$40 Billion could pay for almost 2 years of ACA subsidies.

[applegrove]

— AnaHaze (@anahaze.bsky.social) 2025-10-23T03:06:15.825Z

[Silent Type]

1. Totally agree. But now we've become the ones complaining about foreign aid, though warranted.

The MFer sure has turned this world upside down.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. The entire amount of cuts

to USAID = USD 35 billion.

We're giving that much and more to prop up someone who sucks up to You-Know-Who!

That's not foreign aid. It's a bribe!

[spanone]

2. Argentina First.

[Celerity]

3. Please vet things more carefully. That rando's claims are false.

The US spent $100.3 billion on SNAP in fiscal year 2024 alone. 2 years worth will cost $200 billion plus. Not $40 billion.

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year/country/united-states/

The total cost for changes to the current (post Big Ugly Bill, including re-instating the expired Covid era subsidies) ACA that the Dems are requesting is $662 billion over ten years, or roughly $132.4 billion over 2 years, not $40 billion:

Permanently expand the premium tax credit structure as provided in the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) and later extended through
calendar year 2025 in the 2022 reconciliation act—increasing the
deficit by $350 billion from 2026 to 2035 and the number of people
with health insurance by 3.8 million in 2035,

• Nullify a final rule published in June 2025 by the Department of Health
and Human Services related to the health insurance marketplaces
established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—increasing the deficit by $40 billion from 2026 to 2035 and the number of people with health
insurance by 300,000 in 2035, and,

• Repeal sections in title VII, subtitle B, of the 2025 reconciliation act
related to the health insurance marketplaces—increasing the deficit by
$272 billion from 2026 to 2035 and the number of people with health
insurance by 2.9 million in 2035.

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-09/61734-Health.pdf

The Big Ugly Bill cuts $536 billion from Medicare over the next 9 fiscal years, an average of almost $60 billion per year, not $40 billion:

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/trumps-big-beautiful-for-billionaires-law-triggers-536-billion-cut-to-medicare-over-next-decade/