PAWTUCKET POLICE SAY THIS IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. AFTER MORE THAN SIX MONTHS OF DEBATE — THE PRESIDENT’S SO CALLED ‘ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL, BILL’ — WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS TODAY — AND WILL SOON BE ON ITS WAY TO THE PRESIDENT’S DESK. THE LEGISLATION SIGNIFICANTLY BOOSTS SPENDING FOR BORDER SECURITY — IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT — AND DEFENSE IT ALSO EXTENDS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S 2017 TAX CUTS — INCREASES THE CHILD TAX CREDIT — AND ENDS TAXES ON TIPS AND OVERTIME PAY. TODAY THE PRESIDENT SPOKE WITH REPORTERS ABOUT THE LEGISLATIVE VICTORY . We’re sort of celebrating like the biggest bill of its kind ever signed.
And it’s going to make this country into a rocket ship, it’s going to be really great. We went over that bill and point after point biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border. Immigration is covered. We covered just about everything.
AND WITH MAINLY DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS HERE LOCALLY━ REACTION FROM OUR D-C DELEGATION AND THOSE ON SMITH HILL HAS BEEN HIGHLY CRITICAL━ ESPECIALLY ABOUT CHANGES TO MEDICAID AND FOOD ASSISTANCE.
I’ve activated my entire cabinet on this issue — GOVERNOR DAN MCKEE OUT WITH THIS VIDEO MESSAGE━ SHORTLY AFTER THE PASSAGE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S BUDGET BILL — WARNING THAT THE PLAN WILL IMPACT THE HEALTH AND ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF RHODE ISLANDERS…
For many of our neighbors this law reduces access to supports like SNAP food assistance. It puts health insurance for thousands of Rhode Islanders in jeopardy, breaking president Trump’s empty promise to protect Medicaid.
ALL OF RHODE ISLAND’S DEMOCRATIC DELEGATION VOTED AGAINST THE BILL━ AND SENATOR JACK REED HAD URGED HIS REPUBLICAN COUNTERPARTS TO DO THE SAME –WARNING IT WOULD PUT STATES IN A POSITION WHERE THEY’D HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SAVING OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS━ AND SAVING OUR SCHOOLS. The BBB is going to help the wealthy but working-class Americans will be paying more city and town taxes for education, they’ll see services decline all of those things, and we will not be preparing of the next generation of leading the world and innovation and prosperity. SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE AGREED━ CALLING THE MEASURE THE Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill CONGRESSMEN GABE AMO AND SETH MAGAZINER ALSO BLASTED THE TAX AND SPENDING PLAN. RHODE ISLAND GOP CHAIRMAN JOE POWERS━ SEES IT DIFFERENTY. My first reaction is frankly, thank god they got it done WE ASKED HIM WHAT HIS RESPONSE WAS TO THE DEMOCRATIC OUTCRY THAT THE MOST VULNERABLE WILL SUFFER.
He said – PEOPLE SHOULD READ THE BILL.
Everything you’re being told for the most part is a lie; People will be taken off Medicaid but it will be able bodied workers. As far as the challenges are concerned, they’re good challenges. It’s kind of like going to the gym and pumping up your muscles and feeling that pain. We’re finally going to feel growth in the state of Rhode Island.
ASKED ABOUT THE GOP BUDGET PLAN ON A RECENT EPISODE OF NEWSMAKERS━ HOUSE SPEAKER JOE SHEKARCHI SAID RHODE ISLAND LAWMAKERS MIGHT NEED TO RETURN FOR A SPECIAL SESSION THIS FALL DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON. We have to keep all our options open and the table.
But you could come back? It could be ON THURSDAY LOCAL LAWMAKERS SAID IT WAS STILL TOO SOON TO SAY WHETHER THAT WAS NECESSARY━ POINTING TO PROACTIVE STEPS THEY TOOK IN THE RECENTLY-PASSED.
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