Both Sides: Why we don't fuck with the GOP
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Worried about those seats.....
But eggs too high...Bitch your co-pay about go up 300%....
Vulnerable House Republicans warn leaders against cutting Obamacare
The group of centrists also said the party needed to be careful about deep cuts to social safety net programs.
Meredith Lee Hill
01/23/2025, 3:26pm ET
House Republicans in competitive districts warned GOP leaders Thursday: We could lose our seats if you gut Obamacare to pay for a massive border, energy and tax bill.
A group of about a dozen centrist Republicans delivered the message in a meeting with GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and other senior lawmakers, according to four Republicans familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to speak frankly. GOP members are already concerned that they’re poised to lose their trifecta and a swath of seats in the 2026 midterms — they worry GOP efforts to pare back the Affordable Care Act could pour fuel on the fire.
Centrists conveyed to leaders in the meeting that they needed to “learn the lessons” from the last GOP attempt to undercut the Affordable Care Act in 2017, according to one of the Republicans. The party went on to lose more than 40 House seats in the 2018 midterms.
Instead, they argued, Republicans needed to embrace the GOP’s role as the working class party. Leaders would counter that message by slashing programs working Americans rely on, they said. GOP lawmakers in the room included Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Young Kim (Calif.), David Valadao (Calif.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), Tom Barrett (Mich.) and Don Bacon (Neb.).
And the group asserted that Republicans need to protect more than just Obamacare. A large swath of the GOP is discussing significant spending cuts, including to social safety net programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Centrists warned their colleagues not to pursue deep cuts to those programs, which benefit low-income Americans, according to the four Republicans.
Thursday’s meeting was part of the series of listening sessions GOP leaders are holding with members as they try to outline their massive party-line reconciliation package. They’re also trying to figure out how to stave off a government shutdown that would kick in on March 15 and lift the debt ceiling.
The conversation was a broad “temperature check” among the more centrist members on what sort of spending cuts they could support, according to another Republican familiar with the meeting. Some members indicated they were more open to securing funding cuts by rescinding unspent Covid-19 funds and clawing back money from Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, including credits for electric vehicles.
Emmer’s team ticked through slides of possible cuts to “feel out problems,” according to another person familiar with the meeting. As they went down the list, it became clear there were still many points of disagreement.
“Almost everything is: ‘That’s a problem. That’s a problem,'” said one of the people who was in the room.
But eggs too high...Bitch your co-pay about go up 300%....
Vulnerable House Republicans warn leaders against cutting Obamacare
The group of centrists also said the party needed to be careful about deep cuts to social safety net programs.
Meredith Lee Hill
01/23/2025, 3:26pm ET
House Republicans in competitive districts warned GOP leaders Thursday: We could lose our seats if you gut Obamacare to pay for a massive border, energy and tax bill.
A group of about a dozen centrist Republicans delivered the message in a meeting with GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and other senior lawmakers, according to four Republicans familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to speak frankly. GOP members are already concerned that they’re poised to lose their trifecta and a swath of seats in the 2026 midterms — they worry GOP efforts to pare back the Affordable Care Act could pour fuel on the fire.
Centrists conveyed to leaders in the meeting that they needed to “learn the lessons” from the last GOP attempt to undercut the Affordable Care Act in 2017, according to one of the Republicans. The party went on to lose more than 40 House seats in the 2018 midterms.
Instead, they argued, Republicans needed to embrace the GOP’s role as the working class party. Leaders would counter that message by slashing programs working Americans rely on, they said. GOP lawmakers in the room included Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Young Kim (Calif.), David Valadao (Calif.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), Tom Barrett (Mich.) and Don Bacon (Neb.).
And the group asserted that Republicans need to protect more than just Obamacare. A large swath of the GOP is discussing significant spending cuts, including to social safety net programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Centrists warned their colleagues not to pursue deep cuts to those programs, which benefit low-income Americans, according to the four Republicans.
Thursday’s meeting was part of the series of listening sessions GOP leaders are holding with members as they try to outline their massive party-line reconciliation package. They’re also trying to figure out how to stave off a government shutdown that would kick in on March 15 and lift the debt ceiling.
The conversation was a broad “temperature check” among the more centrist members on what sort of spending cuts they could support, according to another Republican familiar with the meeting. Some members indicated they were more open to securing funding cuts by rescinding unspent Covid-19 funds and clawing back money from Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, including credits for electric vehicles.
Emmer’s team ticked through slides of possible cuts to “feel out problems,” according to another person familiar with the meeting. As they went down the list, it became clear there were still many points of disagreement.
“Almost everything is: ‘That’s a problem. That’s a problem,'” said one of the people who was in the room.
Yeah, as I said earlier, these Republicans are getting a ton of phone calls right now and this shit is beginning to affect Republican voters immediately the Republicans are going to have to put some bumpers around Trump right now. Because in two years they going to get wiped the fuck off in the Congress. I’m not saying the Republicans are going to vote for Democrats, but the Republicans may sit home.
Because he is getting ready to ramp it up even further.
@DC_Dude @Camille @easy_b @woodchuck @Day_Carver
I know that tweet sounds simple but I think it's actually very astute
The democrats seem to have learned nothing from the recent defeat
The need to make these things SIMPLE to understand
Indisputable clear accessible
They should be hammering all things home starting now. In an early digestible way
Well, Dems could say both at the same time but to different audiences
100% agree....Keep it simple and use the same tactics we use in the healthcare industry with healthcare literacy. Everything should be written and communicated at the 6th grade level.
Fine whatever just be more accessible
There is a sense of high handedness that the democrats seem to convey and we saw the result.
Being RIGHT don't mean nothing if no one understands what you saying.
The democrats should have been organizing for this for months.
So many people felt unseen and voted for t.rump out of anger.
But more just didn't vote at all. AT ALL.
Dems need to humble themselves and address THOSE people BEFORE mid terms. Mobilize them now to call and write their elected officials.
They need to UNDERSTAND these issues.
We need to stop calling them names and ignoring their voice and listen. And show them in simple terms the bullsh*t we in now.
The last election is over. Start fresh. Listen to them and explain what is happening and how it immediately effects them and their families
Democrats gotta make sure being a Nazi is not considered cool.
20 or 30 Republicans is not even going to vote for that in the house so it’s dead on arrival
Well if they stop running women for president maybe they would get somewhere…
That doesn’t have anything to do with it.
That’s the only reason why he won period. He’s only beating women. It has everything to do with it. If Kamala was a white male that white male would have beaten him easily; let’s be real and be honest. This country is full of misogyny and racism