Republicans have officially made life more difficult for their rural constituents, and it seems like they’re more than content letting people suffer. They actually celebrated it.

On July 4, Friday, President Donald Trump signed his spending package, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, into law. Now, it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing the consequences of $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over a decade. Of those cuts, there will be an estimated loss of $155 billion in Medicaid funding to rural areas.

“It’s the single worst piece of legislation I’ve seen in my lifetime, and it is a congressional Republican and presidential attack on rural America,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said on CNN, adding that about 200,000 people in his state could lose coverage.

In my home state of North Carolina, Republican Sen.

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