THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN. Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It
Source: The Daily Beast
The administration is tasked with overseeing the health care law. Instead, it has made a major social media push to undermine it.
SAM STEIN
07.20.17 1:00 AM ET
The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it.
The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push as well as video testimonials designed at damaging public opinion of President Obamas health care law, is far more robust and sustained than has been publicly revealed or realized.
The strategy has caught the eye of legal experts and Democrats in Congress, who have asked government agencies to investigate whether the administration has misused funds and engaged in covert propaganda in its efforts to damage and overturn the seven-year-old health care law. Its also roiled Obama administration veterans, who argue that the current White House is not only abdicating its responsibilities to administer the law but sabotaging it in an effort to facilitate its undoing by Congress.
Im on a daily basis horrified by leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services who seem intent on taking healthcare away from the constituents they are supposed to serve, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with The Daily Beast. We always believed that delivering health and human services was the mission of the department. That seems to not be the mission of the current leadership.
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Ninga
(8,277 posts)ananda
(28,877 posts).. sinking sinking.
Pretty damn stinky and sticky too.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Put it on the list.
forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)regarding healthcare laws that people depend on violates something in the oath of office he took. Someone enterprising could bring him up on potentially millions of manslaughter (?) charges.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)That's what we get for daring to protest the Deathcare bill. Not only does he not care that people will die, he probably revels in it. All those Democrats dead! What he doesn't realize is that it's not only Democrats protesting.
forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)hopefully sooner than later, I totally expect he will deride the American people for not "deserving" him.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)Renew Deal
(81,877 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)States can use Federal funds for just the designated grant.
Individuals can use Federal funds (SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare) for only approved line items.
If it is fraud for us then it is fraud for the Federal Government.
Fla Dem
(23,765 posts)The have lived their lives, including Trump, scheming ways to stiff everyone while lining their own pockets. That's what they're doing now to the foundations of our government.
gademocrat7
(10,672 posts)Chump and his cabal need to be held accountable for their criminal activities.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)Uh, I think the author must have meant "riled", seeing as Obama administration veterans aren't a liquid that is moving around in a turbulent manner. Maybe I'm just projecting, because if I were them, I'd definitely be riled, but I wouldn't be moving around in a turbulent manner. Might just be me, though.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)HuskyOffset
(890 posts)Thank you for correcting me. I've never seen it used that way before. Would you happen to have a link to any of the many times it's been used that way? Thanks!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)HuskyOffset
(890 posts)there's a lot of roiling going on out there!
Thank you sir, learned my new thing for the day!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)and corrupt. they sicken me.
orangecrush
(19,624 posts)From this.
Now.
Not only do they want to take our healthcare, but just reading about what they do is itself damaging to my health.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)...thoroughly despicable SOB Trump is, and so is everyone who is associated with him or supports him.
A pox on all their houses.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)to include ALL Republicans? They're aiding and abetting the S.O.B. all the way. I think they should all share the "despicable" qualification.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)Sometimes, painting with a broad brush is appropriate
CousinIT
(9,259 posts)...lots of anti-ACA propaganda there, and sends people elsewhere for insurance coverage. Pfft.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...freaking republicans are all going to Hell for ceaselessly pissing on Christ's teachings.
jazzcat23
(176 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)is that most of them don't believe in any of that "Christian stuff", but the proles do. They use it as a method to control the proles.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)even more disturbing than the Trump admin being a passel of blatant crooks is that 36% of Americans are still supporting this cesspool.
I have to keep reminding myself that's in large part due to the diabolically excellent job RW media has done brainwashing them into believing Dems are even worse. But, of course, that's just another awful problem we don't seem to know how to combat.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)guss
(239 posts)Stealing money to increase stocks for big Pharma and gonna pocket it like this guy.
Just a bunch of scumbag Grifters.
Hell has to dig deeper hole for a lower basement for these soulless bastards!!