Hours before the first major elections since Donald Trump’s win last November, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a stern warning for Democrats about the party’s closed-door talks to end the shutdown.
Inside a tense, three-hour meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, a fiery Sanders urged Democrats not to yield to Republicans without a real victory on health care. The Vermont independent was armed with fresh polling from a Democratic-aligned firm that showed voters would punish the party for giving up with nothing in return, according to a person familiar with his remarks.
By Wednesday morning, Sanders and his colleagues in Congress pointed to Democrats’ blow-out victories — including in Virginia, a state with thousands of furloughed federal workers — as the most powerful evidence yet they needed to keep fighting.
FUCK.THAT.CAVE.SHIT.
They keep saying that “only” 10% of Americans rely on the ACA subsidies, but that extent is GOP talking points bullshit that doesn’t explain how much every $1 spent on these programs do to generate MORE than the investment.
The overlap is insane for people who use SNAP, new business owners who buy from the state marketplaces to cover small numbers of employees, government workers who contract, local unions who have under 50 members, and so on.
Every $1 in SNAP benefits generate $1.50+ of GDP. Every $1 of ACA benefits generate anywhere from $3-$150 of the same.
This needs to be preserv, and these fuckers trying to take this money away to put it towards ICE need to go away.
Yes. But for every $1 they spend on ICE, they… generate… oh no, no produce is getting picked, construction is stagnant… (Seriously if we ran similar metrics on GoP crap we could probably say we lose ADDITIONAL $s per $…)