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MariaCSR

MariaCSR's Journal
MariaCSR's Journal
February 21, 2018

If you're on Twitter please tweet Simon & Shuster


And tell them to drop Dinesh Dsousa for saying these horrible things

https://twitter.com/cindymclennan/status/966093461580582912
February 18, 2018

I wish Trump would stop ruining sports for me

He damn near ruined football for me now he's tweeting about NASCAR and now I don't want to watch that.

Damn.

February 15, 2018

House GOP to take aim at entitlements

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/373930-citing-deficits-house-gop-to-take-aim-at-entitlements

I think it’s fundamental,” Womack said of entitlement reform. “Seventy-eight percent of what we spend in your tax dollars goes out on autopilot.”

Womack emphasized that it’s early in the process — “I'm not going to try to prescribe an outcome for my committee,” he said — but floated the notion of tapping reconciliation as a device for fast-tracking entitlement changes. 

February 12, 2018

Trump wants to decide which food SNAP recipients get

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/12/585130274/trump-administration-wants-to-decide-what-food-snap-recipients-will-get

Under the proposal, which was announced Monday, low-income Americans who receive at least $90 a month — just over 80 percent of all SNAP recipients — would get about half of their benefits in the form of a "USDA Foods package." The package was described in the budget as consisting of "shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit and vegetables." The boxes would not include fresh fruits or vegetables
February 2, 2018

When Trump screamed DO SOMETHING on Twitter, Nunes stepped up

And here we are. Trump is about to get away with everything.

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