Steve Cohen, the only Democratic member of Tennessee’s Congressional delegation, voted against the massive Medicaid, SNAP, and Obamacare cuts that were approved by the Republican majority and signed into law by D.C.’s real crime wave, Donald “Felon" Trump.
Regardless of how their constituents are negatively affected, Tennessee’s seven Republican House members are loyal Trump sycophants who can be counted on to support ANY position or piece of legislation that Trump commands them to approve.
Steve Cohen was also alone among the TN delegation to vote against massive tax giveaways to those who need them the least. In order to give massive tax cuts to the super rich, i.e., tax filers making $5 million per year, this 0.1 percent of taxpayers will get on average an annual tax reduction of $300,000. In other words, Tennessee’s Sycophantic Seven voted to run up the national debt by $4 trillion in order to give millionaires and billionaires tax cuts they don’t need. Here’s the latest estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, reported by U.S. News:
- The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the OBBB Act will increase the national debt by $4.1 trillion over the next 10 years.
- The bill increased the statutory debt limit by $5 trillion.
- The U.S. national debt is growing at an unsustainable rate, outpacing the country's economic growth.
- Snowballing national debt can eventually lead to stagnant wages, higher interest rates, rising inflation and a weaker U.S. dollar.
The national debt numbers would be much worse if were not for the unprecedented and draconian Republican cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, and Obamacare. Here are some current estimates of what these cuts mean for Tennesseans.
Nine rural Tennessee hospitals are likely to close because of the Republican budget cuts:
- Dyersburg: Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
- Erwin: Unicoi County Hospital
- Huntingdon: Baptist Memorial Hospital Huntingdon
- Lebanon: Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital
- Martin: West Tennessee Healthcare Volunteer Hospital
- Smithville: St. Thomas Dekalb Hospital
- Sparta: Saint Thomas Highland Hospital
- Waynesboro: Wayne Medical Center
- Woodbury: Saint Thomas Stones River Hospital
Nationwide, 13.7 million people will lose health insurance, and 243,037 of them are in Tennessee. Over 166,689 will lose Obamacare coverage, and 76,348 will lose Medicaid coverage.
In Tennessee, alone, 130,000 households with school-age children will likely lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Nationwide, that number is 7.4 million households.
Republican Mark Green, who decided to retire from his House seat misrepresenting the 7th District in Tennessee, delayed his departure until after one last bow to the gang boss in the Oval Office.
In a special election this fall, Tennesseans will choose Green’s replacement in the House. Tennesseans cannot survive another three years of brown-nosed Trump Party Congressmen.
We need someone to join Tennessee’s lone Democrat, Steve Cohen, in representing the needs of working Tennesseans.
My pick to replace Green in the 7th District is Bo Mitchell. Vote Bo!
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