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- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
They stayed up late putting in edits that bans Medicaid from covering gender affirming care even for adults now. They said they were going to. It may be voted on in the house Thursday, May 22nd. Trump is pushing this massive spending bill to be passed ASAP.
The House needs to vote on it, it succeed, it go to the Senate, they vote and it and it succeed there, then the president accepts it, for it to become law.
Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate.
They will likely try to pass through the filibuster in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so as to not require 60 votes, and therefore just a simple majority. That has its own rules though.
Edit: This morning the house voted for and passed the bill. Off to the Senate it goes. This is where everything happens.
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If this fully passes then what else do trans people have left in the u.s?
Private insurance or paying for it all out-of-pocket.
So no more Viagra, correct?
Viagra is way more expensive than hrt (like 150-600x more)… therefore, Viagra will still be covered 👍
Viagra is also needed by more reps than hrt is. “You can’t be happy in your body, but I REALLY NEED my dick pills.”
You’re right. They are all a bunch of cowardly, limp-dicked, dumb-fuck, greedy, shit-golem, spineless fucking traitors to the entire country and its values, they’re even traitors to their own constituents.
They always add exceptions for cisgender affirming care.
That was my interpretation.
Make sure you do your due dilligence and keep us updated as to whether it passes or not!
It passed the house, no surprise there. Now, what happens in the Senate… Will trump become a king and defeat the United States? Will Congress, like Biden, give trump the keys?
It’s only a matter of time. Even if the Democrats somehow work up the courage to filibuster(Schumer seems dead set on okaying anything to keep the Republicans who want to maintain it on his side), Trump will inevitably demand they get rid of it because he has no intention of ever leaving office. He doesn’t give a shit about the long term, only consolidating his power and making the Republicans even more reliant on him. Such an act of shooting their own legislative power and independence in the foot is something Trump can demand at this point.
Only a few “moderate” Republicans like Susan Collins care enough about the legislature’s own power enough to stop him. However, he holds the supreme ability to use violence as the commander in chief, so they’ll break eventually. They cannot keep saying no to him forever, and he has every reason to take this ability away from them at some point. Eventually, they’ll simply be a rubber stamp congress for the policy he demands.
Let’s hope not.
