51,000
That is the number of people projected to die from a Yale University Study on the cruel effects of the Trump/MAGA Project 2025 Republicans Social Darwinist cuts in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare.
In a June 3 letter to Senators Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders, the analysts at Yale concluded that the current version of the MAGA Project 2025 take from the poor and give to the rich would result in:
- “11,300 deaths from the loss of Medicaid or Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage due to 7.7 million people losing coverage.
- 18,200 deaths due to the loss of Medicaid coverage among 1.38 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries, causing loss of access to low-income prescription drug subsidies.
- 13,000 deaths among Medicaid enrollees in nursing homes due to the rollback of CMS’ 2024 nursing home minimum staffing rule.
- 8,881 deaths from the Affordable Care Marketplace if the finalized version of the MAGA Project 2025 take from the poor and give to the rich budget does not extend the Enhanced ACA Premium Tax Credits.”
These all add up to just over 51,000 people dying needlessly because Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, in their Project 2025 budget, are advancing their own cruel and monstrous version of Social Darwinism and Elon Musk supported Long Termism-Eugenics by taking away vital health services from the poor and middle class just to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy that they do not need.
The number of projected deaths for Americans would probably higher if you factor in the people who will starve to death and become sick if they do not get Food Stamps/SNAP they need, die on the operating table now that the Trump Administration has taken away emergency abortion hospital guidelines, are denied life saving drugs or treatments because cancer or other medical research has been cut, perish in natural disasters either because they could not listen to a weather report on NPR either because the warning system was cut off or the National Weather Service was unable to provide the staffing, and pollution exposure because MAGA has cut off cleanup efforts in poor communities.
These numbers do not include all the people around the world who have died because Musk and Trump cut off global aid like medical and food assistance.
This House passed MAGA Cruel Project 2025 Budget bill, now being considered in the Senate, should be retitled from the Big Beautiful Bill to Death Trap.
People who watch MAGA Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson or White House Budget Director and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought say on National TV that Medicaid will not be cut and will not add to the deficit and national debt.
Do not believe them. They are lying through their teeth. History has proven since Reagan that trickle down economics is nonsense.
People who watch Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Elon Musk say the current house bill is no good.
These individuals are not new found allies. They want the bill to be crueler with greater spending cuts imposed on the working and middle class. As mentioned earlier, Musk is a Eugenicist who wants the people he thinks are weak and unproductive to die.
Commenting to Blog for Arizona on the cruel and dire effects the people will face thanks to the Trump MAGA Republican Project 2025 Budget, Arizona State Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan offered:
“We know that people will die if they are stripped of their healthcare. Republicans know this too and yet they are still choosing to move forward a budget that will cost people their lives – all just to give a massive tax break to the top 1% in this country. It is deeply alarming how Republicans at every level of government are willing and eager to cast aside the most vulnerable in our country.”
Arizona Congressional District Seven Candidate Deja Foxx responded to a request to comment on the mortality projections conveyed in the Yale Letter by presenting a segment of her interview last week on the Dean Obedeillah show where she relayed:
“I just hosted a round table intimate in my living room in the days following that budget bill vote in which we invited storytellers to share what Medicaid has meant to them, and we had a mix of folks in the room. I mean, one woman, a neonatal doctor who takes care of our tiniest and most vulnerable folks, shared that half of the babies are more than half of the babies born here in Arizona are born on Medicaid. AHCCCS is what we call it here in Arizona. And there’s nothing pro-family about taking away that care. Similarly, there was a young woman who’s actually on a pre-med track in school whose mother was diagnosed with cancer and her family had to make a hard decision. Would they start care now and not make the bills this month or delay treatment to be able to afford the cost of living. They delayed treatment, and she lost her mother, and these were the kinds of stories that if we see more Medicaid cuts. We will hear time and time again, and it’s enough to say, oh well, we’ll make it through the Trump Administration, but will we… We had a young man show up to the storytelling session who had never been to a political event before…I ask these folks, what is your message to these Republicans who voted to strip this funding from Medicaid? And you know he shared with? How can these people, these elected officials officials, these Congress people take this funding away if they have ever sat with people like us? And the answer is that they haven’t. They refuse to, by and large, and it is because they’re too busy sitting with their donors. And that’s a problem that is endemic to our our government, is it stands, and it’s why people feel so frustrated.“
Adelita Grijalva, one of the other major candidates in the CD Seven special election, responded to Blog for Arizona on the Yale Letter by stating:
“Trump’s Big Ugly Bill will make devastating cuts to Medicaid, ACA coverage, and protections for low-income seniors — policies that would result in over 51,000 preventable deaths each year. These cuts aren’t about fiscal responsibility; they’re about handing out tax breaks to billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. Slashing health care for working families, seniors, and the most vulnerable to fund handouts for the richest few is morally indefensible. This is exactly why we need Medicare for All, so no one’s life or health is sacrificed to serve the interests of the ultra-rich.”
Daniel Hernandez, the other major CD 7 Candidate asserted:
“The Trump administration would rather let people die than provide access to health care. Medicaid saved my life and if elected, I will do everything to save Medicaid and health care access through the Affordable Care Act.”
If this budget passes in its current or even worse form, Democratic and other Progressives activists should hound the people who voted for it and ask, “Heh MAGA, how many people did the budget you voted for kill today?”
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