The GOP is giving rich people hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and they want to pay for it by slashing healthcare and starving poor people.

Nina-Bytes: Theft, Murder, and the GOP Reconciliation Budget

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/13/nina-bytes-theft-murder-and-the-gop-reconciliation-budget/

"Since killing your constituents so rich people can buy another yacht isn’t a popular policy decision, Trump and the GOP promised to pay for these cuts by hunting out “waste, fraud, and abuse” through DOGE cuts and the implementation of tariffs that were going to make us rich enough to end income tax; predictably neither of those schemes worked out. The most generous verifiable estimates have DOGE finding $63B worth of “waste” to cut with a difficult to confirm promise the department will save $160B by the fiscal year 2026. I understand that might sound like a lot of money to you or I, but it’s miniscule compared to the $2 trillion Elon Musk claimed DOGE would find and also isn’t enough to pay for $880B in tax cuts for rich people. Trump’s unhinged tariff policies have predictably been an even bigger joke, and Der Leader is already trying to roll back most of his trade war. These numbers simply don’t add up, so now the quest to find “waste, fraud, and abuse” to pay off the billionaire donor class means throwing poor people off Medicaid and calling that efficiency.)

(Note: I wrote 90% of this last week, then got sick and had zero time to finish it till last night; hunting source links and editing take time, and I just didn't have it till now. My bad.)

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