But this time, the Littlest President is spending the week meeting with his new best friends!!

Are you tuff enuf Magats?

They're welcome here in the blue areas.

Other doctors maybe.

My red state, Texas, is extremely oppressive
in every possible way when it comes to
reproductive healthcare and education.

So is Florida.

I can't imagine anyone studying medicine
in Texas, for example, going for a field in OB.

After all, medicine is science. And we know the rednecks and hillbillies hate science. Just go to church and pray the sick away, guys...

Fine, we'll take the doctors, thank you.

It keeps the argument going, and puts off implementation, at least for awhile.

"Why don't you guys fight it out instead?" is always so satisfying when it happens, the combatants beating each other bloody and senseless while the bystander ends up with the spoils.

The GOP's gilded age of a fascist dictatorship is turning into a gigantic clusterfuck and they know it.

Chip Roy can't back the bill as written because it doesn't screw poor people enough?
Jeez what a jerk.

THOSE poor people? YUP!

Sending thoughts and prayers...

I'm sure they will all fall in line.

I feel like we've played this game before.

They bicker like children, but they will rally around their hatred of the evil liberal boogyman.

That is their touchstone.

Same old shit. Same old shit republican stupidity.

Is Mikey even sure what that looks like because I'm not convinced. I don't think he could put two Lego blocks together without talking to President Psychopath first. Who probably doesn't know what a Lego looks like.

When does the mud wrasslin' commence? That's what I'm hoping for because it can't be too far away.

❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

what a Lego is he can't grasp the feature that makes them what they are . Just like tariffs are taxes on Americans .

Such a weird name for a bill, but I think Trump wants the acronym "BBB" because it is the same as Biden's Build Back Better.

Hopefully a few republicans will stand their ground on this one, but I'm not holding my breath.

So much bribery.

It's wonderfully entertaining to watch Republicans screw each other over the budget bill. But I'd trade the entertainment for a good budget bill that preserves Medicaid. If Medicaid cuts are eventually successful, lots of places will lose their local hospital, my county included. We have a small town hospital that has been acquired by a regional network, leaving us with a lab, imaging, physical therapy, emergency room, and doctors' offices -- all of which will likely vanish if Medicaid is substantially cut. Our local nursing facility is likely to go away too. Painful to contemplate. It's maddening to be at the mercy of people who view government services as inherently evil, even when they do good.

No tax cuts for the super rich and everything balances out. What is the point in giving tax cuts to people who already have more money than they could spend if they lived 200 years?

If they would have gotten into the nitty-gritty they might have found some legitimate cuts that few could argue with. Instead they use committee time for DEI culture war. GOP is a failure as a governing party.

We have to. We must. Everywhere