Instead of devastating cuts to critical programs, we need a budget that invests in our country’s future.
Friend,
Donald Trump may have run on a promise to defend Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But his latest budget breaks that promise with cuts that hurt seniors, low-income families, and people with disabilities.
Trump’s newly released budget would:
Make deep cuts to Medicaid, threatening the health security of millions;
Call for $135 billion in cuts to Medicare prescription drug coverage, with no guarantees these cuts would not harm beneficiaries;
Cut Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), harming people who are unable to work due to disabilities;
Cut education funding through privatization of K-12, encourage states to roll back health and safety protections for children in exchange for one-time child care funding, and reduce student financial aid for college by $170 billion over ten years, harming children of all ages and young adults;
Weaken worker safety protections including an 11% budget cut to the Department of Labor, putting big business ahead of working people;
Cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), threatening the food security of hungry children.
And why is Trump proposing such devastating cuts to critical services for seniors and working families? To extend his tax handouts to the wealthy—increasing them from $1.9 trillion over 10 years to $3.1 trillion over 13 years. And greatly increasing military spending on new hypersonic and nuclear weapons.
The EPI Policy Center is providing our allies with the data and research to fight back against Donald Trump’s budget proposal that’s dangerous to working families across the country. With your help, we will stop these cruel budget cuts from ever becoming law.
But that’s not all! Trump’s budget proposal also contains cuts to affordable housing, infrastructure, environmental protection and more.
Instead of devastating cuts to critical programs, we need a budget that invests in our country’s future. One that improves the economic well-being of low-and middle-income families by making investments that will generate good jobs, expanding public investments in affordable college and child care; and one that protects and expands social insurance programs and uses government purchasing power to lower health care costs.
The EPI Policy Center provides the research behind our movement for progressive economic change. We’re fighting back against attacks on our earned benefits and against protections for working- and low-income families.
