Melania snubs Trump at State of the Union
Today’s Action: Stop Trump’s Medicaid Denial Scheme
Today’s Top Stories:
Melania arrives at State of the Union and humiliates Trump by breaking a tradition
The First Lady turned heads and sent Trump a scathingly clear message.
Trump gets caught on hot mic after SOTU speech with shady remark to Republican (WATCH)
He accidentally revealed his true colors only moments after exiting the stage.
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People In All 50 States Are Defying Trump’s Efforts To Undo Obama’s Climate Saving Legacy With This Online Service
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High school student who reported undocumented classmate to ICE gets what he deserves
The racist student tried to do Trump’s bidding, but it backfired in humiliating fashion.
Joe Kennedy swipes at Trump’s obsession with crowd size in SOTU response
In last night’s official response to Trump, the rising star knew exactly how to get under his skin.
Trump deports a man that even Congress had begged him not to
Trump’s brazen and unprecedented act of bigotry angered even some of his own supporters in Congress.
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Bezos and Buffet launch a nonprofit company that may revolutionize US healthcare
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and megainvestor Warren Buffet set out to stop Trump from sabotaging our healthcare system.
Dress for the president you want, not the one you have
OD Action Partner: New resistance gear and progressive gifts are online now at the official store of OD Action.
Correction: On Sunday, we shared a story about a chef who claimed to have been barred from a restaurant by Ivanka Trump. Since then, the First Daughter insisted she was not responsible for the incident and, though an explanation was not given, the chef has accepted her word and withdrawn his accusation. We apologize for the error.
Today’s Action: Stop Trump’s Medicaid Denial Scheme
In his latest attempt to snatch health coverage away from working families, Trump has issued guidance to states allowing them to drop Medicaid recipients unless they meet specific work requirements.
Already, Kentucky’s Republican Governor Matt Bevin has implemented this Medicaid denial scheme, which would deny potentially life-saving healthcare to people who don’t meet the requirements.
In Kentucky alone, 95,000 low-income recipients will be dropped within five years…and nine more states are expected to follow Kentucky’s dangerous formula — if we don’t stop them.
- can’t work due to physical and mental health
- live in areas of high unemployment
- are single parents, often with no access to childcare
- are often employed, but can’t earn enough to rise above poverty levels.
By implementing these new excuses to deny health coverage, Republicans aren’t just setting an arbitrary standard that most are unable to fulfill, they’re passing a malicious and misguided ‘moral’ judgment on 68 million people: that poverty is the fault of the poor.
The truth is, most American families are struggling to do the best they can in a country where the deck is stacked against working people by unfair policies like these.
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