The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday night released legislative text for the $72 billion budget reconciliation bill that would bypass Democratic opposition to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029. The committees released the legislation after the Senate and House passed a joint budget resolution last month unlocking the special budget reconciliation process that will allow them to move funding for immigration enforcement without conceding to Democratic demands for reforms that have hung up the funding for months. The package will be able to pass the Senate with a simple-majority vote instead of needing 60 votes to advance.
Healthcare is woke.
/jk
The real reason is a lot of dipshits would rather punch down on anyone they think is possibly getting more stuff and they think are not worthy of it. Even if it means they themselves are in absolute misery.
As long as they think a liberal/POC/gay/trans/non-xtian is getting it even worse, they are just fine. Remember, a lot of them are still obsessed with stupid shit like trans and “the border” when neither of those issues are going to affect them one iota.
We can thank the conservatives for weaponizing “last place aversion”. You’ll see this kind of thing in action when you see someone who is themselves living at the margins, possibly even making use of SNAP themselves, bitching about what other people choose to put in their carts when using SNAP. That’s last place aversion in action. People who are living hand to mouth will agonize over nut-picking news articles from the likes of Faux “News” parading around one guy that supposedly bought lobster and steak with his SNAP benefits. Stupid people will extrapolate one (alleged) anecdote into a belief that there is widespread fraud to be worried about.