In short Republicans are going to screw over 23 million poor Americans because they don’t want Democrats getting political credit for helping them during an election season. And because our press is generally broken and afraid of calling a duck a duck, this is going to get dressed up as a genuine concern about wasteful spending by a party that’s long been a huge fan of no shortage of wasteful spending.
You don’t have to be a Russian plant to regurgitate propagandist rhetoric specifically designed to temper votes and make people target the people trying to help vs the people hurting you.
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