciliation budget bill is absolutely a plot to murder labor class Americans for the benefit of the wealthiest people in our society, but the evidence that this is precisely what's going on here continues to mount. A breaking Congressional Budget Office estimate released last night shows that precisely because the Republican Party's class war murder and theft bill does *not* reduce the deficit, but will in fact increase it, passing this budget reconciliation bill will automatically trigger sequestration under the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act; which is a fancy way of saying it will result in over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. This is of course despite President Donald Trump's promise that the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" wouldn't touch funding for either Medicaid or Medicare.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-medicare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-</span><span class="invisible">medicare</span></a></p><p>'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts</p><p>"This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades," said Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear: The deficit will explode so badly it will trigger automatic cuts, including over half a trillion dollars from Medicare."</p><p>"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare," Boyle added. "It's reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to the middle class."</p><p>Boyle highlighted the CBO's findings during his testimony at the House Rules Committee hearing, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.</p><p>"This is really the breaking news," Boyle said. "Over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare."</p><p>"Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO or Pay-As-You-Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion," Boyle continued. "The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."</p><p>For those of you who are unaware, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that typically provides coverage for Americans 65 and over; it's at least partially funded by payroll taxes and in a country that does almost nothing to help seniors who are no longer in the workforce, it's a program that saves lives every single day. The GOP has been trying to eliminate or privatize this program for decades, and as such I have a hard time believing these proposed cuts, which again add up to like $550B over the course of ten years, are in any way accidental even if they are automatic. These GOP nazis know what they're doing, and the rest of their budget is devoted to the same goal: killing poor and marginalized people so the wealthiest individuals in our society can pile up more money they won't live long enough to spend. Peter Thiel needs more cheddar to mainstream dystopian fascist propaganda, so Grandma is going in the woodchipper; that's literally the plan here, and it is both entirely predictable and intentional.</p><p>Which of course brings up the question of why American corporate media isn't just up and telling you that the Republicans want to kill poor people and seniors to pay for Elon Musk's quest to birth himself a child army by bribing social media influencers to accept his sperm? Could it be because the people who own those media outlets stand to make a pretty penny from the GOP's reconciliation budget bill and they hate poor people almost as much as rich Republican nazis do? 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