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MORE GREAT BUDGET NEWS

The Senate Parliamentarian just struck a massive blow to Republicans' Medicaid cuts, per announcement from Senate Budget Dems. Elements that are not compliant with the Byrd Rule and need to be stripped from the bill:

– Provider tax crackdown (!!!)

– Limiting federal money for states that allow undocumented immigrants to receive Medicaid

– Additional limits on Medicaid, Medicare & ACA premium tax credits for immigrants who aren't citizens

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Bill Moyers, the one-time press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson who went on to have a long and distinguished journalism career, has died at age 91. Much of Moyers' work focused on strengthening U.S. democracy and limiting the corrupting influence of money in politics. He was also a champion of public broadcasting, spending decades at PBS in various on-air roles.

I followed him on social media but haven’t seen him the last 2-3 years. Maybe he wasn’t aware of the depths to which democracy had sunk during that time. If he was, I’m sure he was heartbroken. Seeing the state of the news media drop from when he was on CBS and PBS was bad enough.

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