House Ways & Means Committee Republicans Hold Closed-Door Meeting to Plot Their Pro-Billionaire Agenda

Washington, D.C. — Today, Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee met behind closed doors to hash out their scheme to give massive tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires and force working families to foot the bill. According to a menu of options released in January, Ways & Means Republicans are planning new tax breaks for billionaires and the biggest corporations, while at the same time considering ending tax credits that help families afford health care, energy, and child care.

Instead of fighting against cost-raising tariffs and drastic staff reductions at the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs, which threaten to disrupt benefits for millions of Americans, Ways & Means Republicans spent all day in back rooms out of view from the public figuring out how to give the ultra-wealthy trillions more in tax breaks, and they are set to hold another closed-door meeting this Wednesday as well. These closed-door meetings come as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed what we already knew – Republicans are putting health care programs working families need on the chopping block to fund another payday for the ultra-wealthy.

“With Americans becoming increasingly concerned about how to provide for their families amid higher prices, Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee are responding by holding an all-day closed-door meeting to plot how they will give more tax breaks to billionaires,” said Unrig Our Economy spokesperson Kobie Christian. “Again and again, Republicans in Congress demonstrate that enacting their pro-billionaire agenda is their top priority. Working- and middle-class Americans need their representatives to fight for them, not sell them out to pad billionaires’ pockets.”

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