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Jared Ryan Sears

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A father of three wonderful girls and a veteran of the Navy who will never stop fighting to move our country forward while resisting those who wish to drag us backward. https://www.pragmatichumanist.com

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 1h

$40 billion bailout for Argentina
$113 billion annual increase to the defense budget
$117 billion in tax cuts for the top 1% in 2026 alone
$75 billion increase in funding for ICE

Republicans say we don't have money for healthcare, but those costs would cover extending the ACA subsidies for a decade

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans are putting more effort into trying to discredit a peaceful protest than they are into solving the healthcare crisis or reopening the government.

Complete ineptitude combined with a disdain for the struggles of the American people.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

As happens so often, Republican politicians have convinced their voters that the policies benefiting them are evil and socialist and must be ended, while Democrats are working to make sure the people who didn't vote for them are taken care of.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

-Republicans claim we don't have money to continue the subsidies, which the CBO estimates would cost ~$35 billion per year, but decided we did have the money to give Argentina a $20 billion bailout, the wealthiest 1% a $117 billion tax cut, and increase the military budget by $113 billion.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

-To further help people afford health insurance, Democrats enacted additional ACA premium subsidies in 2021 and extended them in 2022.

-To further help people afford health insurance, Democrats enacted additional ACA premium subsidies in 2021 and extended them in 2022.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

-Despite more Republican voters using the ACA than Democratic ones, Republican politicians tried numerous times to repeal the ACA with no plan to replace it.

-If the ACA were repealed, 24 million Americans, the largest share of which is Republican voters, would entirely lose their healthcare.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

-Contrary to the lies, healthcare premiums increased at a slower rate after the ACA was enacted than before, and healthcare access was improved, reducing the percentage of Americans uninsured from 14.4% to 7.7%.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 2d

Facts about US healthcare:🧵

-Democrats enacted the Affordable Care Act without any help from Republicans so that people who previously couldn't afford healthcare, primarily Republican voters, now could.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 3d

Trump voters are watching the wealthiest Americans become the richest they’ve ever been, while houses remain unaffordable, healthcare costs rise, and outstanding credit card debt hits a record high of $1.2 trillion, the result of hard-working Americans desperately struggling to stay afloat.

Republicans Have A Trump Problem

The government shutdown continues.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 5d

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans are not putting America first. They are prioritizing their quest for power over your needs.

Republicans are unfit to govern.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans view discussion, debate, and compromise —the hallmarks of a democratic society —as weaknesses. They feel that bullying and cruelty, the foundations of authoritarian regimes, are the basis for leadership.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans would rather have military members go without pay, flights to be delayed, and needy children to go without food than sit down with Democrats to solve the looming healthcare crisis.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans are threatening to:
-Mass fire federal employees
-Withhold legally required back pay
-Cancel federal funding for energy products while electricity costs are soaring

All to punish the American people for the embarrassment of their government shutdown.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 7d

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 8d

You've got to love the Republicans, who are like:

"I was so deeply involved in a plot to overturn a free and fair presidential election that the FBI had just cause to investigate me. Can you believe it?!"

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 9d

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 9d

Another day that the government is shut down, and the House is on recess, because Republicans refuse to deal with the issue of unaffordable healthcare and premiums that will more than double for over 20 million Americans.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 10d

Healthcare shouldn't be a political game.

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Healthcare Shouldn't Be A Game

The federal government is shut down.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 12d

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 12d

Stop viewing it as a zero-sum game where helping someone else means you lose something in return, and realize that when we work together, all of our lives improve.

Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 12d

Instead of worrying about the 0.4% of Medicaid spending that goes to reimbursing hospitals for emergency medical services provided to uninsured individuals, we should focus on solving the issue of insurance by enacting universal healthcare, like the rest of the world.

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 12d

How callous have we become, with such disdain for other human beings, that the argument has become not only if hospitals should be reimbursed after saving someone's life, but whether that life should be saved at all?

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Jared Ryan Sears @jaredryansears.bsky.social · 13d

Why won't Republicans be honest about the situation and be mature enough to have a public discussion about how over 90 million Americans say they can't afford quality healthcare?

Republicans are not taking their job as leaders seriously, and all of us are paying the price.