[image: image.png] opening thoughts: aside: the budget <www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/upshot/house-gop-budget-blueprint.html>, which kicks off the process of passing an extension of tax cuts enacted in 2017 and up to $2 trillion in spending cuts meant to partly offset them, could become law virtually impossible to accomplish without cuts to Medicaid. Democratic whip Rep Katherine Clark (D-MA): “Do you know what it cost to keep a kid on Medicaid? $10 per day. How about keeping that child fed with SNAP benefits? $6 per day. What do Republicans want to give away to the already rich? $6M— per billionaire. Think about that.” “For a billionaire that $6M is not even a rounding error. For a hungry child, It’s enough to eat every single day for 34 lifetimes. Inflicting hunger on children to give billionaires money they don’t need and won’t even notice. There is no moral code under which that is acceptable. There is no public demand for it. There is no logical reason for it other than total fealty to billionaire donors.” The American people won’t forget the GOP’s betrayal. rethink the week talkers: *Aaron Rosenthal* is the research director for North Star Policy Action *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. topics: Who are we How do we fight back will the American people realize what they are about to lose? The US is now the enemy of the west <www.ft.com/content/b46e2e24-ca71-4269-a7ca-3344e6215ae3> Martin Wolf, FT Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Lincoln Mitchell, Stephen Pimpare, Aaron Rosenthal *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
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