Welcome to America’s hottest new reality game: Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition. The rules are simple: Step 1: Propose massive cuts to Medicaid. Step 2: Funnel the savings into tax breaks for billionaires. Step 3: Watch hospitals collapse, ERs overflow, and working families get crushed. Step 4: Don’t even bother to hide the greed. This … Read more
This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
Former Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva wants to continue working on the progressive legacy of her late father, Representative Raul Grijalva, as his successor in Congress, representing the people of Arizona’s Seventh Congressional District. A person with twenty years of public service in her own right as a school board member for Tucson Unified and … Read more
Former State Legislator Daniel Hernandez has announced his second run for a seat in the House of Representatives. The oldest of three children who have all dedicated their lives to public service, Mr. Hernandez wants to continue his work for many of the people he previously represented in the State House. If successful in his … Read more
In today’s episode of Sunday Square Off with Brahm Resnik, Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego spoke about the threat the Musk/Trump/Vance MAGA Central Committee poses to Arizonans on Medicaid and Social Security with their draconian budget-cutting moves that would disrupt social services and close rural hospitals while giving tax cuts and increased government subsidies to billionaires … Read more