Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out podcast. This is Tim Fullerton. We are down one today. Luke had a previous engagement. So if you're listening to us for the F bombs, you might have a few less to listen to this week. So I'm sorry about that. But we have lots of things that the four of us will talk about. And the biggest one is the Trump tax bill that is slowly making its way

through the Senate. And in fact, by the time you listen to this tomorrow morning, because we're

doing this on Monday, the Senate may, may have passed their version. That doesn't mean the bill

is done. And because there's a reconciliation process that needs to happen with this. but they've made the bill even worse than the Republicans had it.

I think at this point we're looking at $900 billion of cuts to Medicaid, which translates into 16 million Americans losing their health insurance.

Likely 300 hospitals across the country will be closed in 500 nursing homes,

at least. These are the estimates that have come out.

Yeah, Tim, but does it, does it help you to know that Lisa Murkowski has exempted Alaskans

from all this pain? Does that help? No, no. And I'm, I'm from a state. You don't want to

move to Alaska? No, I'm from a state. You don't want to move to Alaska.

No, I'm from a state that may get some car votes too, which is Maine for Susan Collins, because she has a imaginary moderate reputation to uphold up there as she runs for reelection next year.

That was something earlier. We were talking about hot takes. And my hot take is that Susan Collins pulled the wall over Nainer's eyes for 30 years and pretending that she is a moderate when she absolutely is a cold take Tim that's a cold yeah I don't think I don't

think I'm I don't think I'm at risk just because it's Maine yes Maine yes me always cold

it's physically cold that was a pun sorry I know I can't tell you how many times people

are like do you have electricity up there?

Like, yes, yes.

We are just like everybody else.

Anyways, so let's all, I'm going to, for Luke's purpose, let's talk about how fucked up this

bill is.

Yeah, let's hear it.

Let's hear all the bad things.

Why is any, why are we passing this bill, by the way? That's the question. It's like I made a video this morning about like the truth is the, like, if you're just the average Republican voter, you're sort of like trading, you know, tens of millions of people's health insurance and livelihood for a couple hundred bucks in tax savings every year.

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