WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans made it official: their disgusting abomination of a bill gutting Medicaid, kicking 17 million people off their health insurance, taking food assistance away from millions of Americans, increasing energy bills by hundreds of dollars per year, and increasing the national debt by nearly $4 trillion passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Their regressive, anti-family bill ensures that rural hospitals across the country will close and children, seniors, and veterans will go hungry, all while the ultra-rich get even richer.
In response, Defend America Action Senior Spokesperson Rodericka Applewhaite released the following statement:
“By passing this bill, House Republicans made it official: Donald Trump and his MAGA lackeys will always put billionaires over working families – even at the cost of their own political careers by voting for this politically suicidal tax giveaway to the ultra-wealthy paid for by ripping away Americans’ health care. This disaster of a bill breaks Trump’s promise not to cut Medicaid, kicks eligible, qualified people off the program, rips away food assistance from their own voters, and explodes the deficit, all to give massive tax breaks to the biggest corporations and richest people on the planet. One reason we know just how god-awful this bill is: Republicans are shouting it from the rooftops. They know about the many, many harmful impacts it will have on working families that make this bill both morally wrong and politically disastrous. But while Congressional Republicans continue to enjoy their own low-cost health care from the Office of the Attending Physician, today they’re telling the rest of us to just get over it – and the American people will remember this devastating betrayal.”
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