Congress passed a controversial Republican bill despite widespread dissent among members. This bill will lead to significant cuts in Medicaid access for millions, contradicting the President's statements. The growing federal deficit will also result in soaring interest payments on debt. There's concern that Trump may replace the chair of the Federal Reserve with a more compliant figure to address his interest rate concerns. This multitude of crises has created a political landscape where many feel desensitized to the severity of ongoing issues.
"Rarely have so many members of Congress voted for a measure they so actively disliked," Susan B. Glasser noted, in her recent column after the passage of a deficit-exploding Republican bill.
Millions of people will lose access to Medicaid—a fact that the President blatantly lies about—and many trillions of dollars will be added to the deficit.
Interest payments on the federal debt will skyrocket, and Trump is so desperate for lower interest rates that he seems poised to fire his own chair of the Federal Reserve.
"I think we are the boiled frog," she replies. "We are almost panic-immune at this point, in the same way that Donald Trump has, I think, inoculated much of America against facts in our political debate."
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