{"id":1051669,"date":"2025-02-25T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051669"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:08:33","slug":"house-gop-barely-advances-trumps-billionaire-budget-to-gut-health-care-for-kids-and-seniors-give-handouts-to-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-gop-barely-advances-trumps-billionaire-budget-to-gut-health-care-for-kids-and-seniors-give-handouts-to-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP (Barely) Advances Trump\u2019s Billionaire Budget to Gut Health Care for Kids and Seniors, Give Handouts to the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to House Republicans moving forward with their disastrous budget resolution that puts working families last, <\/em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho does the Republican Party care about? Clearly not working families. Donald Trump and House Republicans just voted to move forward with a budget resolution that could rip away health care from 22 million Americans and will make life harder for kids, seniors, and people just trying to make ends meet. Trump is taking money out of the pockets of families who need it to prepare massive tax handouts to billionaires. If just two more House Republicans grew a spine they could put a stop to this corruption.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Republicans (barely) pushed through their disastrous funding agenda, putting health care on the chopping block to fund Trump\u2019s tax handouts to the ultra wealthy. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Sherman, Punchbowl News<\/a>: \u201cTHE HOUSE GOP BUDGET RESOLUTION has passed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVote was 217-215.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cSpeaker Mike Johnson said Monday that he isn\u2019t planning to make any changes to his budget plan to placate Republicans concerned about possible Medicaid cuts. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe budget blueprint sets out a minimum of $880 billion in cuts from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and a group of vulnerable House Republicans is arguing that the bulk of those reductions will have to come out of Medicaid given that the panel has virtually no other options to make cuts of that magnitude.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cHouse Republicans hunting for ways to pay for President Trump\u2019s tax cuts have called for cutting the federal government\u2019s share of Medicaid spending, including a proposal that would effectively gut the Affordable Care Act\u2019s 2014 expansion of the program. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA move to lower federal spending on the Medicaid expansion population could effectively gut the program. <\/strong>Around 10 states that have expanded their programs have so-called trigger laws that reverse the Medicaid expansion if the federal government decreases funding for the population. \u2026 More than 21 million adults who were not eligible for Medicaid under pre-expansion guidelines received coverage last year.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump \u2013 and House Republicans \u2013 have repeatedly proposed gutting Medicaid to pay for their billionaire tax handouts, even as this program serves <\/strong>79 million<\/strong><\/a> Americans, including many families in rural communities. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Ferris<\/a>: \u201cHouse budget plan is out. Besides 2 years of debt limit + $4.5T in tax cuts<\/strong> and $200B in border, there’s BIG news for fiscal hawks <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt calls for $2T in *mandatory* cuts, aka Medicaid\u201d<\/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

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\u2019 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

Republicans\u2019 budget plan also targets SNAP cuts, which would prevent millions of Americans from putting food on the table. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cHouse GOP budget plan targets deep SNAP cuts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the new plan to be marked up by the House Budget Committee on Thursday contains instructions for the Agriculture Committee to slash $230 billion across programs under its purview, meaning work requirements and changes to state waivers alone won’t reach that target number, said the lawmakers with knowledge about the ongoing talks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cMillions of Low-Income Households Would Lose Food Aid Under Proposed House Republican SNAP Cuts\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe budget resolution that the House plans to take up this week directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut programs in its jurisdiction by at least $230 billion through 2034, with these cuts expected to come largely or entirely from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and to be used to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest business owners and households.\u201d<\/strong><\/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 House Republicans moving forward with their disastrous budget resolution that puts working families last, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement: \u201cWho does the Republican Party care about? Clearly not working families. 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