GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While ‘Ransacking’ Food Stamps and Medicaid

https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-budget-resolution

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  1. How long until maga realize they’re getting fucked in the ass?

  2. Snippet:

    >”House Republican leadership put a giant bullseye on Medicaid, with the intent to strip Americans of their healthcare benefits to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations.”

    >House Republicans unveiled a [draft budget resolution](https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILLS-119NAih.pdf) on Wednesday that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy while proposing [$2 trillion](https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILLS-119NAih.pdf#page=39&zoom=auto,-13,18) in cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other programs.

    >Lawmakers are set to mark up the House GOP’s budget blueprint on Thursday as Republicans look to craft a sprawling reconciliation bill that can pass both chambers of Congress with a simple-majority vote. Last week, Senate Republicans [released their own](https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/senate-republicans-opaque-budget-resolution-points-in-troubling-direction) budget resolution that proposed significant cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and other spending that benefits working-class families.

    >”Instead of tackling rising prices and delivering relief for American families, House Republicans are charging ahead with trillions of dollars in deeply unpopular tax breaks for billionaires like [Donald Trump](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump) and [Elon Musk](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/elon-musk),” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the [Groundwork Collaborative](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/groundwork-collaborative), said Wednesday in response to the House GOP resolution.

    >”And, they’re paying for their billionaire handouts by ransacking healthcare, food assistance, and other vital programs that American workers and families rely on,” Jacquez added.

    >The new resolution released by the Republican-controlled House Budget Committee specifically calls on the chamber’s energy and commerce panel to “submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than” $880 billion over the next decade. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over Medicaid.

    >The measure also instructs the House Committee on Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over SNAP, to cut no less than $230 billion in spending between fiscal years 2025 and 2034.

  3. For people who pander to christians, they’re *awfully sure* there’s no hell.

  4. I hope the average MAGAt is happy, they voted for this after all.

  5. Is it trickling down yet?

    Is it fucking trickling down yet?

    We have had 40+ years of this horse-and-sparrow economics and so far all we have had to show for it is eating shit in front of obese horses.

    Now they are telling us that the fat horses need to be fed even more than they already are, when many of the rest of us will literally starve for it.

    So when do our tax dollars that we have been handing over to the rich, to make our food more expensive, our housing more expensive, our healthcare more expensive, trickle back down to us?

  6. The Greedy Odious Politicians want to stay in power so they give tax breaks to their rich donors while screwing the rest of us over. Vote them out!

  7. Yeah. It seems they want to completely gut medicaid. By getting rid of medicaid this will effect rural clinics and hospitals, they will end up closing down and I’m sure a ton of elderly will be pushed out of nursing homes. This will create more problems than it will fix. Plus the government gives privatized health insurance more money, why not cut that funding? Getting rid of food stamps will hurt those who depend on them and they may turn to stealing. But for some reason it’s all worth it if the wealthiest can buy their 5th yacht.

  8. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the federal government will be either destroyed or crippled, replaced with a wooden crucifix from the new state religion: Evangelical Protestant Christianity

    MAGA Voters, I Hope you can feed, clothe and shelter yourselves with only a crucifix, Maybe you can use it to pray away your hunger or a sudden windfall of money so you can send your kids to private religious schools after public education is abolished or destroyed

    All the money that was used for those government programs will be given to the people who need it most: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the billionaire oligarch class who will have no taxes while MAGA voters like yourselves will get stuck with the bill and pay more taxes

  10. The Republicans love the plutocrats. They hate the working class.

  11. When is Raygun’s Trickle Down Economics going to kick in?

  12. There it is! The big paycheck for rich people we all knew was coming. The rest of us will get $1000 or so. But this will be a cash grab for corporations and the wealthy.

  13. Hillary chose a really great word for these people.

  14. Magas are pleasuring themselves to this headline, it’s disgusting

  15. Medicaid helped to keep my mom alive during her struggle with Multiple Sclerosis. The GOP are showing they would rather she had died so the money spent on her home health aids could have gone to a billionaire’s luxury yacht instead.

  19. 4.5T in tax cuts (i.e.: lower revenue –which is, actually, spending) vs. 2T in decreed spending (which is, actually, savings).

    Huh!

    Now, I’m not a mathematician, but one of those numbers is not at all like the other.

  21. The bill’s name will be:

    Federal
    Universal
    Congressional
    Kindred
    Tax
    Haven
    Elimination &
    Prevention
    Operational
    Origination
    Revenue
    System

  23. Spoiler alert: they aren’t going to come up with 4.5 trillion dollars in the budget for food stamps and Medicaid. They’re going to have to cut Medicare and Social Security or the DoD. Or just blow up a massive deficit which is usual conservative procedure. Much as they like to tell at the other guys for doing the same thing, they just do it harder…

  24. This bill will drastically worsen the economic and societal conditions of America. It will cause the already serious national debt issue even more precarious, probably reaching $60 trillion within the next decade, causing America’s eventual finanacial bankruptcy. Lower income people will also suffer tremendously, resulting in grave social problems.

    So GOP’s agenda will lead to America’s total crumbling down in the future. GOP is a irresponsible and foolish party judging from the total senselessness of this bill.

  25. The bad guys have won the day. Now we see if Americans really care about freedom or if they will hide from the problem their apathy created. My gut tells me the dictator has won but I hope I’m wrong.

  26. Still waiting for Trump and Paul Ryan’s 2017 tax cuts for the rich to kick in and grow the economy…

  27. Don’t worry, guys. The rich will use this tax cut to raise our wages and lower prices on Amazon. Right?

  28. That’s what they’ve always wanted to do. They’re blatantly evil, yet people keep falling for their BS.

  29. Republicans are the party of “it’s a not a problem until it happens to me”. So until they are literally staring down the barrel of their own decisions in the comfort of their living room and their life is about to be altered forever, it’s just them “owning the libs”

  30. Don’t forget, this isn’t just Trump single-handedly deciding this stuff. This isn’t Elon reaching over his shoulder, writing these plans up.

    And this isn’t what the GOP wants you to remember once Trump inevitably exits the picture, and another one of their stooges grabs the reins. Decisions like this – ones that reward the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the rest of America – are *exactly what the GOP embodies.*

  31. For a country so strong in its cultural defense of the 2nd amendment, where are it’s citizens?

  32. Is literally anyone surprised? Republicans have long established they only have one real objective, funnel as much money as possible to the wealthy. Everything else is either a smoke screen, or is some social bullshit to convince morons to vote for them.

  33. And increasing debt ceiling by $4 trillion. That’s no coincidence.

  35. Why not no? Why isnt anyone saying NO!? Why do rich people that are already rich need MORE tax cuts at the expense of our country? YOU ARE ALREADY RICH, HOW ABOUT NO.

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