{"id":9078,"date":"2025-05-11T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-slams-gop-threats-to-medicaid-theyre-robbing-people\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:23:37","slug":"ocasio-cortez-slams-gop-threats-to-medicaid-theyre-robbing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-slams-gop-threats-to-medicaid-theyre-robbing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez slams GOP threats to Medicaid: &#8216;They&#8217;re robbing people&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Republicans for threats to Medicaid funding, arguing they&#8217;re &#8220;robbing people&#8221; to benefit &#8220;the rich.&#8221; She&rsquo;s been a vocal critic of proposed reductions for the program that provides access to healthcare for low-income families and individuals with disabilities. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re robbing people in order to hand it over to the rich,&rdquo; Ocasio-Cortez&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5294120-ocasio-cortez-slams-gop-threats-to-medicaid-theyre-robbing-people\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Republicans for threats to Medicaid funding, arguing they&#8217;re &#8220;robbing people&#8221; to benefit &#8220;the rich.&#8221; She&rsquo;s been a vocal critic of proposed reductions for the program that provides access to healthcare for low-income families and individuals with disabilities. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re robbing people in order to hand it over to the rich,&rdquo; Ocasio-Cortez&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}