Let's Get to the Skinny of it...

Is anyone actually even bothering to bring up the notion to fix the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?  All we hear is repeal and replace, but not "lets get together and fix it to our liking."    I watched the debate at Capitol Hill about the "Skinny" repeal on the ACA.  The Senator from Wyoming, Mike Enzi, operated an "anti-filibuster" in which he is rambling on about the ACA with no real significance, taking long pauses, and not yielding any questions from Democrats (if you remember, the GOP has all but shut out the Democrats from reading the healthcare bill).   Enzi knows he has 40-plus minutes to the Democrats) to speak on the floor and all he is doing purposely making sure that the Democrats will have barely any time to read the bill.  He even ran out of things to say about the ACA and proceeded with other nonsense.

Enzi--as nation's health care system is on line--now discussing Segways. And how a guy got to a cocktail party on a wheelchair

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) July 28, 2017

The Budget

To look at the proposed budget click here.

Chances are, if you are a social studies teachers like myself you probably have read most of the proposed budget brought forth by President Trump.  There are considerable changes to the budget compared to previous years of course, but what makes Trump's budget stand out is the high amount of reductions to most departments and the dramatic increases to others.

If you want to check out the Vlogbrothers' video explaining the budget check it out here!