AFSCME’s Saunders: Congress is charging ahead with a plan to shower billionaires with tax breaks at the expense of our communities.

“This language makes it crystal clear: Congressional extremists are charging ahead with a plan to shower billionaires with massive tax breaks at the expense of our communities. Their scheme to further enrich the ultra-rich would substantially gut Medicaid and is expected to rip health care away from more than 13 million individuals, especially low-income workers, seniors and people with disabilities. Instead of making Medicaid more efficient, they plan to add bureaucracy by imposing strict work reporting requirements that will just make it harder for those most vulnerable to access the care they need.

 

“The Medicaid cuts are only the beginning as anti-worker elected officials also plan cuts to food assistance. AFSCME members are watching what happens this week, and we are mobilizing. We’ll be in the halls of Congress and holding events in communities across the country to sound the alarm on how damaging these cuts will be. We won’t stand by while families are robbed of lifesaving public services just to line the pockets of billionaires.”