The following article has been provided by the Democratic National Committee:
Republicans Know the Budget Bill Is a Massive Midterm Liability, but They’re Determined To Vote for It Anyway
- As Republican Senators advanced Trump’s disastrous budget bill over the weekend, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the bill will slash $930 billion from Medicaid, the largest cut in the program’s history.
- Trump’s bill will wreak havoc on working families and cut the programs that their constituents rely on. Here’s how this bill will impact Americans:
- Cuts $1.3 trillion in food assistance and health coverage while giving the wealthy that exact amount in tax breaks
- Rips away health care from 16 million Americans through over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act — including the largest cut to Medicaid in American history
- Puts over 300 rural hospitals at risk of shutting down, ripping away critical, lifesaving care from hundreds of rural communities across the country
- Puts roughly 5 million Americans — about 1 in 8 SNAP participants — at risk of losing food assistance
- Adds $3.25 trillion to the national debt, while revenues fall by $4.47 trillion
- Forces 1 in 4 nursing homes to close their doors
- Puts 1.75 million construction jobs at risk — with unions warning, “this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country”
- Puts 2 million clean energy jobs at risk
- Increases energy bills by hundreds of dollars across the country
- Endangers our communities by making it easier to buy dangerous firearms and silencers
- Recent polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans reject Trump’s plan to rip away health care from working families.
- Even Republicans oppose it by a nearly 3-to-1 margin once they learn what’s in it.