By skyforbes 
Medicaid cuts,poor white families
Trump’s Medicaid cuts could push low-wage white workers, many of whom helped elect him into the growing resistance movement.
The Trump’s scheme slashes federal spending. House Republicans’ budget proposal would cut some $2 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, in large part to fund Trump’s tax cuts; the proposed budget would require massive cuts to Medicaid.
Bishop William Barber II predicts that with time, the resistance movement against Trump’s dangerous agenda will grow to include low-wage white workers, a third of whom live in the South and were perhaps initially pro-Trump. Interview with Democracy Now. Barber is the president of Repairers of the Breach and national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, as well as the founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.
Where are the counties with the most poor, White families dependent on Medicaid? How many of them are children? Seniors? Who is their elected rep? Click on this StoryMap to find out and how to call your rep with one click.
Where Trump’s Medicaid cuts will most hurt poor WHITE families
“We shall overcome” — Al Green
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) challenged the president, shouting, “You do not have the mandate to cut Medicaid…” For his efforts, he too was censured. Immediately following the censured vote, progressive colleagues surrounded Mr. Green in the well of the House and sang, “We Shall Overcome.”
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) made a quietly powerful statement during Trump’s Congressional address by holding a small sign with the words, “This is not normal.” Soon after, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) ripped the sign from Stansbury’s hands. Sadly, few Democrats attempted to defend or highlight Stansbury’s poignant message, allowing it to get instead lost in Trump’s chaotic congressional address.
While there are some Democratic leaders, including governors and attorneys general, standing up to Trump, ultimately, it is we the people who need to fight back — the future of democracy is in our hands. — MS Magazine
The only way a king becomes a king is if you bow. And we cannot bow.
- 40% of everyone on Medicaid is white — The High Moral Stakes: Our Budget, Our Future
- Trump won with a significant portion of white, working-class voters
- His policy of gutting Medicaid may sway them to join the resistance movement
Ultimately, having these white, working-class voters in the fight against Trump would be critical to further building up the movement. The next step, according to Barber, is to call this community and others to action. “We abdicate our own moral capacity if we walk away from this moment. And we’re not going to walk away from this moment,” Barber said. “The only way a king becomes a king is if you bow. And we cannot bow. Bowing is not in our DNA. We have to stand in this moment.” — MS Magazine
TakeAway: Call your MAGA Rep: No cuts to Medicaid to give tax cuts to billionaires. Fire Elon Musk!
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