In today’s Feelgood Friday edition of the Keystone newsletter: 🥞 Pa.’s best diner is ??? 🎸 Remembering the day Philly rocked the world 💎 :Yinzers unite to find a lost diamond 🛍️ ACME employee retires after 61 years on the...
Purchasing health insurance through Pennie, the commonwealth’s health care marketplace, is about to get a lot more expensive and harder to obtain thanks to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Republicans failed to extend tax credits for state-run health care marketplaces, which expire at the end of 2025. Nearly half a million Pennsylvanians use Pennie, and 200,000 are at risk under Trump’s new policies.
✏️/📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #Harrisburg #Pittsburgh #EriePa #Scranton #DonaldTrump #Republicans #MedicaidCuts #Medicaid
US House Republicans might have fled Washington DC to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein Files, but that didn’t stop Congresswoman Summer Lee (D-Allegheny) from forcing the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement to approve a subpoena for the Epstein Files.
Lee’s amendment calls for the Department of Justice to release the full and unredacted Epstein Files to the House Oversight Committee, and it passed by an 8-2 margin with US Rep. Scott Perry (R-York) voting in favor.
“We are one step closer to justice for victims of Jeffery Epstein’s crimes and those of his accomplices,” Lee said in a statement. “We cannot claim to be protecting children while allowing powerful people connected to Epstein to hide in the shadows. They are not above the law.
✏️: Sean Kitchen
🎥: MSNBC
#Pennsylvania #Pittsburgh #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DonaldTrump
“Pennsylvanians got screwed in this.”
That's how Gov. Josh Shapiro put it when describing President Donald Trump's budget cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
According to the governor’s office, over 310,000 Pennsylvanians may lose Medicaid coverage, while 144,000 are at risk of losing access to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
An additional 270,000 Pennsylvanians, who receive their health insurance through Pennie, the state’s official healthcare marketplace, could lose coverage because Trump’s budget bill does extend tax credits that were provided by the previous administration, according to the Republican Herald.
✏️/📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #PAPolitics #PANews #PAPol #DonaldTrump #JoshShapiro
Pennsylvania resident Thomas Reilly is high-functioning autistic and relies on Medicaid for health insurance and other benefits, including the provision of a Direct Support Professional (DSP), John Deboard.
Deboard supports Thomas in daily life tasks, including grocery shopping, laundry, and going to the gym.
Thomas’ benefits could be at risk if President Trump’s budget bill is signed into law, and so could John’s job.
Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyd2Oxa7Y38
Thomas and other Pennsylvanians who rely on Medicaid are at risk of losing care and support if Republicans pass their budget bill that would cut Medicaid funding by somewhere between $700 billion and $1 trillion.
Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyd2Oxa7Y38
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Pennsylvania has 67 counties, but you only have to name 12 of them in this week’s Keystone crossword. Good luck!
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