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🚨🚨🚨 The GOP #BigUglyBill's "Dance, Spider, Dance!" mandate set to kick cancer & HIV patients off Medicaid:

https://acasignups.net/26/06/04/big-ugly-bills-dance-spider-dance-mandate-set-kick-cancer-hiv-patients-medicaid

Big Ugly Bill's "Dance, Spider, Dance!" mandate set to kick cancer & HIV patients off Medicaid

As I and many others have been warning about for the past year or so, the upcoming so-called "work requirements" (aka "paperwork hell" requirements) of last year's Big Ugly Bill are ramping up in January...and in fact have already begun in Nebraska. A few days ago the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published their "final rule" with the reporting and exemption regulations which every state which has expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act will be required to follow...and, as expected, it's likely to be a disaster. Via Selena Simmons-Duffin of NPR: Advocates for people with serious illnesses, like cancer and HIV, say the strict Medicaid work rules that the Trump administration released this week are likely to put ongoing treatments in jeopardy. ...States must "make the changes, test the changes to make sure they're not going to break the system, and then go live," McIntyre says. The nearly 400-page interim final rule released Monday makes that process even harder. For months, federal officials have been meeting with states informally and giving them guidance, and states understood that people with conditions where continuous health insurance coverage was really important would be exempt.

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DoomsdaysCW 6d ago

Wave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for #AmericanSchools

Thanks to Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” the ’26–’27 school year will look wildly different.

By Adam Laats, June 01, 2026

"As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix."

#TrumpSucks #USPol #BigUglyBill #DumbingUsDown #USEducation #PublicSchools

Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?

Slate

DoomsdaysCW May 29

#ICYMI (I know I did)... Apparently, part of #Trump's #BigUglyBill involved withholding future student #FinancialAid if they withdraw from a class. Wow...!

"Beginning in Summer 2026, changes to #FederalStudentAid under the One #BigBeautifulBill Act will significantly affect how federal direct loans are adjusted when students withdraw from courses or reduce enrollment. Several of you have met with me via zoom to learn more about these changes, and I am grateful for the questions and conversation.

What’s changing in brief:

- Financial aid for loan borrowers may now be recalculated based on a student’s enrollment, even in cases where students continue to pay for all of their credits.

Students who withdraw from courses may:

- Lose eligibility for a portion of their aid in a future semester and/or,

- Owe a balance back to the university

Please contact the Office of Financial Aid with questions or refer students directly for individualized guidance.

Thank you for your continued support of our students during this transition."

#USPol #TrumpSucks #DumbingUsDown #GuttingHigherEd #StudentLoans

DoomsdaysCW May 13

"He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"

- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986

The families going hungry because of #Trump’s #FoodStamp cuts

Under President Donald Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

by Shannon Pettipiece, May 11, 2026

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-food-stamp-cuts-children-arizona-hungry-big-beautiful-bill-rcna343922

#USPol #TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA
#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism
#Autocracy #Greed #BigUglyBill #BigUglyPresident

Children in Arizona are going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts

Under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

NBC News

wdhughes.bsky.social May 5

@garyseconomics.bsky.social @[email protected] @[email protected] is it possible that the #IranWar is covering for the massive damage to the #economy from #Trump fucking everything up? I'm not suggesting it was the plan, but is it the outcome? #tariffs & the #BigUglyBill etc etc

Charles Gaba Apr 27

Hey, remember when I warned that the #BigUglyBill's Medicaid cuts were gonna hit well BEFORE the midterms?

Well, guess what...

https://acasignups.net/26/04/27/nebraska-hey-remember-when-i-warned-big-ugly-bills-medicaid-cuts-were-gonna-hit-well

Nebraska: Hey, remember when I warned that the Big Ugly Bill's Medicaid cuts were gonna hit well BEFORE the midterms? Well, guess what...

As of June 2025, around 70,000 Nebraska residents were enrolled in Medicaid via the ACA's expansion of the program. Last summer, after Congressional Republicans passed their Big Ugly Bill, I warned people against assuming that the gutting of Medicaid wouldn't hit until after the 2026 midterms: Over at The New Republic, Greg Sargent has taken this thinking one step further, noting that by delaying so much of the ugliness of the new law until 2027 or beyond... Republicans know how unpopular all this will be. So they’ve structured the bill so the tax cuts land immediately, while many of the Medicaid cuts get going in 2027 and 2028. That’s meant to spare them in the midterms. But there’s a wrinkle here worth appreciating. Those policies will start hitting right when JD Vance’s bid to succeed Trump is getting underway. For Vance—perhaps the most prominent evangelist for Trumpism’s supposed promise for the working class—to have to defend all of that carnage while running for president could yet prove a form of poetic justice. Again, this is a fair statement, as far as it goes. However, while I'm not an expert on any of the non-healthcare provisions, when it comes to the sections related to healthcare policy, a whole lot of the ugly will actually hit well before the midterms.

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Voteinorout 🇺🇸Apr 19

Last year’s Big Ugly Bill made drastic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs. Earlier this month, as he was releasing his budget, the President said, “We’re fighting wars, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of those things.” What happened to putting Americans first? Follow @RepBonnie for more. #RepBonnie #BigUglyBill #Medicaid

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voteinorout on Instagram: "Last year’s Big Ugly Bill made drastic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs. Earlier this month, as he was releasing his budget, the President said, “We’re fighting wars, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of those things.” What happened to putting Americans first? Follow @repbonnie for more. #RepBonnie #BigUglyBill #Medicaid Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson"

39 likes, 0 comments - voteinorout on April 17, 2026: "Last year’s Big Ugly Bill made drastic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs. Earlier this month, as he was releasing his budget, the President said, “We’re fighting wars, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of those things.” What happened to putting Americans first? Follow @repbonnie for more. #RepBonnie #BigUglyBill #Medicaid Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

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MJ Muse Apr 15

At least 88 big corporations paid $0 in income tax last year — thanks to Republicans The One Big Ugly Bill Act will give the wealthiest 1% of Americans $117 billion in tax cuts this year, the bottom 95% will pay more. These findings show systemic deficiencies in the corporate tax code. Without reform, corporations will continue to pay much less than their fair share.
https://www.alternet.org/big-beautiful-bill-taxes/. #TrumpMafiaStateCrimes #CorporateGreed #BigUglyBill

At least 88 big corporations paid $0 in income tax last year — thanks to Republicans

Dozens of America’s most profitable corporations avoided paying any federal income taxes in 2025, according to an analysis out on Tuesday from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.The 88 companies—which include Tesla, Southwest Airlines, Live Nation, Palantir, Citigroup, and many others lis...

Alternet.org

Helvete miss MySpace Apr 14

Dementia Donald T**** aspirating on a Big Mac.

#DementiaDon #DementiaDonny #DementiaDonald #DementiaDonOLD #PremierTrump #PremierDonaldTrump #BoycottDoorDash #BigUglyBill #BoycottMcDonalds #ElbowsUp #Never51 #11thProvince #FuckThe2028PresidentialElection #FuckThe2026MidTermElection #FAFO #NoMoreUSAPresidents #WaitingMeansDeath

DoomsdaysCW Apr 10

Propublica: “The Alarm Bell”: #Arizona’s Drop in #SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

by Nicole Santa Cruz
April 8, 2026

"More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

"The drop represents nearly 47% of the state’s participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.

"On Wednesday, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released data through February showing that the reduction in Arizona has far outstripped other states. After Arizona, the largest loss of participants was in Florida, where less than 16% of recipients lost benefits since July, according to the center’s analysis.

"Arizona officials attribute the plunging caseload to swift implementation of policy changes forced by the bill, including new work requirements.

"But interviews suggest that Arizona’s efforts to comply, combined with cuts to the agency that runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have contributed to the decline — making it more difficult to apply and causing people who are eligible to be denied. The state’s drop has exceeded previous projections.

" 'Arizona is just the alarm bell,' said Joseph Palomino, executive director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, a nonpartisan advocacy organization. “This is likely going to happen in every state.' "

Read more:
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-snap-benefits-trump-legislation

#USPol #HungerGames #TheHungerGamesAreNow #SNAPCuts #BigUglyBill #BigUglyPresident #WorkCamps #Starvation #Authoritarianism

“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation

ProPublica