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In response to Senate Republicans prioritizing billionaire tax handouts over protecting Americans\u2019 health care, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans are telling us exactly who they are and who they\u2019re fighting for. Instead of lowering costs for working families, MAGA Republicans are pushing through Donald Trump\u2019s overwhelmingly unpopular plans<\/a> to gut health care for seniors, kids, and American families already struggling to make ends meet just to pay for a billionaire tax handout. Trump and the GOP\u2019s priorities are clear: Make the rich richer and scam Americans out of their health care coverage.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans refuse to protect Medicaid while vowing to fund Trump\u2019s tax handouts to the ultra wealthy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahil Kapur<\/a>: \u201cChuck Schumer offered an amendment to the Republican budget resolution to prohibit tax cuts for the wealthy if even $1 is cut from Medicaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was rejected 49-51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemocrats unanimously voted YES<\/strong>, joined by Collins and Hawley. Other Republicans voted NO<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed gutting Medicaid, which serves <\/strong>79 million<\/strong><\/a> Americans, including many families in rural communities. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Health News<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans in Washington say they plan to use funding cuts and regulatory changes to dramatically shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that, along with the related Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, serves about 79 million mostly low-income or disabled Americans.<\/strong> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdvocates for poor people fear GOP funding cuts will leave more Americans without insurance, making it harder for them to get care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the GOP\u2019s plans to shrink Medicaid are realized, Democrats and health experts say, low-income people forced to buy private insurance would face challenges paying monthly premiums<\/strong> and the large copayments and deductibles common to commercial plans that typically don\u2019t exist in Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump has made clear that his goal remains to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including its expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults, and to impose rigid caps on the federal government\u2019s Medicaid spending.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his FY18<\/a>, FY19<\/a>, FY20<\/a>, and FY21<\/a> budgets, Trump repeatedly proposed hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cRebuffed by the courts in its previous efforts to gut Medicaid, the Trump administration teed up a new, far-reaching attack on the program that could affect the health of millions of low-income Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgetown University Center for Children and Families<\/a>: \u201cCuts to Medicaid Will Shift Costs to Families, Providers and Will Be Especially Harmful to Rural Communities\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMedicaid covers almost 80 million people in total<\/strong> \u2013 roughly four times as many people as covered by the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces and considerably more than the roughly 48 million seniors covered by Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans’ Medicaid cuts would be a disaster for our seniors, and could \u201cforce retirees out of nursing homes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cMedicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skilled Nursing News<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Devastating\u2019: Medicaid Cuts in Republican Crosshairs, With Nursing Homes Seen as Bearing Major Pain\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Any serious Medicaid cuts will have a major impact on long-term supports and services, broadly defined to include nursing homes, home health and personal care,\u2019 [Brian] Ellsworth told Skilled Nursing News. \u2018Those services comprise over a third of Medicaid spending nationally and would certainly be under the chopping block at the state level if serious cuts were made to Medicaid in Washington.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump\u2019s tax scam gave massive handouts to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working families and created new incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cFor the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post Analysis<\/a>: \u201cOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s lesser-known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.<\/strong> The financial burden that he\u2019s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump\u2019s time in office. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised \u2018America First\u2019 would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In response to Senate Republicans prioritizing billionaire tax handouts over protecting Americans\u2019 health care, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: \u201cSenate Republicans are telling us exactly who they are and who they\u2019re fighting for. 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