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Republicans’ latest spending bill shows how billionaires don’t care
Slayton Thompson
Dec. 26, 2024 6:00 am, Updated: Dec. 27, 2024 12:07 pm
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Lowering prescription drugs, Community Health Centers that provide health care, cancer treatment for children — these are the things that Republicans have taken out of the latest spending bill.
A Republican Party campaign, on lowering the prices, and supporting the families, now abandoned these goals because of a billionaire tweet?
My neighbor lives off Social Security at 80 years old. Do you think Donald Trump and his billionaire friend cares about the elderly?
Struggling Americans will suffer because of their ignorance playing politics just to blame President Biden, and while this is going on, seniors will lose their homes.
I can’t imagine why Republicans would want to be on the record for causing this catastrophe.
Now, Donald Trump says he doesn’t even know if he can lower prices and his puppeteers speaker Johnson, and Elon Musk, are playing with the elderly and children and the disenfranchised.
Thanks a lot, Ashley Grassley.
Slayton Thompson
Cedar Rapids
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