Washington D.C — Working families are facing sky-high gas prices thanks to Republicans’ war in Iran, nosediving consumer sentiment, and rising health care costs. So, what’s House Speaker Mike Johnson and congressional Republicans’ plan to deal with their self-made economic crisis? If you guessed “they want to cut even more vital programs that help families afford basic necessities” you’re absolutely right.
In a recent interview, Speaker Johnson said that congressional Republicans “have a plan” to make even more cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Perhaps he should share this secret plan with the American people because millions have already seen what congressional Republicans’ cuts can do, and they don’t like it. Speaker Johnson and his Republican colleagues are already leaving millions without health care, including hundreds of thousands of children. They have decimated SNAP, forcing millions to ration their food as grocery prices continue to skyrocket. All to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. But have Republicans in Congress considered undoing these cuts and ending tax breaks for billionaires? Clearly not.
“Americans are already being forced to deal with the devastation that Republican cuts to Medicaid have wrought. Why on earth should working families be forced to sacrifice their health care even more? So that Republicans can dish out even more tax breaks?” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “It is abundantly clear that Republicans in Congress have one trick – cut programs that help American families, and give billionaires more and more tax breaks. The American people have had enough.”
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About Unrig Our Economy
Unrig Our Economy is a national campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. We know that when the middle class does well, all of us do well — which is why we’re fighting on behalf of working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.