GOP lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote
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We all knew this was going to pass.
If you thought otherwise I've got a bag for you to hold.
I’ve got a bridge to sell, when you’re done with them.
Florida real estate magnate here, a highly sought, beautiful lot that combines refreshing moisture and a healthy wildlife population has just come up
And coming soon, a population of hard-working farmhands and construction workers!
If anyone is in the human ash market, please let me know, something big is coming
I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona. From the front porch you can see the sea.
That doesn't make this acceptable.
So people are just going to die right?
We’re going to have old people cut off from their health care, rural areas will have their hospitals closed, and people are going to die.
Why is the world such a sick place?
The world? No, it's the US.
Unfortunately, the gutting of USAID and foreign aid programs is projected to kill millions in the developing world.
And don't forget that RFK Jr. wants to let the new strain of bird flu spread. The world could experience a new pandemic in a few years.
A few years feels optimistic. I’d wager on by the end of this year, at the rate everything is getting defunded.
I think people vastly underestimate the effectiveness of annual mitigation efforts by multiple agencies that have either already been cut or on the chopping block.
Many of these agencies go unnoticed because they work well, but will be immediately obvious once they’re gone.
Well, no. It's the world, but especially the US.
It'll absolutely influence the rest of the world though :(
That soft power is increasingly disappearing and is unlikely to return to even a shadow of its former self in decades.
Hopefully this means theres more space for European Union to take leadership!
Agreed but they'll need out of this wave of fascism first.
I sincerely hope the whole world turns against the US-Russian axis of fascism. But y'all will have to do some doing to get there.
I sincerely hope this is the world's last go around with fascism but I'm not so delusional as to think it the case. But I am delusional enough to think maybe someday it will be. Maybe someday we'll win.
Eh, not while it is led by the likes of neoliberal former banksters Macron and Merz... :/
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. As long as European institutions remain strong it can correct for bad temporaryleadership, as soon as you weaken these institutions the correction becomes harder and more expensive.
Yeah, I guess, the EU seems to be holding, at least for now.
These are Americans, they don't understand the difference.
Or we're aware or our country's effect on tge world, especially negative. Some of the US aid and our previous acceptance of asylum seekers in my opinion was required because the US either caused or was complicit in tge reason such aid was needed. Especially in South America, with all the coups and school of the Americas etc.
Listen to that one rep who said we're all gonna die!
We just need to accept the lord jesus into our hearts so that the hereafter will be assured! Fuck the present earth, it should go through trials like extreme weather, rampant sickness, wars etc - that's just a sign that the second coming is near!
/s
A significant number of people running the country right now truly believe this, and are willing to kill for it.
Actively trying to make it happen.
Because they can't get off unless people are suffering. And the current suffering is getting boring, so they have to raise the stakes.
Nah, it's dumber than that. They don't want suffering to lose money, they want all the suffering and misery in the world to be incredibly profitable.
Have you ever seen photos/video of the Nazi high command? Not exactly the picture of "Aryan supremacy." Some part of it has to come from a place of deep self-loathing I think.
Conservatives and religion. There's also a strong overlap between the two.
Yeah they both suck
Reports states 25,000 people in US who uses Medicaid will die every year.
aren't they also going to let ACA subsidies lapse, too? So, the total unnecessary deaths will certainly be higher...
I'm trying to be optimistic, but I'm pretty sure a very large chunk of this the maga voters, this could be a lesson in hubris
They won't learn any lesson from it. Regardless of what happens MAGAt leaders will blame gays, trans, and immigrants ... and their brain dead followers will believe them.
All this bill did was shuffle money around so the billionaires get a tax break. The Republicans also apparently fucked Musk over as he did not get his promised government handout contracts.
Yeah, they self inflicted a ton of COVID deaths to avoid breaking their kayfabe. Clearly they learned nothing.
Are you telling me that the US gov. is corrupt? I don't believe it!
I don't know if this one is considered insider trading. The bill was public record and we all knew how he was going to vote. I guess he could have known the result before the official vote, But at the same time anyone can look up party affiliations and vote history.
Nah, just curious coincides. You have seen nothing, citizen. That's an order.
But he has an R next to his name. I thought the Rs were above the law. They can't do "crimes". Crimes are for poors.
No no. Crime is if you vote blue. If you vote Red, and kill a cop or rape a kid.. you get a pardon
Never forget, these pieces of shit carved themselves out of insider trading law, and it hasn't come up once.
You misunderstood... By "caught" they just mean that we know he did it. Nothing at all will ever come of this.
Yeah, but it’s not insider trading. Everyone knows they fucked Medicare up.
Doesn't even matter anyways. It's legal for them to insider trade. Stories like this are nothing.
They aren't nothing. They are reports of what is happening. Doesn't have to be illegal to be valuable information.
Medicaid*
(this time)
Medicare too.
Yeah I guess you're right.
The whole system is broken. I wish I didn’t have to wake up everyday in it.
Wish I would have thought of having enough money to invest in stuff.
This dudes girl friend is a blonde B$&@& for a news station. She makes sure he gets the best coverage possible from the local news organization. It’s a joke how terrible northeast Pennsylvania has turned. A dude I used to work with started a hate group against gay teenagers. All financed by the gun cult church that’s there.
I hate that "gun cult church" makes perfect sense as something Americans would end up with
It’s just mentally ill poor people. Who have no future to work forwards. Being lied to by cult members from Japan and Korea. These people have the little money they have stolen from them.
Rod of Iron?
That’s a bingo!
What is this and where is the context, and why are you censoring yourself.
I’m off of Facebook. So I can’t link to her profile but at WNEP-16. They have a local news anchor. Who is dating that dude. And she gives him the best coverage possible. Kind of fucked politically.
This does make a little more sense, but I'm just trying to reconcile someone going against the grain in a very public position because they're fucking someone.
If you get more details please share
Bad title. "Caught" implies that someone will be holding him accountable.
Why is healthcare a stock!?
Everything is financialised in the US
it is more delicious to gamble on people's livelihoods and lick their tears
Healthcare isn't a stock. Healthcare is a large industry, comprised of many companies, and government entities. Individual companies in the healthcare industry may have publicly traded stock. Hope that helps.
Can't wait to hear all about how democrats are bad because of this.
Fuck this dude and his vote and all, but I didn’t need to be in congress to know that’s the GOP had the votes and motivation to fuck over Medicaid.
Insider trading much.
The corruption is endemic, unsustainable, and will lead to collapse.
It's time to come up with something better than the stock market, especially when morality and shame have left the building and have been replaced by greed and "lookin' out for number one".
Where is the SEC? Defunded. F'n Government of Putin.
Well he was late to the party.
Everyone else would have dumped it back in November.
What about nancy pelosi though?!? Her and her husband traded google stock! No one trades google, its such an obscure stock where almost no major news happens. Clearly both parties are the same.
So she is just like them.
No, not at all actually. I was joking.
Oh, but she is just like them. Greedy and power hungry without any redeeming values.
Why didn't Chuck Schumer do more to stop this?
He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.
But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.
Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.
House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.
Every democrat and one republican voted agianst this bill.
What else do you think they can do?
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
Back left wing candidates
Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
other stuff that moderators don't like
I don't understand why literally every Democrat in the Senate didn't line up to filibuster this bill. Booker's performative filibuster was toothless. This could actually have done something to change public policy.
You can't filibuster a bill using the reconciliation process.
In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don't know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it
Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44
That's the house, and only because it was a bill passed back to the house, after previous passage, to review senate revisions. Otherwise they would have been allowed to debate much more if this was the first time the house had the bill.
It's not just your imagination. Think back to the last 8 years and how much horseshit has come out that "wasn't law" but was allowed. That same thinking and action could easily be applied by the opposition, but it turns out the opposition is a wet paper towel.
I'm not smart enough to steer this, but there has to be a group trying to put together a legitimate third party. Let's talk about that. Anytime theres a fucking comical issue upfront, talk about that, and don't relent.
That's a procedural rule I wasn't aware of. Thanks for the clarification.
i said this the other day and got downvoted to hell, in addition to people telling me "well they did filibuster it"
Yes. Because it was filibustered for a day.
"They did the thing i wanted but i said they didn't and i don't understand why people don't agree with me"
Why did it only go on a day, why didnt it go longer? There are no rules stating they can't.
You already know the reason, someone else already said why. I'm not going to get drawn into a circlejerk argument with you just because you refuse reality.
That stuff that moderators don't like is about all we can do at this point. What legal recourse do we have? Voting? Lmao
How does backing canisates do anything to stop a bill?
What are "moderators" in government?
I meant more generally, so democrats can win elections and then win votes. It's something they should have been doing for the past decade. Look at how the democratic party is treating Zohran for an example of how not to do it.
You fight the battle you're in.
And agian, what are government moderators?
Oh, sorry. I meant the moderators of lemmy.world. If you say anything too spicy, your comment gets removed
Yeah, perfectly reasonable expectation... Sometimes it feels like talking to children on this site I swear.
Sharpen the guillotine
I can't disagree with this.
That was in the senate. In the house only 1 R voted no.
Appreciate that. Corrected.
He forced them to change the name so take that 😏
More than every single democrat voting against it?
Maybe next time and everytime go out and vote blue so they have even a chance of doing something to stop it.
Elections have consequences.
According to Pew, Trump would have won even if everyone had turned out to vote.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
I didn't know my faith in the American population could drop any lower. thanks for that
His printer must have run out of the "Strongly Worded Letter" paper.
What, me worry?
What the fuck is this shit? Is this a bot?
What the fuck is this