PRC Considers Cuts As Cost Of Illegal Alien Healthcare Is Way Over Estimates

By William Teach March 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

I wonder where the People’s Republik Of California will do cuts? Will they start spending the money on actual American citizen residents of California, or cut elsewhere so they can keep helping illegals and fake asylum seekers?

Cost of undocumented healthcare in California is billions over estimates, pressuring Democrats to consider cuts

Americans before illegalsGov. JB Pritzker proposed a $330-million budget cut last month to scale back an expansion of healthcare coverage for undocumented adult immigrants in Illinois, where a state audit found that services for certain age groups exceeded estimates by more than 280%.

California soon may face the same financial pressure to reduce coverage.

California became the first state in the nation to offer healthcare to all income-eligible immigrants one year ago, which gave Gov. Gavin Newsom another liberal achievement to tout when lauding the Golden State as a national trailblazer.

But the $9.5-billion price tag of California’s program is already more than $3 billion above the budget estimate from last summer and is expected to grow even higher. In Sacramento, the governor and Democrats in the state Legislature now are under pressure to reduce coverage to bring down costs during a budget crunch.

How many homeless could be helped with that currently $9.5 billion? How many many Americans in California could be helped by lowering their own health care costs? How about helping the lower income folks with food and aid? How about implementing constant measures to do things that reduce wildfires?

Obviously, with Trump and Elon Derangement Syndrome running rampant through the LA Times, they spend a bunch of paragraphs whining. Then

The scale of the funding reduction to Medicaid is still unknown and it’s impossible to project the severity of the cuts for California with any certainty. Republicans in the House have suggested cutting $880 billion across the federal government, a significant portion of which would have to come from Medicaid.

“If you pull $10 billion out of California healthcare annually, that’s a lot of dough and that’s going to have very serious impacts that would ripple across every sector of the healthcare delivery system from hospitals, physicians, home care, nursing homes and to services that millions depend on,” said David Panush, a healthcare policy consultant who worked in the state Capitol for decades, about potential federal cuts.

Well, don’t spend on illegals. Use it for American citizens in the PRC. Besides, how much of the cuts is simply removing fraud, waste, and abuse from the allocation? Where the money has to be used for the intended purpose, rather than being turned into a slush fund and such?

Absent federal cuts, California’s financial footing already was so shaky that Newsom proposed taking $7.1 billion from the state’s rainy day fund, which acts like a savings account to buffer the budget during an economic crisis, to cover the cost of state programs next year. DeMaio has argued the state wouldn’t need to break open its piggy bank if Democrats cut healthcare for undocumented immigrants.

It’s not actually raining: it’s more like you turned all the faucets on upstairs, stopped the sinks and tubs up, and then went to work, and are shocked that water is dropping down into the first floor. You did this.

Newsom grew the Medi-Cal coverage pool to include all income-eligible immigrants in California under a multiyear expansion by age categories that began in 2020 and concluded in 2024.

But the program has been plagued by cost overruns since it started.

“Cost overruns.” To the tune of $3.1 billion to help out illegals. How much is mismanagement and fraud, etc? How much is going into the pockets of NGOs, campaign donors, etc, and never helped? A slush fund? How about auditing the program? But, hey, Californian’s who voted Democrat need to not complain if the cuts hit themselves, or if taxes go up, because they voted for this.

ICE should not bother with California at this time. Clear the illegals out of states that voted for Trump, leave them in Blue states for the time being. Let them deal with the consequences of supporting unfettered illegal immigration.

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Bummer: Bill Gates Funded Climate (scam) Group Cuts Staff

By William Teach March 14, 2025 – 7:15 am

But, but, but, if the planet is Doomed unless we Do Something, this shouldn’t happen

Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat

electric vehicleBreakthrough Energy, an umbrella organization funded by Bill Gates that works on a sprawling range of climate issues, announced deep cuts to its operations in an internal memo on Tuesday.

Dozens of staff members were cut, including Breakthrough Energy’s unit in Europe, its team in the United States working on public policy issues and most of its employees working on partnerships with other climate organizations, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The change shows how Mr. Gates is retooling his empire for the Trump era. With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, Mr. Gates calculated that the Breakthrough policy team in the United States was not likely to have a significant effect in Washington, said the people familiar with his thinking. The U.S. policy team was also one of the largest and most expensive parts of the organization.

So, why not talk directly to people, and entice them to change their own lives to match the needs of Saving The Planet? Was it more about getting Los Federales to force the peasants to live a certain life?

Instead of trying to influence policy, Mr. Gates is now focused on building clean energy companies through the Breakthrough Energy Catalyst program, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the Breakthrough Energy Fellows, the people familiar with the matter said. Those efforts, which fund start-up companies and entrepreneurs working on a range of renewable technologies, were not affected by the cuts.

Companies, but, not actually building “clean energy”?

But on climate change, Mr. Gates has not been as outspoken. Like other billionaires and chief executives who once spoke up loudly about climate change, Mr. Gates went silent in the face of Mr. Trump’s early efforts to reduce federal support for clean energy, promote fossil fuels and dismantle the government programs aimed at addressing climate change.

So, it was really just climavirtue signalling, not any sort of real belief. Like most of the Elites. They talk the talk, do not walk the walk.

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Schumer Basically Surrenders, Will Vote For Funding The Government

By William Teach March 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

If only we could get a real budget, and one that cuts spending, first by cutting waste, fraud, and idiocy. Politico has it like this

Democrats should back away from shutdown, Schumer says

Back away, eh? The HuffPost says it more succinctly

Chuck Schumer Will Vote To Advance GOP Funding Bill, Signaling Surrender

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Thursday that he would vote to advance Republican legislation funding the government, likely easing the way for the bill’s passage as early as Friday.

“While the [continuing resolution] is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. “Allowing Donald Trump to take even more power is a far worse option.”

“Under a shutdown, Trump and Elon Musk would have carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now,” he added.

The New York Democrat did not urge other Democrats to vote for the bill, but it was a clear signal for his colleagues to hold their noses and vote to avert a shutdown.

Say what you will about Chuck, he’s not an idiot, and he knows that, after bloviating and stuff for a few days, Americans will blame Democrats for a shutdown, and, yeah, Trump and DOGE will have more power to do their thing. And the headline at the NY Times says

Trump Administration Live Updates: Schumer Says Enough Democrats Will Vote to Avert Government Shutdown

All they have to do is vote to end cloture, get their 60 votes, and then none of them have to actually vote for the CR.

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EPA Head Drives A Dagger Into Climate Scam And Extreme-Enviro Regulations

By William Teach March 13, 2025 – 3:24 pm

But, before that, let’s see the latest uber-scaremongering from the cult

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth. Soon it will mess up its orbit

Sounds scary, right? And the UK Independent is depending on the old maxim that you need 30 seconds or 3 paragraphs to get your point across. The whole article is actually about the “study” that low earth orbit is shrinking, which I mentioned the other day. The headline makes it seem as if the orbit around the Sun will be messed up. Scumbags in the news media

Trump’s EPA Chief Says He Just Drove ‘Dagger’ Through Climate Change Rules

Calling it the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history,” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a sweeping rollback of landmark environmental regulations on Wednesday, targeting rules on coal-fired power plant pollution, climate change policies, and electric vehicles. (snip)

Zeldin wrote about his deregulation efforts in an essay for The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday afternoon.

“We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” Zeldin wrote.

Too bad he didn’t call it a doomsday cult, but, that he called it a religion makes me smile

The Trump administration’s efforts will eliminate trillions in regulatory costs and “hidden taxes,” Zeldin said, lowering the cost of living for American families by reducing expenses on essentials like buying a car, heating a home, and running a business.

“Our actions will also reignite American manufacturing, spreading economic benefits to communities,” he added.

I suspect most of the non-climate scam environmental regulations are just regulations for regulations sake. Things that do not actually help the environment, but, keep the EPA employees busy and let them throw their weight around.

He pointed to regulations such as the Clean Power Plan, which established carbon emissions limits for coal power plants, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and Particulate Matter 2.5 levels as policies the EPA is “reconsidering” under his watch.

The EPA is also working to end Good Neighbor Plan emission requirements, implemented by the Biden administration to reduce ozone-forming emissions of nitrogen oxides.

“Energy dominance stands at the center of America’s resurgence. By reconsidering rules that throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants, we are ensuring that American energy remains clean, affordable, and reliable,” Zeldin wrote.

Those rules do virtually nothing except empower bureaucrats and raise costs for consumers. I mean, the Supreme Court already shot the Clean Power Plan down, though, the EPA kept trying to enforce it. Next up they need to wack the EV mandate/

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are fruits that will soon be trash because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on feds wasting manpower and money on moonbattery.

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Johnson Must Consider “Unconstitutional” Vote By Proxy For New Mothers Bill

By William Teach March 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

It seems to make common sense, right? A member of Congress has a baby and they cannot come to the floor to vote for a period of time, so, why not allow proxies?

Johnson weighs options after ‘stubborn’ Luna forces vote on ‘unconstitutional’ parental proxy voting

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is weighing his options after a bipartisan group led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) garnered enough support to force a floor vote on legislation to allow proxy voting for new parents — an idea the Speaker called “unconstitutional.”

A discharge petition to force a floor vote on Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-Colo.) bill to allow proxy voting for new parents hit the minimum 218 signatures needed Tuesday, setting the stage for the legislation to come to the floor.

Pettersen gave birth to a son in January and brought him to the Capitol for two high-profile votes in recent weeks. Luna had a son in 2023, months into her first term in the House.

Asked by The Hill on Wednesday about the successful discharge petition effort, Johnson — who is known to oppose proxy voting and previously filed a brief with the Supreme Court against the practice — said he is against the idea.

“I’m afraid the whole thing is unconstitutional,” Johnson said in the Capitol. “I’ve tried to discuss this with Anna, and she’s pretty stubborn about it, so we’ll see what happens. But I’m not in favor of it. I filed a brief to the United States Supreme Court explaining that proxy voting is clearly unconstitutional so, you know, I have a real concern about it.”

If he allows the vote to go through, and this is very much bipartisan for support (I’m surprised there wasn’t more support), he’s also concerned that this would cause proxy voting for other reasons. Got the flu. Busted an ankle. Hey, what about doing video calls? They could set a tablet up for individual, or, how about a big screen where those out for real reasons, not because Survivor or a hockey game is on, can Zoom in.

Unfortunately, The Hill fails to explain why Johnson says it is unconstitutional. Nor do any of the other articles. Google being Google, I’m having a tough time finding what Johnson may have stated previously on the subject, it’s page after page of the above issue or unrelated information. Except this, which I found on page 12

Federal judge says House’s use of proxy voting to pass spending bill in 2022 unconstitutional

A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that the US House of Representatives violated the Constitution in how it used proxy voting to pass a major spending bill in late 2022.

US District Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled that the House violated the Constitution’s Quorum Clause when it did not have enough representatives physically present for a vote on the legislation and instead passed it by allowing lawmakers to vote by proxy, using a voting protocol that was put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The Court concludes that, by including members who were indisputably absent in the quorum count, the Act at issue passed in violation of the Constitution’s Quorum Clause,” wrote Hendrix, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.

And that’s the heart of it. All those votes taken during COVID where people were not there were unconstutitonal Article I Section 5

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

And what is a quorum?

the minimum number of officers or members of a body that is required to be present at a given meeting (as to transact business)

Most definitions are identical. It means people who are present. So, does this mean physically, or, could a Zoom call or similar count? That is the question. Proxy voting would be 100% out of the question. Some say quorum means physically present. Others say that that the rules could be modified to include video calls. There was a law passed in 1890 which said it was a quorum of those physically present, then a Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin, which also determined that it was those physically present. But, the House and Senate can determine rules for being present, so, could it be stretched to mean a video call? I’d like to say yes, but, they would have to pass the rules to only apply to certain situations.

I wonder if Johnson has considered this with video calls? I wonder if he has considered running it up through a federal court, or asking the advice of the Supreme Court?

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Bummer: Trump Admin Considering Closing Climate Doom Observatory In Hawaii

By William Teach March 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

Hey, it’s their own fault for using a tiny increase in CO2 as a political weapon, for being part of a cult

Trump cuts target world-leading greenhouse gas observatory in Hawaii

The Trump administration is considering cancelling the lease of the support office for a renowned Hawaiian climate research station, sources said, raising fears for the future of key work tracking the impact of carbon emissions on global warming.

The office is one of more than 20 rented by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that are proposed to have their leases ended under money-saving efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Elon Musk.

The online listing on the DOGE website mentions an NOAA office in Hilo, Hawaii and an estimate of how much would be saved by cancelling its lease – $150,692 a year.

Staff, researchers and other sources gave details on the building’s role as the main support office for the Mauna Loa Observatory about 50 km (30 miles) west of the town.

The observatory, established in 1956 on the northern flank of the Mauna Loa volcano, is recognised as the birthplace of global carbon dioxide monitoring and maintains the world’s longest record of measurements of atmospheric CO2.

How many buildings are being used for this? How many employees are employed to track what requires one?

“It would be terrible if this office was closed,” atmospheric scientist Marc Alessi, a fellow with the Union of Concerned Scientists advocacy group, said.

“Not only does it provide the measurement of CO2 that we so desperately need to track climate change, but it also informs climate model simulations.”

The simulations that keep failing?

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Bummer: HUD Secretary Puts The Kibosh On DEI Plan In Asheville, NC

By William Teach March 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

I actually heard this on the news breaks Wednesday, as well as the late morning brief on Spectrum News. It’s a good thing

Liberal North Carolina city’s DEI plan for hurricane relief shut down by HUD secretary

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner shut down a hurricane relief draft plan put forth by the city of Asheville, North Carolina, that included a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiative that would have prioritized some residents over others, his office said.

“Once again, let me be clear, DEI is dead at HUD,” Turner said of axing the plan. “We will not provide funding to any program or grantee that does not comply with President Trump’s executive orders.”

“HUD looks forward to helping thousands of North Carolinians rebuild after Hurricane Helene by directing funding assistance to impacted businesses, nonprofit organizations and neighborhoods,” Turner added. “However, Asheville’s draft action plan incorporated DEI criteria to prioritize some impacted residents over others, which was unacceptable. After HUD informed Asheville that its plan was unsatisfactory and it would not be approved, the city assured us that it was updating its draft action plan to be compliant.”

Asheville is about as liberal as you’re going to get in North Carolina. Nice place to visit. Great scenery, funky attitude. But, definitely full of moonbats

The city of Asheville detailed under a section in its draft plan titled “How Programs Will Support Vulnerable Populations” that minority- and women-owned businesses would be prioritized for assistance.

“Within the Small Business Support Program, the City will prioritize assistance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBE) within the scoring criteria outlined within the policies and procedures,” reads the draft plan, which was reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Asheville is also, as you’d expect in a wholly Democrat run city, crime ridden. Neighborhood Scout ranks it a 2, meaning it is safer than 2% of American cities. That’s bad. Lots of assault, thefts, burglaries, and car thefts. It’s also uber-white, with 78%, and only 10% black and 6% Hispanic. So, why a focus on “minorities”? How about helping everyone? Of course, if the uber-white liberals want to give their aid up to the minorities, have at it.

Democratic Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer said in comments provided to Fox News Digital that the city was “working closely with HUD as we continue to navigate the changing compliance requirements of the new administration.”

“We are grateful for the administration’s support in our recovery efforts,” Manheimer continued. “The City will ensure it meets current federal standards in order to facilitate approval of critically needed funding to help the city recover from the devastation of Tropical Storm Helene.”

In other words, they capitulate, and removed the above section as well as other DEI. Don’t think for a moment they won’t try and backdoor it.

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Large Swatch Of Amazon Cut Down To Make Ready For COP30 In Brazil

By William Teach March 12, 2025 – 3:27 pm

Nothing says “we’re totally concerned with ‘climate change’ and it is totally not about Elites trying to be Authoritarians” like this

Amazon Forest Cleared for Road to Carry Globalist Elites to Climate Summit

A new four-lane highway requiring the decimation of tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built to carry globalist elites to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

The BBC reports the aim is to ease vehicle traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the U.N. sponsored conference in November.

COP30 will also see the usual thousands of attendees flying in for the occasion.

Critics are quick to point out the sheer hypocrisy of this deforestation as it contradicts the claimed purpose of a climate summit. The BBC report notes:

Along the partially built road, lush rainforest towers on either side – a reminder of what was once there. Logs are piled high in the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles) through the rainforest into Belém.

Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.

So, COP29 in 2024 was held in the petro-state of Azerbaijan, for which the roughly 40k people attending had to fly or drive in using a fossil fueled vehicle. Taking the train was mostly out of the question, and, even try to take an EV would have been impossible. COP28 was also in the petro-state of Dubai. COP27 was held in Egypt, in the luxury resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. And people had to take lots of fossil fueled trips. Now we have Brazil, for which tens of thousands will take a fossil fueled trip, mostly planes.

Belem has inter-city rail, but, no connections to cities outside of the Belem. But, it does have an international airport. Will any of the climate nuts take sailing vessels to the ports? How many of the private jets will need to be deadheaded (flying without passengers) to other airports in Brazil?

Adler Silveira, the state government’s infrastructure secretary, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to “prepare” and “modernise” it, so “we can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way”.

Speaking to the BBC, he said it was a “sustainable highway” and an “important mobility intervention.”

Yes, cutting down thousands of acres of jungle is definitely sustainable. From that BBC article

Claudio Verequete lives about 200m from where the road will be. He used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from trees that once occupied the space.

“Everything was destroyed,” he says, gesturing at the clearing.

“Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.”

He says he has received no compensation from the state government and is currently relying on savings.

They are not concerned with the climate. Or the little people.

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If All Yous See…

By William Teach March 12, 2025 – 2:03 pm

…is the need to have an umbrella due to the much more dangerous Sun from ‘climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on a problem meeting a solution.

Just went back to the gym for the first time since last Tuesday, and realized how many exercises I cannot do because they involve strength of ankle and balance. That I cannot stress the ankle too much. Also, for you older folks, how we’ve learned to just take the time, do not rush it.

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