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A letter from U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, which reads: Dear Ms. Reick, Thank you for contacting me about Medicare and Medicaid. I appreciate your views on these critical programs, as I do your patience with my reply as we navigate a great deal of correspondence. In recent months, many in the dishonest media who profit from fear have falsely claimed that I and other Republicans want to defund/dissolve the Medicaid and Medicare programs. WRONG. To be clear, I do not now, nor have I ever supported the dissolution of either program, nor is it the “Republican platform…to destroy or dismantle” Medicaid or Medicare” as the leftwing media keeps touting in its desperate, fearmongering propaganda. While reform is desperately needed, people have paid into these programs for years – and the people who need it most should get the help they need and the help their tax dollars have paid into. President Trump agrees with me on these programs, and any efforts from the Left to distort our positions are cruel, devious, and tiresome – at best. Our federal overspending is an existential threat to these programs, though, and does need to be addressed. Both programs are projected to go bankrupt in this decade, and urgent spending cuts are needed to curtail this pending catastrophe – something my Democrat colleagues are not only causing via rampant, irresponsible, and increased spending, but also disinterested in discussing, let alone addressing. For decades, Congress has not completed our statutorily prescribed 12 separate appropriations bills to allow for adequate deliberation of each sector funded by the government, a process which prevents inevitable waste and overspending. The absence of this process was amplified especially during COVID under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A plushie of Larry, the cat that resides at 10 Downing Street. He is wearing a red, white, and blue bowtie.
A post on X (formerly known as Twitter) from state Sen. Jarrett Coleman that says, "Yesterday I mentioned that the [Pennsylvania Department of Transportation] airplane flew to Washington, D.C. According to Politico, a fundraiser was held for [Gov. Josh Shapiro] in D.C. It appears there's a return flight home scheduled for today, I wonder who's on and paying for these flights."
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) from Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that says, "Thank you, President Trump. As a boy sat in the Oval Office where my uncle led on the issues of health and fitness And now, six decades later. I stand with a transformational leader who fully grasps the public health crisis our great nation faces. I couldn't be more thrilled to be confirmed as the 26th Secretary of [the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services]. Let's Make America Healthy Again." President Trump is sitting to the left in a blue suit with a burgundy tie. Sec. Kennedy stands to his right in a blue suit and tie. They are in the Oval Office.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) from the White House that says, "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, IS SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING! –President Donald Trump." The post includes a picture similar to Times magazine covers that says "TRUMP" at the top and "LONG LIVE THE KING" at the bottom left. It features Trump with a crown, red tie, white shirt, and blue suit with a lapel pin of the American flag on the right. He is in front of the New York skyline.
Blue sky with white clouds.