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Vance leans into DC crime fight in Georgia
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday took the White House's fiery crime crackdown on the road, casting another Black-led city in apocalyptic terms on a trip that was designed to tout tax cuts and other administration policies. Vance was in Peachtree City, Georgia, a purple Atlanta suburb, to sell the White House's One Big Beautiful Bill — since rebranded the Working Families Tax Cut — as a win for the working-class. Speaking from a refrigeration equipment manufacturer whose products end up in Chick-fil-A restaurants, the vice president extolled the GOP's marquee legislation for slashing taxes on tips and overtime and bolstering American manufacturing — the same messaging he's used during similar events this summer at a machine shop in Pennsylvania and a steel facility in Ohio, but now with a new name. But in the firehose of President Donald Trump's Washington, the megalaw — which Trump signed on July 4 — was no longer the story of the summer. Attention has since shifted to Trump's takeover of Washington, which the president celebrated by visiting National Guard troops and federal officers the same day his vice president was in Georgia. Vance decided to lean in. 'I want you to be able to go shopping, or go and get a nice meal with your family, without the fear that you're going to get mugged or even worse because you had the audacity to take your family out for a day in one of our great American cities,' Vance said. Trump and Vance have long described the country's urban centers — which tend to be deeply Democratic and ethnically diverse — as sites of danger, deviance and decay. Trump has referred to New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago — America's three most populous cities — as 'warzones.' And last week, when the president announced his crackdown on Washington, he put Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland, California, on notice, saying 'they're so far gone.' 'We're not going to lose our cities over this,' Trump said. 'And this will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C.' On Thursday, in Peachtree City, about 30 miles outside Atlanta, Vance painted the southern city as a place where families cower in fear of criminals and 'cross the street' to 'avoid a crazy person yelling.' 'Those are your streets, paid for with your tax dollars, and you ought to be able to use them like any other citizen of this country,' Vance said. The vice president acknowledged that the administration has focused on Washington because of Trump's unique power over it as a federal city, but said, 'We certainly hope, whether it's Atlanta or anywhere else, people are gonna look around and say, 'We don't have to live like this.'' Critics say Trump and Vance's rhetoric about urban crime has racial undertones, and the six cities he named explicitly in his news conference last week are led by Black mayors. But the White House is attempting to defend its position by slamming detractors for being white. When Vance, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top White House aide Stephen Miller, were heckled by protesters Wednesday in Union Station, the vice president said they were 'old, primarily white people' who have 'never felt danger in their entire lives.' Vance continued that tactic Thursday. Bashing the racial justice protests in 2020, which led to major anti-police sentiment in the Democratic Party, Vance said it was 'disproportionately Black Atlantans who suffer the most from high violent crime.' Asked about the historical pain associated with homeless people who were swept off Atlanta's streets in preparation for the 1996 Summer Olympics, Vance first reminded the local reporter that he had been 12 years old at the time. 'I was worried about football and fishing,' he said. But, the vice president added, 'the question betrays the question of what we're trying to do, and what is the nature of true compassion.' 'Why have we convinced ourselves that it's compassionate to allow a person who's obviously a schizophrenic or suffering from some other mental illness, why is it compassionate to let that person fester in the streets?' he said. The 'compassionate thing to do,' Vance continued, was to 'get them in treatment, not to let them sit on the streets and yell at our people while they're walking by.' The vice president has spoken before about compassion in policy. He argued in January that 'your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens,' citing an ancient Catholic concept called ordo amoris. The late Pope Francis later took issue with Vance's understanding of the concept in an unusual public rebuke of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Vance on Thursday appeared to blend his conception of compassion, passion for nativism and suggestion that people with generational roots in the country have a greater claim over its privileges of citizenship to sell a greater crime crackdown. 'This country was built by your grandparents, by your parents, by your forebearers — you ought to have the right to live a good life in this country,' he said. He added: 'The people who built Atlanta did not build it so that you would not be able to walk down the streets of Atlanta safely at night. They built it so you could enjoy it.'
San Francisco Chronicle
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- San Francisco Chronicle
Alert: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation setting November election on US House map designed to boost Democrats
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New York Post
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- New York Post
Trump caught Democrats in a trap — torn by their Medicaid lies
This week, President Donald Trump officially launched his push to remove illegal aliens from state Medicaid rolls by cross-checking them against federal databases, a move that's sure to send Democrats running to the courts yet again. But when it comes to illegal immigrants and welfare, Democrats have a serious problem — and it's not just their continuing slide in favorability. It's that they just can't make up their minds about whether or not those here illegally are receiving federal Medicaid dollars at all. Advertisement When Congress was debating Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, one of the left's oft-repeated refrains was that there was no need to ban illegal aliens from Medicaid's rolls — because giving them its benefits was already against the law. They conveniently forgot to mention the 12 states that explicitly expanded non-emergency Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants, and the other gaping loopholes being exploited nationwide. But in June, Trump made a move that forced Democrats drop the act and show their hand: His Health and Human Services Department began sharing Medicaid data from four states and Washington, DC, with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Advertisement Cue the outrage. Within days California Attorney General Rob Bonta, New York AG Letitia James and 19 other blue states filed suit in federal court to block the data-sharing — and gave up the game in the process. Democrats love to lie in the court of public opinion — but in a courtroom, you've got to tell the truth. And by suing to stop Team Trump, they practically confessed: Illegal aliens are on Medicaid, and blue states are desperate to keep it that way. Advertisement Since then HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (or CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz have doubled down, expanding their partnership with ICE to include nationwide Medicaid data. To help their effort, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Tex.) demanded that Gov. Kathy Hochul cough up the data on Medicaid-receiving illegal immigrants in the Empire State, citing her legal obligations to regularly report enrollment and eligibility data to the federal government. The Democrats' lawsuits continue their track record of fighting beyond the limits of their power to protect illegal aliens — in this case by keeping their Medicaid data 'safe' — while endangering law-abiding Americans. Their claims that no illegal aliens take advantage of Medicaid benefits also fly in the face of Medicaid's own records. Advertisement Between 2021 and 2023, taxpayers spent at least $16 billion on emergency services for illegal immigrants, CMS has reported, with federal taxpayers covering more than 70% of those costs. Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters When you add in the billions likely spent on non-emergency services in direct circumvention of federal law, the total figure of Medicaid resources going to illegal aliens is incalculable — an enormous transfer of wealth from Americans to non-citizens who shouldn't be here at all. Welfare benefits like Medicaid have been some of the strongest magnets spurring mass migration into this country and encouraging people to illegally stay. Halting those perks, as Trump and Republicans in Congress are rightly doing, will do much to turn the magnet off. Stealing from Medicaid is especially grievous because the program is intended to help America's most vulnerable, including low-income children and people with disabilities. When illegal aliens or other ineligible people take Medicaid, they not only suck up taxpayer resources, they reroute precious resources from legitimate Medicaid recipients who already have to compete for a limited pool of providers. It's downright despicable — yet Democrats in Congress and in at least 20 blue states seem more than happy to run interference to ensure that it continues. Advertisement Some Democrats are begging for their party to moderate after November's resounding defeat. Some — like New York City primary voters — are sprinting further to the left. If they want to appeal to the majority of voters in the coming midterms, though, they need to get their Medicaid stories straight. Advertisement More important, they need to get their priorities straight. Instead of robbing from taxpayers to give to law-breakers, Democrats should protect Medicaid for the Americans who truly need it. They could do that by following the lead of Republicans like Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, who just signed a law referring illegal aliens fraudulently receiving welfare to ICE so they can be deported. If Democrats can't make up their minds about illegal aliens and welfare, the American people will make up their minds about the Democrats — and keep rejecting them at the ballot box. Hayden Dublois is the Data and Analytics Director for the Foundation for Government Accountability.
