DESTROYING CONSTITUENTS’ LIVES IS NOT JUST ANOTHER BUMP IN THE ROAD

While y’all are trying to get that camel, i.e. OBBBA, through the eye of the Congressional needle, we read about how a good number of the GOP Congress seem to be having some buyers remorse, particularly regarding Medicaid cuts. Even though they for some reason voted to move the bill forward, presumably knowing then what they are worried about now. That made me wonder just how much of an impact we might feel here in Texas. So, just in case y’all don’t have the figures at hand, I did the math for you, based on the June 2025 report from U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Rep. Pfluger, TX District 11… 36,000 = Est. # of people losing ACA coverage 5235 = Est. # of people losing Medicaid coverage 41,235 = Est. TOTAL # of people losing insurance coverage For my two Texas Senators… 1,392,000 = Est. # of people losing ACA coverage 210,126 = Est. # of people losing Medicaid coverage 1,602,126 = Est. TOTAL # of people losing insurance coverage So keep these numbers in mind as you move forward with actions you insist are being doing in the name of We the people. Because these are your constituents, who elected you believing you would do your best for them. Because y’all keep saying some version of the following whenever confronted with questions about Medicaid obviously being cut in the OBBBA. House Speaker Mike Johnson this week once more recited “our commitment that we are not cutting Medicaid. The president has said that and I have said that. We’ve all said that.” “We’re not cutting Medicaid,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified this week. “There’s no cuts to Medicaid.” "Your Medicaid is left alone,” Trump said on Thursday afternoon. “It’s left the same.” We’ll see won’t we? The reality will probably be closer to this… “But Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), the former Republican leader, offered a cold rebuttal. “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid,” he told senators in a closed-door meeting, according to Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio. “But they’ll get over it.”” And there you have it. Oh, and just so we don’t end on a sour note… Quote of the week: “Ask Mike Pence about his last week.” Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), replying to Vice President JD Vance when he posted on X that “I wonder if other VPs had as much excitement as I do.”