'Betrayed': Alarm sounded as GOP 'plotted behind closed doors to hurt even more families'

[justaprogressive]

Republicans pushed their massive reconciliation bill through the House Budget Committee late Sunday after striking a deal with GOP hardliners who tanked a vote on the package late last week, complaining that the measure's proposed cuts to Medicaid and other programs were not sufficiently aggressive.

The final vote on Sunday was 17-16, with the four Republicans who voted against the bill on Friday switching their votes to "present," allowing the legislation to clear the committee.

Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, one of the Republicans who switched his vote, said during Sunday's hearing that he is "excited about the changes we've made"—prompting Democratic committee members to ask, "What changes?"

"Do not be fooled," Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands said Sunday. "The 'no' votes from certain Republicans on Friday were because the cuts were not fast or deep enough. In the back room, Republicans agreed to deeper and especially faster cuts to programs."

https://www.alternet.org/republican-budget/

[hatrack]

1. Shocked, shocked . . . .

Said no one with a brain stem who's been paying even peripheral attention to the Current Situation.

[displacedvermoter]

2. "Excited" about the pain and suffering we are going to cause

to many of our own constituents. Fortunately they are stupid and misinformed enough, and so blinded by hate, that they will likely vote for us again anyway.

[Hotler]

3. This cruelty and perverse pleasure to see people hurt comes up from the repug voters themselves. nt

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[2naSalit]

6. Sadism...

They're really into that.

[edhopper]

5. Anyone on Medicaid

who voted for a Repuke has signed their own death warrant.
Mike Johnson's district has 40% on Medicaid. He won with 85% of the vote.
They are doing it to themselves.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Present is just capitulation.