You voted for budget cuts. Why are you crying now, Alaska?
Two legislators from Alaska – including a republican and an independent – simply published an editorial with sleeves The New York Times Warning that the last bill on the GOP budget reconciliation throws its state into chaos. The title? “”Alaska cannot survive this bill.“”
The list of horrors is long: nearly 40,000 Alaskians will lose their health coverage, tens of thousands of people will be hungry because the Snap advantages will be reduced, rural clinics and grocery stores will disappear, schools will be funded and entire communities will be left to themselves.
Everything is true. And all this is the direct result of the agenda for which Alaska voted.
President Donald Trump campaigned to avoid the federal government – making an iron at Medicaid, killing food assistance, implemented tax credits on clean energies and funding agencies that maintain rural America. More than 54% of Alaskians voted for him in 2024 anyway.
This is not new. The red states have long depended on federal programs even that their politicians promise to destroy. When Trump cuts the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it is Governors of the Red States that panic. When Medicaid is attacked, it is Rural hospitals in deep red counties who goes under. With a click on the blockage, the red states suffer. Virginia-Western, for example, has 16% of its population on food coupons.
And through all this, the blue states Continue to the invoice– Only to be spread out as a “socialist” to insist that the government really helps people.
In fact, the crowd of the small government is the most dependent on government aid. The same politicians who have repercussions against documents suddenly require sculptures when the ax swings – like the Senator Lisa Murkowski rush to protect Alaska Of the law even for its voters. It is a model and it ages.
In their editorial, the authors warn that “Alaska cannot afford to lose financing for health care”, citing high rates of suicide, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted state infections, as well as a serious shortage of behavioral health services. The botter? They say that the GOP cups “will only worsen these problems”, as if Alaska was only overwhelmed by public health crises and therefore deserves a permanent federal subsidy while voting to deny one to everyone.
Apparently, when it is a red state in difficulty, the government must intervene. Immediately. With money from blue states, which only receive contempt in return.
Alaska receives more federal money per capita than almost any other state. More than 40% of its state budget is funded by the federal government, a third of Alaskians are on Medicaid and more than 70,000 are based on SNAP – around 10% of the population. This funding comes massively from blue states Like California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Washington, which vote for a functional government.
So, yes, Alaska is right to be afraid. The bill will devastate them. But they are not innocent. They helped build the demolition ball – and now they are shocked to find it swinging in their direction. Actions have consequences.
“What is the end game here?” How does he help to intervene in health care coverage for our most vulnerable thanks to administrative formalities or to take food for families who have not been limited for paid employment? ” The so -called opinion.
Large questions. Do you know who is not trying to do all of this? Democrats.
If this bill passes and the lights start to go out in Alaska, there will be no confusion that has reversed the switch.
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