Attention now shifts to the House, which is expected to vote next week on House Republicans’ own misguided budget plan: an extreme giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of families who already have a hard time affording food, health care & college.
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House R leaders are reportedly telling members not to worry about the deep cuts it contains bc passing it is just a 1st step toward budget legislation. But the budget plan sets the “rules of the road” & once that course is set, it is very hard to change. https://x.com/ParrottCBPP/status/1892658183111430239
That course would raise families’ health care, food, & college costs, increase the nation’s economic risks, take health coverage away from millions & worsen poverty & hardship for tens of millions of people, while doubling down on huge tax giveaways for the wealthy & corporations.
We know this because it directs the committees w/ jurisdiction over health coverage through Medicaid, food assistance through SNAP, & student loans & school meals to make massive cuts to offset some of the cost of massive tax cuts assigned to the Ways and Means Committee.
The amounts that the committee are directed to cut are minimums or “floors” – meaning they must cut at least that amount and may cut more, but they cannot cut less. And a change made in the House budget committee makes deeper cuts more likely. https://x.com/jacsamoby/status/1891909112998346947
And these aren’t just numbers. The loss of Medicaid means, for example, a parent can’t get cancer treatment, and a young adult can’t get insulin to control their diabetes.
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