The only people on the face of this Earth that Donald J. Trump has any interest in looking out for is old, white, rich dudes who he thinks stand to make him a richer old, white dude.
That is it.
He does not care about people of color. He does not care about hungry people. He does not care about gay people. He does not care about brown people or people with a vagina. He only “cares” about people in the capacity of what he feels they may have the potential to do for him. If that person doesn’t follow through on the dream Trump had created for them in his mind, he no longer cares about that person either.
When it comes down to it, Trump’s compassion, understanding, and protection of any one individual or group of people is 100 percent dependent upon what that person or persons can do for him.
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He has cut food stamps for some of this nation’s most vulnerable people, essentially leaving them to their own devices to starve. He has made it clear on multiple occasions that people of color and the LGBTQ+ cannot, in any way, depend on him for any sort of protection. In fact, he does all he can to make their lives worse at every turn. He’s made it one of his life’s missions to make every brown person he can get his hands on feel like a subpar version of a human being, undeserving of anything more than a cage and an eternity separated from their family. He’s fought tooth and nail since his inauguration to ensure that anyone in this country without a 6 figure annual income cannot afford to go to the doctor.
And now it seems he’s turned again to picking on Peurto Rico.
The US territory fell victim to the devastating Hurricane Maria two years ago and has struggled to get back on their feet ever since. The fact that Donald Trump’s personal involvement in their recuperation has been limited to throwing paper towels into a desperate crowd like cheaply-made t-shirts at a high school ball game hasn’t helped anything.
But now, new reports have revealed that Trump has gone from merely being absent in the US territory’s regrowth to actually being a super-colossal hindrance.
Recently, Republican and Democratic leaders came together and approved $12 billion in aid to Puerto Rico over the course of the next 4 years as part of a $1.4 trillion spending bill that narrowly staved off another government shutdown and was meant to provide crucial healthcare funding to the devastated island.
However, it seems that Donald Trump just could not stand idly by and allow our government to actually help someone in need — much less a territory made up almost completely of brown people.
According to reports, Trump personally intervened and pulled $6.3 billion in funding for Puerto Rico from the budget before he allowed it to go up for a vote and be passed by the House this week.
The cruel move by number 45 left Puerto Ricans with just $5.7 billion in Medicaid funding — despite the territory’s multiple attempts at funding negotiations in hopes of a better, long-term solution in lieu of the rather frequent funding extensions they are forced to request from the federal government right now.
Trump has frequently expressed his disdain for the US territory over the years, once even referring to Puerto Rico as “one of the most corrupt places on Earth” — which evidently translates to undeserving of life-saving medical care in his Adderall-fried brain.
Spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget Chase Jennings told Politico that the US has been up against “historical waste” in Puerto Rico and that “additional funding was not needed or fiscally responsible.”
“This administration remains committed to properly prioritizing US taxpayer dollars,” he added, labeling the agreement as a “win for President Trump and the American people.”
The chronic underfunding of the island’s Medicaid program, thanks to a cap from the federal government, has caused an “alarming exodus to the mainland” according to multiple experts.
Robert Greenstein, employee with the left-leaning Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities think tank told Politico, “With another funding cliff looming in two years under the new agreement, Puerto Rico may continue to lack the certainty it needs to commit to long-term increases of its very low payment rates to health care providers to stem their alarming exodus to the mainland.”
You can read the full Politico report here.
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