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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Republican Town Hall Erupts After Damning Confession on Budget Bill
Nebraska Representative Mike Flood was booed relentlessly at his own town hall Tuesday as he admitted to a roomful of constituents that he had simply not read some parts of Trump's big, beautiful budget bill. 'Can you please tell us why you voted to approve a budget bill that includes section 703-02, which effectively prohibits federal courts from enforcing contempt orders … which would then allow current and future administrations to ignore those contempt orders by removing the enforcement capabilities?' one attendee asked Flood. The question is in reference to a deeply biased provision that the GOP slipped in the budget bill to protect President Trump from being held accountable by court orders. Additionally, anyone seeking to file an injunction or restraining order—two things the courts have already levied against the Trump administration numerous times—would be forced to put up a financial bond. 'I do not agree with that section that was added to that bill,' Flood responded, and was booed immediately. 'You voted for all of it!' someone shouted. 'I will tell you this. I believe in the rule of law.… I do believe that the federal district courts, when issuing an injunction, it should have legal effect. In fact I relied upon that when the Biden administration was in place,' Flood responded. Then he confessed: 'This provision was unknown to me when I voted for the bill. I am not gonna hide the truth.… We must allow our federal courts to operate and issue injunctions.' The crowd roared with hostility and disbelief toward their congressman as he admitted that he skipped over reading the entire bill before he voted for it. Flood was also hit with questions on Medicaid. Trump previously claimed that the party wouldn't touch it, before it was slashed in the budget bill. 'I was talking to the Nebraska Hospital Association almost every single day … to find out how this would affect Medicaid patients in Nebraska,' Flood continued. 'I know that the bill is not perfect, but I believe that in crafting this bill, even a president that maybe most of you disagree with, strictly said … 'Do not cut Medicaid.'' More jeers erupted. 'That doesn't mean we don't address waste, fraud, and abuse.' Trump's budget bill is expected to leave 13.7 million people without health insurance by 2034, while giving tax cuts to the wealthiest. Flood went on to defend his support of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, while chants of 'You lie!' rained down on him. This is yet another installment in the GOP's string of nightmare town halls, as its constituents grow more and more frustrated with the actions of the man—and the party—that they voted for.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
美眾議院議長批電玩是虛度光陰：大家應出門工作而不是整天玩遊戲
時至今日，玩遊戲的玩家們是不是玩物喪志仍被許多人拿出來討論，而屬於共和黨的美國眾議院議長 Mike Johnson 最近在國會中積極地討論美國的醫療補助法案，要求恢復工作要求時，玩遊戲似乎被他視為「不務正業」的行為，表示，「我們要讓年輕人重拾工作熱情，而不是整天玩遊戲。」，並且他先前也指控，在美國「健全的男性靠著玩遊戲偷取國家的福利！」 綜合外媒報導，最近美國眾議院議長 Mike Johnson 正在美國國會中推動恢復美國醫療補助計畫中的工作要求，他認為這項舉措可以減少民眾濫用這個服務制度的狀況，並且也點出，就是要特別針對「具備勞動能力的適齡男性。」，並且他也批評，有部分受益人因為仰賴醫療保障而逃避責任，將時間耗費在玩遊戲等沒有生產力的活動上，並且受訪表示，「要讓年輕人重拾工作尊嚴，讓大家出門工作，而不是整天玩遊戲。」 Mike Johnson on Medicaid: "What we've talked about is returning work requirements ... you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day. We have a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid." — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 10, 2025 Mike Johnson 也認為，年輕人在家中玩遊戲是一種虛度光陰的行為，而且也擠壓了弱勢群體的福利空間，共和黨目前在推動的削減美國醫療補助計畫就是為了讓年輕人重返職場。不過，事實上根據美國健康政策研究機構的資料，在美國醫療補助計畫 65 歲以下的受益人中，其中 64% 都有全職或者兼職工作，因此從數據上來看或許並不像 Mike Johnson 的說法，大家都在家裡玩遊戲而不去工作。 緊貼最新科技資訊、網購優惠，追隨 Yahoo Tech 各大社交平台！ 🎉📱 Tech Facebook： 🎉📱 Tech Instagram： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 社群： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 頻道： 🎉📱 Tech Telegram 頻道：
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bill to remove excise tax on soft drinks, impact Medicaid funding, fails in house
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Removing the excise tax on soft drinks in Arkansas was debated at the state capitol Monday. Rep. David Ray (R-Maumelle) is leading the legislation and said the excise tax is burdening small businesses and is essentially double taxation because of sales tax. 'I've talked to some fast-food restaurant owners that tell me they pay over $1,000 a month in soda tax, just in the soda tax, so what you're doing is you're allowing those businesses to hire more workers, pay overtime to their employees,' Ray said. Multi-million funding allocation bill for Franklin County prison fails in Arkansas legislature for fourth time The revenue is one of the avenues for funding the Medicaid trust fund, which provides about $40 million a year. Peter Gess with Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families said that with Medicaid funding uncertainty at the federal level, it is now a bad time to remove this tax.'While it is true that any sort of tax on a food product or soda is regressive, meaning that it hurts people with a low income, more than it does people that have more money, the real problem with repealing this is that it's getting rid of a dedicated source to the Medicaid program trust fund,' Gess said. The bill outlines a phase-out of the tax over at least 5 years.'The only way it would be phased out is if certain revenue triggers are met on the sales tax side of the soft drink, so there's a mechanism in there to ensure that the state maintains ample funding for Medicaid and all of the important programs that we fund out of our general revenue,' Ray said. Under the bill, the sales tax would go to general revenue funding, and Gess believes it's not clearly allocated to Medicaid.'When budgets are tight, when we face a lot of uncertainty with what's going to happen with the federal budget going forward, this idea of losing this 2% without a dedicated replacement is quite frankly scary,' Gess said. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs 49 bills into law Ray said Arkansas is the only state with a soft drink tax, and 49 of the 50 states fund Medicaid without an excise tax on soft drinks. 'The Medicaid trust fund has a balance of over $500 million, there's over half a billion dollars in that fund, and there are five other revenue sources that go into it. This is just one revenue source, and so I think the Medicaid trust fund is going to be just fine without this tax,' Ray said. The bill failed in the House on Monday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
