John,
The House GOP’s forthcoming budget is nothing short of economic warfare against working families. Their plan would cut at least $1 trillion from critical services including $200 billion from Medicaid, gutting healthcare for millions, and $150 billion from food assistance, putting nutrition aid for over 40 million low-income Americans at risk.[1][2] But even those proposed cuts are seemingly not enough for right-wing members of Congress.
Right now, House Republicans are negotiating a budget framework that they hope to unveil this week. The hold up? Some want even deeper cuts in order to pay for a renewal of their tax scam for billionaires and corporations, which will cost taxpayers $5.5 trillion.
This isn’t fiscal responsibility, it’s an upward transfer of wealth from working families to the richest 0.1%.
We know how this story ends. In 2017, Republicans passed Trump’s tax scam for the rich, promising it would pay for itself. Instead, Republicans exploded the deficit by $2 trillion while the wealthy hoarded their windfall tax breaks.
Fight back against this attack on economic fairness. Tell your representative to oppose any budget that slashes services for working families just to fund billionaire tax breaks.
Republicans know their numbers don’t add up―that’s why they’re relying on fantasy math and blatant deception to push this plan through.
This is a calculated strategy to force cuts now and in the future to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and every other public service working people rely on. If they’re successful in passing a renewal of their tax scam, causing the deficit to balloon even further, they’ll demand another round of brutal austerity measures to “fix” the crisis they created.
The bottom line is the House GOP’s budget will shift wealth upward and leave working people with reduced services and a minuscule tax break worth just a cup of coffee a day.
We have to stop this massive upward transfer of wealth now. Tell your representative to oppose any budget that cuts services for working people in order to pay for more tax cuts for the rich and corporations.
Thank you for fighting back,
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] House GOP nears plan for Trump’s agenda — but may not have the votes
[2] Hard-liner rebellion forces House GOP leaders to scramble for deeper cuts
