House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly embracing drastic measures to avoid a government shutdown, including a massive 70 percent cut to a program that provides assistance to lower income families who have trouble affording heat during the winter.
The Washington Post reports that McCarthy has decided to push through a number of cuts demanded by far-right members of his caucus with the hopes of getting enough votes to avoid a shutdown of the House over a spending bill – despite the fact that the proposed cuts would likely be doomed in the United States Senate.
In addition to the aforementioned cuts to home heating, the Post reports that the plan being put forth by Republicans also calls "for a roughly 80 percent cut to funding for schools that serve high concentrations of students in poverty," and would also "cut by at least half a fruit and vegetable benefit for poor pregnant mothers, which serves roughly 5 million people." There would also be "multibillion cuts to the National Institutes of Health, Head Start, and preschool grants."
If that doesn't work, starve 'em! Either way, fuck 'em! Poor people ain't worth shit!
And because she's in the news: a reminder that Cassidy Hutchinson is 26 years old, and has more poise and maturity than any member of Congress or public figure currently berating her. You may disagree with her politics or her public statements, but I would be proud to have her as a daughter (and I like to think, with justification, my 32 year old daughter would show as much poise and steel were she similarly situated).
This afternoon [the day of her testimony before the House J6 committee] a 26-year-old former assistant showed more courage and integrity than an entire administration full of grown-ass adults who were purportedly working in service to the American people, but had long ago decided to serve only their ambition and grievance.
Cassidy Hutchinson did so at risk to her safety. Her social circle. Her career.
And she overcame all of the self-serving rationalizations that prevented the powerful, whose manhoods she held in her palm, from stepping to the plate.
She shames every Republican who still thinks they have to kiss Trump's ring finger.
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