- On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution that would extend the disastrous tax giveaways to the ultra-rich and instruct the House Energy and Commerce Committee to slash $880 billion in spending on vital programs working people depend upon.
- This committee oversees the funds for critical services that workers and the most vulnerable among us rely on, like Medicaid, Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). And despite what supporters of these extremist cuts say, it’s impossible to carve out $880 billion without touching health care.
- More than 72 million people rely on Medicaid, and these proposed cuts directly take away care from grandparents in nursing homes and premature babies in the NICU.
- Make no mistake: This is a giveaway to billionaires like Elon Musk, raiding the critical safety net programs that exist to help us all.
- This budget resolution is an attack on the jobs, families and communities of everyday Americans. And the labor movement refuses to stand idly by. We’re built for hard moments and are ready to fight back.
- Working people must have a voice. If you haven’t already joined the Department of People Who Work for a Living, you can go to deptofpeoplewhowork.org to stay up to date on the latest information there.
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