Paul Krugman:
"Immense cruelty was always part of the (Project 2025) plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon.
So what went wrong? I’d attribute it to a combination of policy ignorance, visceral hatred of doing anything that helps people in need, and the Epstein files.
It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his membership in a political cult depends on his not understanding it."
Cruelty - it's a feature, not a bug.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=177640056
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"A proposed rule will prohibit federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. It also prohibits reimbursement through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for patients under age 19.
An additional proposed rule would go even further, blocking all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care."
This is just the beginning ... 🙁
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care
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