During the big Washington showdown over the government’s debt ceiling, it looked possible for a brief moment that President Joe Biden might bully GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy into hurting one of America’s most vulnerable minorities: The uberrich. Republicans were pushing hard to “fix” the government’s financing crunch by imposing vindictive new work requirements that would cut off benefits for older, low-income Americans who need Medicaid and food stamps to get by. Democrats had denounced […]
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