Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East from the party that brought you, well,

we're all going to die. Comes, quote, they'll get over it. Republicans doubling and

tripling down today on their naked callousness and public indifference to the suffering of their

own constituents, also that Donald

Trump can do a victory lap and then now bulldozed Rose Garden.

That quote, they'll get over it, comes from none other than former Senate Republican leader

Mitch McConnell.

Unlike Senator Joni Ernst, grim and dismissive response to her own constituents face, she's the one

that said, we're all going to die. McConnell was talking about the same thing, those massive cuts

to Medicaid. Punchball news reports that Mitch McConnell's comment happened in a closed door meeting

of the Senate Republican caucus, where Mitch McConnell said regarding Trump's so-called

big beautiful bill, this, quote, failure isn't an option. Quote, I know a lot of us are hearing

from people back home about Medicaid, but they'll get over it. It is worth noting that Medicaid

isn't some obscure opt-in optional program. According to one poll, 69% of all Americans say that

someone close to them has used Medicaid at some point in their lives. 56% of all Americans say

that either they or a family member have at some point been on Medicaid, been covered by Medicaid.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Mitch McConnell said the senator was talking about, quote,

the people who are abusing Medicaid, the able-bodied Americans who should be working, end quote.

It's not exactly a denial of what he said.

If anything, the statement implies that McConnell believes that people

affected by cuts to Medicaid are some massive pool of 16 million freeloaders who choose

not to work and will, in his words, his quote, get over it. Perhaps he should say that to the people who have appeared at town hall meetings in every

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