The idea that it is too expensive to take care of people, to ensure basic needs like food, shelter, and healthcare are available to everyone, and to bring prosperity to all, is just another lie. We can do it, and easily.

America finds billions to bail out farmers who voted for the tariffs that bankrupted their farms and banks that make risky investments, but when it comes to providing food for families in need, healthcare, or funding for Social Security, amazingly, the money can never be found.

If you are in the 11th month of an administration that promised to fix everything on day one, and you're still blaming the last administration for every new problem that arises, you are a disingenuous, pathetic fool.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and Venezuela is not smuggling fentanyl to the United States. These are the lies America is told to stoke fear and generate support for wars over the control of oil.

US jobs: 🔴October: ~-50,000 (official numbers not released) 🔴September: +119,000 🔴August: -4,000 🔴July: +72,000 🔴June: -13,000 Average jobs created per month in 2024: 186,000 The unemployment rate rose again to 4.4% (the highest since October 2021), and that doesn't include October's job losses.

Does America have the appetite for another war started on false pretenses? www.theprogressivecapitalist.com/p/murder-doe...

The Trump administration canceled the October job report. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the US likely lost around 50,000 jobs last month, pushing the total layoffs for the year to 1.1 million.

You were told that your problems were caused by immigrants. The border is sealed up. A goon squad is terrorizing neighborhoods. Job sites are being raided. Even courthouses and preschools can't escape the chaos. Your life didn't get better.

The Epstein files are such a hoax that the Trump administration is working harder on keeping the files secret than they are on solving the economy, jobs, national debt, healthcare, education, trade agreements, inflation, unemployment, or the cost of housing.

If you want to save America hundreds of billions of dollars every year on healthcare, you enact universal healthcare. If you want to make middle-class Americans suffer, you get rid of the ACA premium subsidies.

153,000 people were laid off in October, bringing the total for the year to 1.1 million. The worst year since 2020, the last time Trump was president. Unemployment has risen to 4.4%, estimated by the Chicago FED. Republicans control the entire federal government, and this is the result.

The best thing Republicans can hope for is that the Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs. Ending the tariffs will give the economy a chance to improve before the midterms. Republicans will then pretend they improved the economy, despite their efforts to destroy it.

The guy who is grifting billions from crypto schemes and throwing lavish Great Gatsby parties stands at a podium and tells the nation struggling with high prices, few job opportunities, and a shutdown government how well they have it. It doesn't get more out of touch than that.

Instead of taking some time for introspection over why Republicans are losing elections, why the president's approval rating is abysmal, and why the American people are looking for change, the GOP resorts to the one thing it knows best: fearmongering.

Speaker Johnson: Democrats are the ones preventing SNAP benefits from being funded. Trump: I WILL VIOLATE COURT ORDERS AND REFUSE TO DISTRIBUTE SNAP BENEFITS UNTIL DEMOCRATS BOW DOWN TO ME Speaker Johnson, when asked tomorrow: I don't know anything about that. I haven't seen it.

As Republican politicians find themselves losing election after election, they'll invent conspiracies and resort to fearmongering to distract from the uncomfortable truth that they allowed this to happen by handing their party over to a hateful, lying conman who cares only about himself.

For Republicans to refuse to have the House in session to work on a solution, to fail the same vote in the Senate over and over without a single negotiation, for the President to play golf and hold extravagant parties as food aid runs out for hungry children, is a massive failure of leadership.

Some of the wealthiest companies in the world are receiving corporate welfare because they are not required to pay a proper wage.

Massive tax cuts for billionaires? Trump eagerly signed on. $1 trillion military budget? Trump demanded it. Bailing out another country's economy to save wealthy investors? Trump never hesitated. Paying federal food benefits to hungry families? Trump refused. Courts had to order him to do it.

The two longest government shutdowns in history have happened under Trump. There were none under Biden. The two years with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio since WWII happened under Trump. The two years with the most manufacturing job losses in the past 15 years happened under Trump. 🧵

Republicans say there is no way Trump could fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown. The same Republicans say :

What has a higher favorability rating among Americans compared to Trump? -Canada -Mexico -Ukraine -Immigrants -Green Energy -Electric vehicles -ACA subsidies -The ACA overall -AOC -Bernie Sanders -Kamala Harris -Joe Biden -Hillary Clinton -Barack Obama To name just a few.

America spends nearly twice as much per person on healthcare. That spending gets us fewer doctor visits, shorter life expectancies, higher maternal and infant mortality rates, higher rates of death from preventable causes, and, contrary to the misinformation, longer wait times for care as well.

18% of the US GDP, or $4.9 trillion, is spent on healthcare. These nations have some of the best healthcare on the planet: Australia - 10% of GDP Japan - 11% Netherlands - 10% UK - 11% Germany - 12.5% South Korea - 10% How do they provide better healthcare at a lower cost? Universal Healthcare.

The US economy has barely managed to chug along in 2025, but lying beneath the surface is a single thread holding it all together. If that string snaps, the economy goes down with it. www.pragmatichumanist.com/p/the-fragil...

The reason Republicans hate the ACA is simple: people like it. Enrollment in the ACA has grown from 8 million in 2014, when the ACA went into effect, to over 25 million today. The most significant growth was in states won by Trump. 🧵

I love America. That is why I enlisted to serve in the Navy after high school. It is why I speak out today to remind our government that we are a nation of the people, by the people, for the people.

Trump commuted George Santos's prison sentence, and acts like Santos's crime was lying a little. George Santos stole the identities of donors to make fraudulent credit card charges. Trump is sending a message to all Republicans that as long as you're loyal to him, you can break the law.

-Average cost per year to extend ACA subsidies: $35 billion -Cuts to SNAP next year: $9 billion -Free school lunches for all: $23 billion -Cost to house all the homeless: $14 billion Total: $81 billion -Republicans' tax cuts to the top 1% in 2026 alone: $117 billion

$40 billion bailout for Argentina $113 billion annual increase to the defense budget $117 billion in tax cuts for the top 1% in 2026 alone $75 billion increase in funding for ICE Republicans say we don't have money for healthcare, but those costs would cover extending the ACA subsidies for a decade

Republicans are putting more effort into trying to discredit a peaceful protest than they are into solving the healthcare crisis or reopening the government. Complete ineptitude combined with a disdain for the struggles of the American people.

Facts about US healthcare:🧵 -Democrats enacted the Affordable Care Act without any help from Republicans so that people who previously couldn't afford healthcare, primarily Republican voters, now could.

Trump voters are watching the wealthiest Americans become the richest they’ve ever been, while houses remain unaffordable, healthcare costs rise, and outstanding credit card debt hits a record high of $1.2 trillion, the result of hard-working Americans desperately struggling to stay afloat.

Republicans are threatening to: -Mass fire federal employees -Withhold legally required back pay -Cancel federal funding for energy products while electricity costs are soaring All to punish the American people for the embarrassment of their government shutdown.

You've got to love the Republicans, who are like: "I was so deeply involved in a plot to overturn a free and fair presidential election that the FBI had just cause to investigate me. Can you believe it?!"

Another day that the government is shut down, and the House is on recess, because Republicans refuse to deal with the issue of unaffordable healthcare and premiums that will more than double for over 20 million Americans.

Healthcare shouldn't be a political game. www.pragmatichumanist.com/p/healthcare...

How callous have we become, with such disdain for other human beings, that the argument has become not only if hospitals should be reimbursed after saving someone's life, but whether that life should be saved at all?

So far, Republicans: -Lied that Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants free healthcare. -Proven wrong, they tried to focus on emergency care, which covers the uninsured, so that people don't bleed out or give birth in an alley. Emergency care accounts for just 0.4% of Medicaid spending.

When the government shuts down tonight, half of all government shutdowns in the last 30 years will have happened while Trump was president. Republicans in Congress would rather make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans than make Trump angry by working with Democrats.