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“Trump targets Morning
Joe co-hosts in latest Twitter tirade against media
... Donald Trump attacked the
hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, making an especially
crude reference to anchor Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly” from a
facelift.
The president fired off at
Brzezinski and co-host Joe Scarborough in a series of tweets posted
just before their morning show was drawing to a close.
“I heard poorly rated
Morning Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump
wrote.
“Then how come low-IQ,
crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in
a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was
bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
… Trump once shared a
friendly rapport with the Morning Joe hosts, frequently calling in to
their program during the Republican primaries. But Trump began
levying personal attacks against the duo during the general election,
deeming their coverage of him unfair.
Trump once threatened to
“tell the real story” of Scarborough’s relationship with
Brzezinski (the co-hosts are engaged to be married). In that
instance, Trump made similarly gendered remarks about Brzezinski by
referring to her as Scarborough’s “very insecure long-time
girlfriend” and “a neurotic and not very bright mess”.
While Scarborough and
Brzezinski were sighted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on New Year’s
Eve, Scarborough publicly denied they were there to participate in
the festivities. “Nothing that Mika and I did in setting up this
meeting was any different than what all good reporters and news hosts
try to do daily,” Scarborough said in January, adding: “I hope we
get the interview.”
… In a statement to reporters on
Thursday, the first lady’s spokesperson said: “As the first lady
has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he
will punch back 10 times harder.”
Top White House aide Sarah Huckabee
Sanders echoed this on Fox News. “This is a president who fights
fire with fire, and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by
liberal media,” Sanders said.
Adrienne Watson, a
spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, said the
president’s “bullying” tweets were “an attack on women
everywhere”.
She said: “Trump has a
long pattern of making demeaning, sexist and discriminatory comments
about the women who take him on. The fact that they happen frequently
doesn’t make them OK. From his Twitter slurs to his policies, we
have a president who continues to show us he has no regard for women
and whose comments demean the office he holds.” … “
You can read the story here
( Courtesy of The Guardian )
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“CBO Explainer: Better Care Reconciliation Act
… the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of Senate Republicans’ Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). CBO score evaluates BCRA along several dimensions, including estimates of changes in health care coverage and premium expenses, and the impact on the federal budget. Below is an overview of CBO’s score. …
Coverage Impact
CBO estimates that, by 2026, BCRA will result in 22 million losing insurance, increasing the overall number of uninsured to nearly 50 million or 17.5 percent of the population under 65. ...
Conclusion
The Senate Republicans claimed to want to lower costs and expand coverage. This bill fails to achieve either objective. Instead, Senate Republicans have proposed to take health care away from 22 million Americans, increasing the number of uninsured to nearly 50 million in 2026. Those left with coverage will be paying for lower quality plans that leave them with fewer benefits and higher deductibles. It’s well past time for Republicans to stop negotiating with themselves and work with Democrats to improve our nation’s health care system – a system that impacts one-sixth’s of the nation’s economy.
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