Tlaib Slams Passage of Trump’s Big Budget Betrayal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) released the following statement after voting NO on the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1:

“This bill is an act of violence against our communities. At a time of extreme income and wealth inequality, while 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, this budget is absolutely devastating for the working families we represent. Trump’s big budget betrayal will kick 17 million Americans off their health care, including over 450,000 people in Michigan, by making the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for saying the people losing their health care will just ‘get over it’ because ‘we’re all going to die.’ They are responsible for the over 50,000 people who will die unnecessarily every year because of this deadly budget.

“What’s even more disgusting is that all of this is being done to give billionaires and massive corporations trillions of dollars in tax breaks. This bill is the largest transfer of wealth from poor and working people to the billionaire class. It is a gift to Trump’s billionaire donors. To pay for it, Republicans are literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids by cutting billions of dollars in nutrition assistance. And the same lawmakers who claim that we don’t have the money to feed hungry children or make sure people in our communities have the health care they need have no problem voting to send an additional $150 billion to weapons manufacturers and endless war and $170 billion to masked agents terrorizing our communities and illegally disappearing our neighbors for profit. Every member who voted to pass this disastrous budget betrayed the people they represent to serve the rich and powerful and deserves to be voted out of office.”

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