John,
The House just passed one of the most dangerous economic proposals in modern history, a budget that would result in cuts to Medicare, throw 14 million Americans off their health insurance, and wipe out the clean energy tax credits that are finally lowering household utility bills.
This is not how you fix an economy, it’s how you tank it. Medicaid and Medicare cuts of this magnitude would shutter rural hospitals, eliminate care for seniors and disabled people, and leave low-income communities without basic medical services.
The Congressional Budget Office confirms these Medicare cuts would be automatic under congressional budget rules, triggered because the GOP plan adds $2.3 trillion to the deficit.[1] So whether it’s by cutting services directly or triggering cuts by racking up so much debt, Republicans are hurting working families to further enrich the wealthy.
This is economic vandalism disguised as budgeting. A majority of Americans, including Republican voters, oppose cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and energy programs and support making the wealthy pay more in taxes.[2] That’s why House Republicans passed their draconian bill while most of America was sleeping, gutting healthcare while keeping tax loopholes open for their millionaire and billionaire donors.
If we don’t stop this disastrous bill in the Senate, millions will lose health coverage, utility bills will skyrocket, and inequality will increase dramatically.
Tell the Senate to reject this billionaire budget and protect Medicare, healthcare access, and clean energy.
This budget package is a direct assault on working families and it’s being rammed through Congress to protect billionaires who already pay a lower effective tax rate than nurses, firefighters, and teachers when all their income is counted.
The bill eliminates clean energy tax credits that are helping families cut electricity costs and hikes gas prices by 37 cents a gallon, raises electric vehicle costs by thousands of dollars, and eliminates job-creating clean-energy incentives across the country.[3]
The truth is simple: this bill isn’t about saving money. It’s about protecting the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. It gives the richest 400 Americans $800 million in annual tax breaks while families making $51,000 or less will see their after-tax income decline by roughly $700.[4]
At the same time, it denies the full Child Tax Credit to 20 million kids whose families don’t earn enough under the bill’s cruel new rules.[5] This is class warfare from the top down.
The same Republicans who created the Trump tax scam want to make its worst parts permanent, and now they’re trying to pay for it by wrecking your healthcare and hiking your energy bills. They’re hollowing out critical services for working families including Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP to pay for more tax handouts for CEOs and hedge-fund managers.
We can’t keep our hospitals open, our utility bills from skyrocketing, or our healthcare coverage in place unless we fight to make it so. Let’s make sure the Senate hears us.
Tell the Senate: Reject the House-passed bill. Protect Medicare. Protect Medicaid. Protect working families.
Thanks for standing up to defend healthcare and stop this billionaire tax scam.
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts
[2] Voters Do Not Support the GOP Reconciliation Bill’s Tax and Spending Proposals
[3] 7 Ways Republicans’ Sweeping Tax Bill Will Raise Household Costs
[4] G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest
[5] By the Numbers: House Republican Tax Agenda Favors the Wealthy and Leaves Millions of Working Families Behind
