Day 101: Deal with a devil

Ugh. This first one has me furious.

• Birds of a feather flock together. And so Trump has invited the President of the Philippines to visit. For those out of the loop, this is the guy who's been encouraging extrajudicial killings in his own country. America is truly forfeiting its stance on human rights abuses with this President. Of course Trump and this guy get along so well, they freaking egg each other on the whole time.
• A deal has apparently been struck to keep the government lights on through September. I'm not entirely sure what the details of the bargain are, but I'll take this as a positive thing, particularly so given that Trump's wall was not funded.
• Trump continues trying to undermine Obamacare. Apparently the federal government supplies a slush fund to states to help cover hospital charges for the uninsured poor. Obama argued that this was stupid, and we would do much better to expand medicaid to cover those people who would then get better healthcare and wouldn't end up in the hospital with expensive conditions. Trump argues the opposite - that poor people don't deserve health insurance, and should just stiff the hospital when they get sick. This is so stupid.