By Michael Woyton
One news item after another continues to come out that anyone with a bit of sense would arrive at the same conclusion:
President Donald J. Felon is not working for the average American. Neither is anyone else in his administration.
He singlehandedly decided that a portion of the White House building should be completely demolished and replaced with an enormous dancehall — the Epstein Ballroom, if you will.
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He listened to gravel-mouthed Bobbie “Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. about Tylenol causing autism — it doesn’t — and women all over the country are told just to tough it out if they have a fever or headache during pregnancy.
He wants and has allowed the Department of Education to be gutted.
He allowed his once-co-president Elon Musk to pilfer the financial data, including Social Security numbers, of taxpayers.
He has obliterated diversity measures throughout the federal government.
He has ordered GOPmaga-run states to redistrict mid-decade with the goal of giving him a larger Republican majority in Congress.
He has targeted colleges and universities, threatening Justice Department and IRS investigations.
He has threatened allies around the world with huge tariffs on imports, with the costs of those tariffs coming for the most part from American consumers and manufacturers.
He rolled back an executive order that lowered prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
He has allowed ICE thugs and Kristi “Dogkiller” Noem to run rampant, terrifying citizens and immigrants alike.
He signed a horrific budget bill that gave massive tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and will drastically cut Medicaid and food assistance.
And the list goes on and on and on.
Now comes the news that the grifter-in-chief’s administration is moving to undercut efforts on the state level to eliminate medical debt from American’s credit reports, according to Common Dreams.
Earlier this year, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule from the Biden era that “prohibited the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports” was vacated by a Trump-appointed Texas federal judge.
About 14 million people in the United States owe more that $1,000 in medical debt, with 20 percent of Americans having that debt on their credit reports, Common Dreams reported.
Fifteen states, including California, Colorado and New York, have moved to curb the reporting of medical debt, but “industry groups,” including the likes of debt reporting companies Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, want to block those state laws.
Keep in mind that millions of people are facing huge increases in healthcare premiums because the tax credits for the Affordable Care Act are expiring at the end of this year — unless Congress does something about it, which seems unlikely since House Speaker Mike Johnson has effectively closed up shop (ahem, Epstein files).
“Writing for MSNBC over the weekend, Century Foundation president Julie Margetta Morgan warned that ‘the spike in premiums won’t just blow an even bigger hold in families’ future budgets’,” Common Dreams wrote.
“It will pour gasoline on the already raging fire of medical debt in this country, and government leaders at all levels are not prepared for it,” Morgan said.
Again, what it is going to take for people to realize that this president has never and will never be a leader for all Americans — only those who can line his pocket or stroke his ego?
Everyone else — you’re on your own.
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