The House GOP passed their crappy budget. Now comes the hard part
House Republicans on Tuesday night passed the budget blueprint that directs House committees to find $2 trillion in spending cuts in order to just partly pay for the $4.8 trillion in President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans.
The budget gives top-line numbers that Republicans want specific House committees to cut to get to that $2 trillion in spending reductions. And that will be a difficult task since the cuts will likely target popular programs like Medicaid and food stamps, which tens of millions of Americans rely on to stay healthy and put food on the table for their families.
“The quick math on the House budget shows a stark equation: The cost of extending tax cuts for households with incomes in the top 1%—$1.1 trillion through 2034—equals roughly the same amount as the proposed potential cuts for health coverage under Medicaid and food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” Sharon Parrot, president of the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, wrote in a blog post.
“Under what set of values does a budget target those who struggle to pay their bills for severe cuts, while giving an annual tax cut averaging $62,000 for those who make $743,000 or more a year?” she continued. “The tax cut for these wealthy households is greater than the annual family incomes for most of the 72 million people—1 in 5 people in the U.S.—who have health coverage through Medicaid.”
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