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LetMyPeopleVote

(176,081 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 01:48 PM Jul 2025

Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work [View all]

These people are nuts

This is how far out of touch these people are ....

Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work www.rawstory.com/brooke-rolli...

🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 (@baron333.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T15:25:37.619Z

https://www.rawstory.com/brooke-rollins-medicaid-farm-workers/

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argued that 34 million "able-bodied adults" who are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits should be expected to take the jobs of migrants on farms.

During a Tuesday press conference, Rollins was asked about President Donald Trump's pledge to give farmers a "pass" when it came to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

"There will be no amnesty," Rollins insisted. "The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly."
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says that "able bodied" Medicaid recipients will replace the farmworkers LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #1
How does someone on Medicaid in Ohio pick doc03 Jul 2025 #2
Concentration camps obamanut2012 Jul 2025 #3
Right. Build private prisons near farming communities. Send prisoners there GoodRaisin Jul 2025 #11
They become migrant farmworkers with no homes to return to -- like Dust Bowl Okies Hekate Jul 2025 #5
People in California would work in California synni Jul 2025 #7
Oh it very much is a problem that can't be dismissed newdeal2 Jul 2025 #8
I think they are going after non-disabled single adults under 65 with no dependents. valleyrogue Jul 2025 #14
Good luck with that. Will they compete with Kennedy to get people with depression and adhd hell Iris Jul 2025 #4
Damn them to well never mind 🤬 Where does she get those figures? Does it include infants? Hekate Jul 2025 #6
there are only TWO million farm workers TOTAL. WarGamer Jul 2025 #9
That woman behind her looks like Sarah Huckabee Sanders ? Hekate Jul 2025 #10
I'm already DOING "farm work" at my own house!! Won't be doing it elsewhere, sorry. Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #12
LOL!!!!!!! valleyrogue Jul 2025 #13
Your mon and dad to the fields first. Show us how it's done, set an example. nt Hotler Jul 2025 #15
Maddow Blog-Agriculture secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace immigrants as farmworkers LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #16
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