This is the Tom Hartman program.

Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom in the American way.

Wow, so the American way. Wow.

So the Republicans yesterday passed their tax bill.

Donald Trump is not going to be able to sign it apparently

until after the first of the year

because the tax bill will provoke an immediate 4% cut in Medicare

and a huge cut in Medicaid.

In fact, the Republicans in their legislation three weeks ago authorized a billion dollar cut excuse me a yeah a I'm

sorry a trillion dollar cut no it's it's let me find the exact numbers here. We'll get to these, but the, there's

going to be a huge cut in Medicare and Medicaid, 4% to Medicare, I know that amount, 4%

per year to Medicare.

Unless they pass a spending bill that specifically says,

no, don't do the cut this year.

But that's going to have to reverse sequestration.

It's just a whole big mess. But in the meantime, you know,

the news that's all over Trump TV, they're calling it nowadays. I call it Fox

so-called news, and the right-wingcalled news and the right-wing hate

radio you know well-funded well-greased machine out there is that AT&T is

giving you know 200,000 workers a thousand dollar bonus and

Comcast is giving a hundred thousand workers a thousand dollar bonus and isn't

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