The Grants Pass Supreme Court decision said that you can clear encampments, even if you have nowhere for folks to go. This is going a step further and saying you can put people into institutions against their will.
"There's a lot the state can do-they certainly should not be exacerbating the federal impacts," Williams said. "The most recent budget adopted by the state layers its own medical cuts on top of federal cuts, and that is very concerning. The state needs to take care of its public hospital systems."
Today, Donald Trump and the Republican party sent a message to America: if you are not a billionaire, we don't give a damn about you, said Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chair. While the GOP continues to cash their billionaire donors' checks, their constituents will starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs and yes, some will die as a result of this bill.
GOP leaders are rushing to meet Trump's Fourth of July deadline to pass the package, but they barely secured enough support to muscle it past a procedural Saturday night hurdle.
It is revolting that President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, fired staffers at the World Trade Center Health Program, including its administrator.
