After I wrote to my Republican Senator, here is what she said.

    

I told her it was ridiculous for a Monetarily Sovereign nation, that has the infinite ability to create dollars and save the lives of its residents, to cut spending on healthcare.

In fact, such a nation should, and easily could, fund a comprehensive, no-deductible Medicare plan for every American of all ages.

Here is her response.

January 7, 2026

Dear Mr. Mitchell:     Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts regarding health care and the health care system in the United States.

Understanding your perspective helps me to better represent Florida in the United States Senate, and I appreciate being given this opportunity to respond.      

The United States stands at the forefront of global innovation and cutting-edge technologies in health care products, services, and treatments.

American innovation has pushed the boundaries of science and delivered lifesaving therapies and treatments that were unbelievable just decades ago, and for this I am incredibly grateful.

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I’m just going to fire people, wildly. That ought to improve government services. Trump and I are rich. We don’t care what happens to those families or to you.

Nice words about history. Now explain why Republican President Trump has cut research massively.

We are faced, however, with rapidly increasing health care costs. In 2023 alone, America’s national health expenditures reached $4.9 trillion and accounted for over 17% of our country’s gross domestic product.

Which means the Federal government could do things at no cost to anyone:

  1. Fund free healthcare insurance for all
  2. Fund research and development of everything medical: Pharmaceuticals, medical personnel, and medical devices.

Instead, the Republicans are doing the opposite, thus making healthcare more expensive and less available for all.

The sheer size and complexity of the American health care system and the evolving health needs of our citizenry present unique issues. Floridians are rightly worried about the never-ending rise in costs and premiums.

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I’m fighting for your health, exactly the way Mr. Trump told me to: By cutting healthcare insurance.

Which cutting Obamacare only will exacerbate.

The last thing someone should worry about if they are sick or injured is going broke and being in debt for the rest of their lives. 

So, the solution, which Republicans have been promising for the past 12 years, is . . . ?

What it is, is easily solved. Free, comprehensive Medicare for every man, woman, and child in America.

I know how important it is for Floridians to have access to health care, including medications, at affordable prices.

You don’t act like you know.

During my time as Attorney General, I saw that the practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which act as intermediaries between pharmacies, drug manufacturers, health insurance plans and consumers, were contributing to skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs.

I took action to address the harmful practices of  PBMs and advocated for stronger PBM oversight and regulation.

Got it. You’re blameless. The fault lies with the PRMs, which do not need to exist if there were a free, comprehensive Medicare-for-all plan.

I also fought to protect the public from scammers who exploited our health care system. Through the work of my Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and Senior Protection Team, we recovered millions of dollars and prosecuted individuals attempting to steal critical health care benefits.

How wonderful. You “fought” to recover millions of dollars from the economy for the federal government. How about fighting to save millions of dollars for the people?

The federal government doesn’t need the millions of dollars. It creates all it needs simply by voting and pressing computer keys. 

The people need the dollars. In fact, your fight to save the federal government money actually takes dollars out of the economy.

In real terms, you are fighting for a recession, which is what taking dollars out of the economy does.

As your United States Senator, I will continue to fight for greater quality and accessibility in the American health care system. 

More “fighting”? When will you stop your phony fighting and do some real saving for the people? Being an MZT (MAGA Zombie for Trump) does nothing for your constituents.

     As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, I have the honor and privilege of working with my Senate colleagues to address issues related to our nation’s health. I will be certain to keep your thoughts in mind as the Committee considers health care-related matters and as such matters come to the Senate floor for a vote.

Thank you, Senator Moody. May your next fight be a real one, an unsuccessful fight to retain your Senate seat.

 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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Learn whether you qualify as a MAGA

Learn whether you qualify as a MAGA:

Donald Trump’s description:  “It was a loving crowd, too, by the way. There was a lot of love… I’ve heard that from everybody. Many, many have told me that it was a loving crowd.”

If you believe him, you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump called those whom he pardoned “people who love our country.

If you believe him, you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump said the rioters had been treated “unbelievably poorly.”

If you believe him, you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump referred to the defendants who were pardoned as hostages,” claiming they had been unfairly imprisoned.

If you believe him, you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump said “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.

Trump tweets: 'I concede nothing'

If you believe him, you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump and his campaign supporters have been routinely defeated in court.

“Judges have denied or dismissed dozens of cases backed by Trump and his allies, who have pushed unsupported charges of widespread fraud in battleground states,” said a Jan. 7 Fox News report.

If, despite 62 out of 63 Democrat and Republican judges tossing Trump’s claims out of court, you still believe the election was rigged, then you qualify as a MAGA.Fact check: How many Americans think Biden stole the 2020 US election from  Trump?

If you think there is nothing wrong with a President spouting the unsupported, paranoid idiocy that 82% of Americans believe the 2020  election was rigged, then indeed you qualify as a MAGA.

Trump’s Venezuela invasion has exposed one of his biggest lies

by Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

There was a time, not long ago, when people would claim with a straight face that Donald Trump was a populist who prioritized the interests of working-class Americans and avoided stupid foreign wars.

“Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars,” then-Sen. J.D. Vance crowed in 2023. As Trump assembled his second-term national security team in 2024, Republican Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, claimed to be “amazed by the Trump Cabinet” and the president’s rejection of “warmongers.”

A mere two months ago, one of those Cabinet officials, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, told a conference in Bahrain that Trump had ended the “counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation building” that has defined U.S. foreign policy for decades.

If you believe that “not starting wars” is a good thing, but starting a war with Venezuela also is a good thing, then you come in at the top of your class in the MAGA world.

But there is even more for MAGAs to love.

Despite Trump’s boasts that he doesn’t take a salary for being President, and that the Presidency is costing him money:

The Trump family has raked in an astonishing $3.4 billion over his two presidencies

Thanks to Trump’s two presidencies, the family has made $2.37 billion from cryptocurrency; $339.6 million from financial ventures; $270.8 million from hospitality; $116 million from media; and $277.7 million across other sources, including his private jet, legal fees and merchandise.

And none of this includes the $2 Billion (!) Jared Kushner’s private equity firm received from the sovereign wealth fund controlled by Saudi Prince Mohammed. 

Trump’s biggest lie about the economy: ‘I inherited a mess’ By Ned Barnett, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025

President Donald Trump’s contentious speech on the economy Dec. 17 contained his usual exaggerations and falsehoods, but his most prominent lie was one that too many have come to accept as truth.

Trump opened his remarks with it. Speaking of the nation’s economy, he said: “Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess.

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No, he didn’t. Trump inherited a strong and improving economy, and he has made a mess of it.

Trump campaigned as if the economy were in a free fall that only he could reverse.

In a speech in August 2024, he said, “Vote Trump and your incomes will soar, your savings will grow, young people will be able to afford a home, and we will bring back the American dream bigger, better and stronger than ever before.”

That’s not what happened. Instead, Trump imposed sweeping, disruptive and inflation-fueling tariffs.

He has taken a draconian approach to immigration that is depriving businesses of workers.

His cuts in university research grants are slowing scientific progress and hurting regional economies.

“If it weren’t for the tariffs, you would be seeing inflation settling lower,” said Gerald Cohen, chief economist with the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The economy Trump inherited looked pretty strong going into the beginning of the year.” 

And the crackdown on immigration, he said, “is definitely having an effect. One reason the unemployment rate isn’t higher is that the labor force is shrinking.”

Once you see through Trump’s fog of false claims and his incessant blaming of Biden, it’s clear that the economy would be quite strong if he had done nothing.

There would be no new tariffs. No Elon Musk eviscerating the federal workforce. No cutoff of research grants. No sharp reduction in legal immigration and no roundups of undocumented immigrants who have no criminal record. No stopping renewable energy projects.

And soon it will get worse.

The sharp hike in health insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act will hit tomorrow. Coming cuts in Medicaid and food assistance under Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will increase the number of uninsured people, threaten rural hospitals, strain state budgets and overwhelm food banks.

And finally, there is this hint that the worst outrages are yet to come:

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“I won’t say cancel the election; they should cancel the election.”

Trump Floats Cancelling Election, Then Insists He Won’t Nik Popli Tue, January 6, 2026

President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of canceling future U.S. elections, elevating a longstanding concern among critics of how he might try to limit threats to his power in his second term.

Trump brought up the idea while speaking to House Republicans at their annual retreat, and then quickly insisted he was not calling for such a move, casting his remarks as a critique of Democrats rather than a proposal.

“They have the worst policy,” he said in his remarks at the Kennedy Center to about 70 House Republicans. “How we have to even run against these people—I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election, because the fake news would say, ‘He wants the elections canceled.’

“He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator.”

Only Trump has suggested canceling the election.

He has introduced this topic to gauge public reaction. If the response from his supporters, the MAGA base, is positive, or at least not overwhelmingly negative, Trump will bring it up repeatedly (accompanied by denials) until it becomes less shocking and appears more feasible to execute.

If you like the costly tariffs, Gestapo-like roundups of innocent, brown-skinned people (valuable workers), the research cuts, a return to massive inflation, the return to environment-destroying fossil energy, unaffordable healthcare insurance, and the incessant lying, lying, lying, then you can wave your confederate flag, vote to be ruled by a king, and proudly call yourself a MAGA.

Until the elections are cancelled and dictator Trump’s Gestapo (aka ICE) comes for you just because . . . 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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Only a nation of fools would give tax breaks to religion while discouraging science and education.

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Do you remember this? MAGAs don’t.

Do you remember the Iraq War? Do you remember George Bush’s:

“regime change”?

How soon MAGAs forget the lies that led to the Iraqi war as we now illegally attempt regime change in Venezuela — from a dictator, Nicolás Maduro, to another dictator, Delcy Rodríguez.

She was his second in command, who previously had been sanctioned by the U.S. for corruption and rights abuses. What will this latest Republican fiasco cost America?

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The reincarnation of George Bush II

THE IRAQI WAR COSTS

U.S. military deaths: 4,600. US wounded: 32,000. U.S financial cost: $2-$3 trillion. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed. al-Qaeda emerged in Iraq, and later ISIS, with more killing. U.S. loss of world reputation.

Result: Unstable Iraq. Big winner: Iran, the former enemy of Iraq
Still believers: Republicans

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THE VENEZUELAN WAR COSTS

An unknown number of U.S. and other nations’ dead and wounded.

Tacit approval of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other expansionist actions. Tacit approval of China’s upcoming attack on Taiwan. Further loss of U.S. reputation. Tacit approval of democratic election denial in Venezuela and the U.S.

More costs are coming.

 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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Research cancelled: The invisible loss

 

Only a nation of fools gives tax breaks to religion while discouraging science and education.

Ten years ago, I told you Donald Trump is a proven psychopath. (See “Will Our Next President Be A Psychopath?” and “A Psychopath Slipped Into the White House.“). A psychopath is someone who is callous, unemotional, and morally depraved,

Trump scored almost “perfectly” on the Hare Text for Psychopathy. Although this test should be administered by clinical psychologists, the fact that every measure seems to apply to Trump is telling.

Trump as a caveman looking puzzled at a stone wheel. He is sitting on a rock.
What’s the good of this thing?

The criteria for psychopathy suggest that Trump has no emotional constraints. In short, he does not give a damn about people, and he especially doesn’t give a damn about the very people who support him most, the pitiful MAGAs who unknowingly voted against their own well-being.

The Hare Test for Psychopathy

            1. glibness
            2. superficial charm
            3. grandiose sense of self-worth
            4. need for stimulation
            5. proneness to boredom
            6. pathological lying
            7. conning/manipulation
            8. lack of remorse
            9. lack of guilt
            10. Shallow emotions 
            11. callousness
            12. lack of empathy
            13. parasitic lifestyle
            14. promiscuous sexual behavior
            15. early behavior problems
            16. lack of realistic, long-term goals
            17. impulsivity
            18. failure to accept responsibility
            19. many short-term marital relationships
            20. juvenile delinquency and criminal versatility

It is sad that too many Americans either didn’t believe me or didn’t care, because Trumpist America has become much worse than even I imagined.

But being a psychopath may be the least of Trump’s faults. Specifically, he is:

          1. Amoral
          2. Anti-science
          3. Anti-education
          4. Anti-gay
          5. Anti-black, brown, red, and yellow
          6. Pro-authoritarian
          7. Anti-democracy
          8. Un-Christian and anti-non-Christian
          9. Anti-immigrant
          10. Anti-law and justice
          11. Pro-rich and anti-poor
          12. Anti-truth

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In this post, we’ll discuss Trump’s “anti-science” and the real effects on our lives. Science begins with research. Without research, there can be no science, and without science, there can be no human progress. 

Because Trump is completely self-absorbed and is concerned only with immediate effects, he has no comprehension of the importance of research. He acts as though saving federal money today is far more important than saving the future.

Sadly, MAGAs agree, though saving money for a Monetarily Sovereign government has zero value (our Monetarily Sovereign government has infinite dollars), while cutting scientific research is disastrous.

Trump is aware that he is likely to live no more than another decade or two, and he seems largely unconcerned about what will happen after that—except perhaps for his legacy.

This attitude may explain why someone with limited intelligence, who is often dismissive of art, culture, history, and intellectual values, has attached his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (even as he destroys funding from public radio, a primary broadcaster of the performing arts).

It’s an irony of which he appears ignorant.

Additionally, the administration also put Trump’s name on the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, another federal institution originally established by Congress. It is not known if this was in anticipation of his illegal bombing of Venezuelan boats on the international high seas, without Congressional approval.

While he cuts research because it’s an invisible loss — no one knows or can prove what will be lost — he cuddles up to right-wing, poorly educated, because they have the votes. Trump’s mindless cuts will impact your life, and as he is a psychopath, he doesn’t care.

Trump’s Research Cuts & Cancellations by Subject Area

(Mainly in 2025)

I.  Health & Biomedical Research

  1. Health disparities research
  2. Alzheimer’s disease in Black and Latino populations
  3. Maternal mortality
  4. Sickle-cell disease studies
  5. HIV/AIDS research (200+ HIV-related grants, including prevention and treatment trials)
  6. LGBTQ+ health research
  7. Mental health, suicide prevention, and substance-use studies
  8. Community-based opioid and alcohol-use interventions
  9. Behavioral & social determinants of health
  10. Nutrition access, housing instability, stress-related disease
  11. CDC surveillance programs
  12. Disease-tracking capacity
  13. Data publication and advisory committee activity
  14. COVID-19 research, long-COVID studies defunded or paused
  15. Vaccine-effectiveness follow-ups canceled
  16. Cancer-incidence studies
  17. Respiratory-disease monitoring
  18. Neurological effects of toxic exposure

II. Climate & Environmental Science

  1. Climate Assessment (6th National Climate Assessment is mandated by law, making this especially controversial).
  2. Funding for the assessment was eliminated
  3. Website temporarily removed
  4. Research coordination halted
  5. EPA & NOAA Research
  6. Climate-modeling programs scaled back
  7. Air-quality and pollution-impact studies defunded
  8. Environmental justice research eliminated
  9. Sea-level-rise modeling and coastal-resilience projects paused

III. Social Science & Education Research
NSF — Social, Behavioral, Economic Sciences, 400+ grants frozen or canceled, including:

  1. Misinformation and disinformation research
  2. Voting behavior and democratic resilience
  3. Online extremism studies
  4. Social media impact on youth mental health
  5. STEM-education equity research–Universities reported dozens of active grants terminated mid-project
  6. Education Research — Department of Education:
    • Longitudinal student-outcome studies
    • Special-education effectiveness research
    • Teacher-training program evaluations

IV. Global Health & International Research

  1. USAID & Global Trials
  2. Malaria Vaccine Development Program — Clinical trials halted, Field sites shut down
  3. HIV prevention research abroad
  4. PEPFAR-linked (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) research was disrupted
  5. Maternal health and nutrition trials
  6. Africa and Southeast Asia projects frozen

V. Basic Science & High-Risk Research
(NIH & NSF) Cuts to:

  1. High-risk / high-reward exploratory grants
  2. Early-career investigator programs
  3. Interdisciplinary research initiatives

VI. Institutional & Structural Research Impacts
(University Research Systems). Federal funding freezes at:

  1. Harvard
  2. University of Maryland
  3. University of Arizona
  4. Labs shut down mid-experiment
  5. Graduate students and postdocs laid of
  6. Tens to hundreds of millions in frozen funding per institution
  7. Cuts disproportionately targeted research that is:
    • Population-based rather than molecular
    • Preventive rather than curative
    • Climate- or environment-related
    • Social, behavioral, or systemic
    • International or cooperative
    • Equity-focused or demographic-specific

VII. Basic Science & High-Risk Research — 
Reductions in High-Risk / High-Reward Studies

  1. NIH “high-risk, high-reward” grants decreased from 406 in 2024 to 364 in 2025 due to shifts in NIH funding priorities and changing award patterns. These grants aim to support innovative, potentially groundbreaking research rather than incremental studies.
  2. Fewer cancer, Alzheimer’s, and HIV research projects are being funded
  3. NASA: Proposed cuts of roughly 24% overall, with science programs facing nearly 50% reductions and the cancellation of major missions, jeopardizing U.S. leadership in space science.
  4. Fewer grants for exploratory, foundational science are being issued. Because such “blue sky” work often lacks immediate commercial payoff, private sources rarely fill the gap. Consequently, cutting these awards effectively ends many programs.
  5. Less diversity in the range of scientific questions supported.
  6. Cuts to Early-Career and Training Funding: The NIH awarded 896 fewer new early-career grants (for undergraduates, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers) in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the previous period. This represents a significant reduction in support for the next generation of researchers.
  7. The number of NIH transition grants awarded to postdoctoral researchers decreased by 172 during the same period, representing a reduction of about 10%. This decline is significant because early-career and training awards are crucial for nurturing new scientific talent, supporting innovative ideas, and strengthening the future research workforce. Reducing these grants not only withdraws funding from individual laboratories but also creates structural barriers to entering scientific careers.
  8. Department of Health & Human Services: A structural overhaul of HHS that would merge agencies into a newly created Administration for a Healthy America, while seeking to reduce the workforce by tens of thousands and divert programs.

The official excuse given for all these harmful cuts is to “eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.” This lie should be obvious to anyone who favors democracy over authoritarianism. 

Among the earliest of the dismissals, Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general from across federal agencies just days into his second term. 

These independent watchdogs oversee waste, fraud, and abuse. Under the Inspector General Act of 1978, which former President Jimmy Carter signed into law following the Watergate scandal, the President is required to notify Congress at least 30 days before dismissing an inspector general with “substantive, case-specific” reasons for removing them.

The last thing Trump cares about is federal waste, fraud, and abuse. He cares solely about Trump. So he fires inspectors who could impede his personal aspirations.

Case in point:

“A Treasury Inspector General report found that 11,443 IRS workers either received probationary termination notices or voluntarily accepted separation programs in early 2025 — about 11% of the agency’s total workforce at that point.”

It seems Trump and his affluent associates prefer a limited IRS workforce to avoid uncovering any potential tax evasion that might have been managed by their high-powered accountants.

Overall, Trump’s cuts follow this pattern: 

  1. Target science, research, and public health agencies
  2. Reduce oversight and watchdog functions
  3. Shrink the education, cultural, and civic support
  4. Undermine preparedness and emergency response

In summary, Trump has cut research and science agencies, public health, regulatory enforcement, independent oversight bodies, climate research, NIH, NSF, CDC, education federal offices, and many social programs. 

True to his dictatorial tendencies, he has strengthened national security, increased military power, and fostered anti-immigration sentiments, including those law enforcement actions that fail to address his family’s illegal activities while imprisoning the rest of us.

Thus, Trump and his MAGA base are turning America into a police state of ignorance, where no one has the power or even the understanding to oppose him. Unfortunately, research doesn’t vote, but a lack of research votes against the future.

 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Monetary Sovereignty

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