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While House extremists are holding up efforts to pass spending bills and avert a government shutdown, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) has introduced a budget that gives us a frightening vision of what right-wing extremists want our country to look like.
The proposed budget aims to balance the federal budget in 10 years, but it does so via $5.4 trillion in cuts to essential human needs programs over those 10 years. These cuts include:1
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$400 billion in cuts to Medicare providers
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$2 trillion in cuts to mandatory health spending—which is largely drastic cuts to Medicaid
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Instituting Medicaid work reporting requirements
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$1 trillion in cuts to economic security programs, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF)
These cuts would have catastrophic consequences for millions of families across the country. We cannot allow an extreme minority to continue to inflict suffering on vulnerable communities. Chip in $5 today to help us fight back against these cruel attacks.
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While extremists in the House Republican Caucus are planning to make families suffer even more at a time when cuts they backed caused poverty to rise, they’re demanding an extension of the Trump tax cuts from 2017, which are nothing more than a handout for the wealthy and major corporations.
If Congress renews the Trump tax cuts for the ultra-rich, the top 0.1%—with incomes over $4.5 million a year—would get, on average, a tax cut of $175,000 in the first year alone while households making less than $50,000 would get about 50 cents a day.2 This is neither sustainable or just. And it’s definitely not a way to move our country forward with many struggling to make ends meet.
Donate $5 today to fight back against extreme cuts to critical human needs programs.
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Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Spoiling For Shutdown: Republicans Restart Budget Calendar
2 Cbo Finds Republican Tax Plan Would Add Trillions To National Debt; Make Working Families Pay For It By Slashing Their Services
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