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How MAGA stopped 9/11 health care funding
The latest congressional fiasco and its implications on 9/11 health care funding is both a preview and a punctuation of the divisive MAGA-driven politics that defined DEspositos time in Washington and will continue to plague New Yorks battleground Republicans.
Somehow, it led DEsposito to end up voting for a congressional spending plan that removed the 9/11 health care plan he had championed and reached across the aisle for.
On Wednesday, DEsposito, was celebrating how the measure was poised to become law as part of an already-negotiated congressional spending plan.
But on Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson nixed the entire thing, placating concerns from President-elect Donald Trump and sudden congressional powerbroker Elon Musk about government waste and the debt ceiling.
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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook-pm/2024/12/20/anthony-desposito-911-victims-congress-bill-first-responders-00195644
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-firefighter-unions-blast-house-210700244.html
The incoming politicians and those returning were given a mandate to make America great again, he said. We know that you cannot make America great again if you leave behind those that are sick and those that are dying that answered the call on 9/11.
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Pototan
(2,119 posts)You made your bed, now it's time to lie down on it.
It is discouraging when the people who you fight for, and support turn their backs on your ability to continue to advocate for them.
I would never work against firefighters in New York, or anywhere else. But my support will have to be won back. So, I've decided, for this cycle, to sit back and watch if a large segment of Americans who voted for Trump and then are getting fucked.
Pass the popcorn.
JI7
(90,877 posts)I expect our party and us to vote the correct way. But not going to take the time to protest and get outraged as they voted for these things .
Pototan
(2,119 posts)BoRaGard
(3,157 posts)some folks never learn
Crowman2009
(2,844 posts)They can't use firefighters still living as props in their speeches.
multigraincracker
(34,304 posts)GoCubsGo
(33,158 posts)That'll teach him to "both sides" things.
Boomerproud
(8,473 posts)nt
Cha
(305,853 posts)Fascist Magats.
hatrack
(61,192 posts)Or were you too busy doing victory dances about the falling price of eggs?
Dumbasses.
JI7
(90,877 posts)they voted on other things. So obviously things like him being a racist, misogynist, were more important reasons to vote for him so they are getting what they voted for.
Cha
(305,853 posts)believe there's so Many Damn Dumb Gullible Suckers. !
"Government Waste" on Human Lives.. Firefighters. We Fought for them ... they didn't Fight for themselves.
FUCK Mump
Tickle
(3,153 posts)President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to declare a national emergency to address illegal immigration upon taking office on January 20, 2025. This declaration would enable the use of military assets to conduct mass deportations of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States.
What comes after a national emergency is.... Martial law. We will never get rid of trump