What Are Republicans Doing at Arizona’s and the Nation’s Capitols? Not Helping People

The United States Congress went into session on January 3.

The Arizona State Legislature did so on January 13.

What is the first legislative proposals to come down the pike to help the people in Arizona and across the nation?

Not a whole hell of a lot.

While measures are debated on the House floor on discriminating against innocent transgender children (How Christian is that? Watch Representatives Yassamin Ansari’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s take down of Republicans on their measure.) and proposals are leaked showing Republicans wanting to enact spending cuts in programs like Medicaid, Health Care Marketplaces, and Food Stamps that will hurt the disadvantaged and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)and all is provisions that helped seniors get discounted prescription drugs and provided for the largest investments in Clean Energy (apparently the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, while railing publicly against the IRA., has been privately asking for funding from that law for his district,)so they could finance the renewal and expansion of the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy.

They also introduced a bill to allow Donald Trump to negotiate with Denmark to obtain Greenland.

The Republican House Conference, filled with mostly white men, wants to also make it harder for pregnant women and new mothers to vote remotely.

How Christian is that?

It is definitely the height of male chauvinism.

In the Arizona House of Representatives, Republicans on the Education Committee, still with their Wild Wild West world view, decided to bring up yet again a bill to arm teachers with firearms in all schools.

Where are the agenda items to fully fund K-12 schools or reign in fraud and abuse in the Empowerment Scholarship Account Programs?

Nowhere to be seen.

In the Arizona State Senate, SB1011, a Republicans only sponsored bill that could, according to Senate Democrat Senator Analise Ortiz, under the guise of processing votes faster, put inconveniences and obstacles in the way of people casting ballots, was scheduled to be heard in committee today.

Nowhere in the proposed legislation are Democratic ideas like expanding early voting and allowing voters to drop off their ballot without signing for it as long as they show valid identification.

So much for, as Senate President Peterson said just before Governor Katie Hobbs giving her State of the State Address, working to adopt “common sense” measures.

Discrimination against innocent children, cutting spending on social justice programs, paying lip service to Trumps mania to acquire Greenland, being hostile and unaccommodating to pregnant women, having a deaf ear to the need of public school funding and Empowerment Scholarship fraud, and promoting voter suppression.

In what reality is that an agenda to help the people and make their lives better?

Short answer.

It is not.