=It’s Time To Dismantle The Medicaid State.==

Democrats are up to their usual scare tactics. “When in doubt, terrify people,” is a pretty lousy way to treat the electorate, but why should we expect politicians to retire such an effective technique? The boogeyman of the day: cuts to Medicaid.

House Republicans, tasked with identifying at least $880 billion in cuts, introduced sweeping legislative changes to Medicaid late Sunday evening. The proposals include stripping federal funding from Planned Parenthood and banning the use of Medicaid dollars for the chemical and surgical mutilation of young people, according to Politico. The usual suspects reacted with their usual hysteria.

Moar: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/it-s-time-to-dismantle-the-medicaid-state/ar-AA1EHo79

'He's not getting out': Calls for Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin slammed by state AG.

The attorney general of Minnesota says ongoing efforts to petition President Donald Trump for a federal pardon of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd in 2020, are irrelevant when it comes to his state conviction — noting Sunday that Chauvin “still owes Minnesota 22 ½ years.”

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Record $16B tariff inflow helped ease the US budget deficit rate.

Revenue from tariffs hit a record high of more than $16 billion in April, helping to reduce the pace of the U.S. budget deficit accumulation, the Treasury Department said on Monday.

Customs duties totaled $16.3 billion last month, nearly double the $8.2 billion brought in for March as President Donald Trump’s sweeping protective tariffs took effect. Trump slapped at least 10% on imports from certain countries and ramped up a trade war with China by hitting the communist nation with as much as 145% tariffs on goods.

Year-to-date revenue from October 2024 through April 2025 hit $59.2 billion and is up significantly from the $44.1 billion collected over the same period in FY 2024.

Moar: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/record-16b-tariff-inflow-helped-ease-the-us-budget-deficit-rate/ar-AA1EGFy3

Oh shit, get ready for some temper tantrums that will put the general public in danger!

The DNC’s Credentials Committee voted Monday to nullify the results of the February election in which Hogg and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta won two of the three vice chair positions. The vote followed a procedural complaint that one of the losing candidates made challenging the way the election was determined.

Moar: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-moves-toward-nullifying-election-of-david-hogg-malcolm-kenyatta-as-vice-chairs/ar-AA1EHfn2

Two more Fetterman aides leave embattled senator’s office.

Fetterman aides Madeleine Marr and Caroline Shaffer parted ways with his team, according to two people familiar with their departures and granted anonymity to speak freely. They left shortly before New York magazine reported that current and former Fetterman staff are increasingly concerned about the Democratic senator’s mental and physical health, one of the people said.

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Klobuchar’s latest kitchen-table pronouncement.

Oh, Jesus, take the wheel. Will Democratic politicians ever come to grips with the fact that this administration does what it says it will do, that they mean what they say? (In the Senate, sometimes, I think Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy are the only ones who do.)

Over the weekend, on Meet the Press, Klobuchar was asked about Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus, and the threat to judges—unless they “do the right thing”—that came with it. This is what she said. From the Hill:

Klobuchar dismissed the threat, saying Trump has to follow the Constitution, “And in that Constitution there is the right of habeas corpus.” She also noted that “even conservative commentators” have said that only Congress can reverse that basic constitutional principle, which she said is “not going to happen.” “But to me, you know what? That isn’t really the issue. The issue is that Stephen Miller brings that up on a Friday, just to throw it out there,” she said, pointing to an earlier interview with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who said the issue is not something on which Congress is focused.

Moar: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amy-klobuchar-says-she-s-not-worried-about-trump-s-latest-threat-is-she-not-paying-attention/ar-AA1EDTQT