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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🧑⚕️ Robbing the poor to pay the rich. In order to pay for their personal tax cuts, House Republicans are proposing raising Medicaid premiums and co-pays for the country’s poorest earners, including individuals making as little as $15,650 a year, according to new reporting in The American Prospect. In addition to kicking as many as 8 million people off Medicaid and causing some 34,000 additional deaths, the budget proposal would impose new work requirements on recipients (61 percent of whom are already employed) in a move that critics say will force qualified beneficiaries out of Medicaid with red tape.
😡 Too bad you can’t moderate a conscience. In court this week, The Capitol Forum reported that federal antitrust prosecutors accused Meta of limiting its community standards enforcement on Instagram despite knowing that the platform was housing child pornography, illegal drug sales, and nonconsensual sexual material. Even more, they allege Meta recommended minors to “groomer” accounts known to exhibit predatory behavior towards children.
