Missouri’s Governor Sells Billionaires on Why They Should Donate to Him, as He’s Still Silent on Healthcare and Currently Holding an Unnecessary and Expensive Special Session
As Missouri’s top statewide Republican officeholders — Governor Eric Greitens, Lt. Governor Mike Parson, and Attorney General Josh Hawley — remain silent on the GOP’s healthcare overhaul, national reports are highlighting how the legislation would force statewide officials to make critical decisions about the future of healthcare for their residents.
The morning after Republican U.S. Senate leaders finally unveiled their secret healthcare overhaul, Missourians woke up to the front-page news that, in addition to slashing healthcare resources, the GOP’s bill would give top statewide Republicans including the Governor new authority to make critical decisions about whether or not to gut healthcare throughout the state, with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporting that “Governors could set coverage limits.”
Following President Trump’s unveiling of new restrictions on business with Cuba, agriculture groups from around the country have been warning that the shake up will have a negative economic impact for American farmers and their communities.
As Republicans in the Senate are secretly assembling a health care overhaul, it’s important to highlight the naked hypocrisy of Missouri’s Republican officeholders who once criticized the much more open and transparent process on health care reform in 2010 — but are now silent as their party leaders hide the GOP health care overhaul behind closed doors.
As President Donald Trump dismisses the U.S. House-passed health care overhaul, calling it “mean,” a new analysis is detailing exactly how the legislation — which all of Missouri’s Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted for — will spike costs in the state, hitting older Missourians especially hard.
As President Donald Trump is slamming the House-passed Trumpcare bill (which all of Missouri’s GOP Representatives voted for) as “mean,” Republican Senators continue to keep their version of the overhaul locked behind closed doors.
Missouri’s Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are Still Silent on the Trump/DeVos Plan to Slash Billions from Public Schools.
As reports are making clear that Republicans in the U.S. Senate are planning to hide their draft Trumpcare bill from the American people until the last possible second, the Missouri Democratic Party is highlighting how Missouri’s Republicans in-particular have been running and hiding from the GOP’s disastrous and unpopular health care agenda.
Amid the tumult of DC yesterday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to dismantle rules designed to protect working families from Wall Street after the 2008 financial meltdown. The vote passed with support from all of Missouri’s Republicans in the House of Representatives.