Senate Republicans insisted on a strict work requirement in final Medicaid expansion deal. They're banking on Trump win and roll back Biden admin's rules barring work requirements.

But:

'... there is no precedent for that kind of approval from either a Biden or a Trump CMS.'

Editorial: There is one thing the Declaration of Secession makes abundantly clear: slavery is the prominent reason Mississippi seceded.

On Confederate Memorial Day, here's an honest annotation of the secession document.

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It’s that time again.

Quick-draw, literally, from Marshall Ramsey ✏️.

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Update: After this group left notes on Blackwell’s door yesterday, the staircase down to his office (and many other legislative offices) is blocked by this new sign today.

Update: After a group of physicians and concerned citizens visited Sen. Kevin Blackwell’s office in the basement of the Capitol yesterday to advocate for full expand Medicaid, the basement entrance has a brand new sign barring the public from reaching those offices.

This is a story of good, old-fashioned political engagement.

If you don't like what your elected officials are doing (or not doing), show up at their office. If they don't come to the door, find another way to get to them. Stay involved. Tell your story.

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A new school funding formula has been approved by the Legislature that, like the long-standing Mississippi Adequate Education Program, will rely on an objective mechanism to determine how much state funding is needed to operate schools.

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Just spoke with Kathleen O'Beirne, a Ridgeland resident who's at the Capitol today advocating for Medicaid expansion while legislative leaders are not communicating and are struggling to reach a compromise.

This building needs a lot more Kathleens.

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Group of physicians & concerned citizens at the Capitol today advocating for full Medicaid expansion.

Sen. Kevin Blackwell, Republican Medicaid chairman, is dug in deep on a work requirement, which would effectively kill the plan.

Here's Blackwell's office door this morning.

National studies and experts in Medicaid expansion states refute concerns voiced in Mississippi’s legislative conference committee that costs to the state would exceed projections.

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Medicaid expansion opponents want you to believe Republican senators will never vote to fully expand. Bullshit.

There's absolutely room for true debate and compromise in that caucus. They do it all the time.

Logic and life experience wins the day.

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'I will never understand why Mississippi politicians of late have decided we should not expand — turning down millions ... our state desperately needs because of politics while we’re all still paying into a system that’s funding states that did expand.”

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