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GOP Medicaid Cuts Are a Dagger Pointed Directly at Our Most Vulnerable

The numbers are clear. Nursing home residents depend on Medicaid. According to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, fully 63% of nursing home care in the United States is funded by Medicaid. Some states are even more dependent on Medicaid than the national average. For example, in West Virginia fully 77% of nursing home care is funded by Medicaid.

What People Really Think of Trump’s First 100 Days in Office

According to CNN exit polling, in 2024, US President Donald Trump lost Independent voters to Vice President Kamala Harris by a slim three percentage points (49%) Harris, 46% Trump). One hundred days into Trump 2.0, numerous polls demonstrate that Independents disapprove of the president’s job performance. With American politics extremely polarized between Democrats and Republicans, Independents are the critical battleground.

New polling shows a collapse in Trump’s approval numbers

Several major polling outlets are beginning to release survey research data to examine President Trump’s first 100 days in office. The numbers are to put it as nicely as possible, not good for the Trump team. To put it more bluntly: The bottom has fallen out of Trump’s job approval ratings.

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