Hunger Games Budget Would Cut Mainers' Healthcare to Give More Tax Cuts to Billionaires

This Budget Rewards the Rich & Punishes the Working Class

Late Tuesday night the US House of Representatives passed a GOP Budget Resolution, along party lines (217-215), which starts a process and sets the stage for deep cuts to Mainers health care to give tax cuts to the rich.

The  US House Republicans’ plan to cut $4.5 trillion in taxes primarily for the wealthy while slashing food assistance and health care for hundreds of thousands of Mainers and millions of working class Americans. Below is a statement from Matt Schlobohm, Executive Director of the Maine AFL-CIO:

“House Republicans voted to move forward with a massive tax give away to the rich paid for by cutting healthcare for working people. Mainers rely on Medicaid to care for our seniors in nursing homes, people with disabilities, children's health insurance and so much more. We should not be cutting healthcare to give tax cuts to the rich.

“This immoral budget plan puts millions of Americans’ jobs at risk in nursing homes, food processing and distribution, hospital and community health care centers and more. It will have profound and deeply harmful impact on our rural economies, affecting every sector.

“It is just plain wrong to take food out of hungry children’s mouths and give it to some of the wealthiest people in the world who have already grown obscenely rich on the backs of working class Americans. We will work to defeat this attack on families, our communities and everyday Mainers who work for a living. We call on every member of Congress to stand with the working people of this country and vote no on future budget votes.”