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It's Robert Reich.
Never have I seen a president or Congress do so much harm to so many people in so little time.
Trump and his MAGA stooges in Congress have:
- Stripped health care from 10 million people;
- Cut food stamp benefits for 40 million, half of them children;
- Slashed $8 billion from foreign aid programs;
- Defunded public radio and TV;
- Handed $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to Trump and his billionaire friends.
It's our job to ho…

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"It’s the same playbook Trump has used throughout his thugocracy: pressuring the Federal Reserve, gutting the EPA, extorting universities, muzzling the CDC and NIH, and suing NBC, CBS, and the Wall Street Journal. "

Robert Reich here.
I've been directly involved in government shutdowns, including when I was secretary of labor.
But this shutdown is radically different.
Republicans want Democrats to rubber-stamp the $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in Donald Trump's Big Ugly Bill,
-- which will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket and strip health care from 15 million Americans.
Not one Democrat voted for the bill, and they shouldn't…

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