Congressional Republicans Plot to Cut Benefits and Raise Costs On Arizonans to Fund Tax Breaks for The Wealthy at Florida Retreat
PHOENIX — The House Republican caucus, which includes Congressmen David Schweikert and Juan Ciscomani, spent much of the last week at a retreat in Florida to discuss ways to cut health care and other critical benefits for working Arizonans to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations.
According to ABC News:
The Trump administration and new Republican majority in Congress have big plans to extend tax cuts and crack down on immigration. To pay for these changes, they're in the market to cut government spending by trillions of dollars, and government-assisted health care programs are among their first targets. Earlier this month, a House Budget Committee memo and detailed list, both obtained by Politico, laid out potential budget cuts, including savings of up to $2.3 trillion from funding for Medicaid, the government program that provides health insurance for low-income adults and children; and an additional $1 trillion or so in other cuts from Medicare, the equivalent federal program for older adults, and other health care-related programs.
“Congressmen Schweikert and Ciscomani claim to be looking out for working Arizonans, but last weekHouse Republicans’ had a closed-door retreat where they schemed to find ways to raise costs on Arizonans just to give tax breaks for those at the top,” said Andrea Moreno, Executive Director of Honest Arizona. “At a time when costs keep rising, working class Arizonans need Schweikert and Ciscomani to stand up to their caucus and defend the benefits they rely on instead of giving tax breaks to massive corporations and billionaires.”
Republicans in Congress spent the week looking for cuts to health care and other critical services to extend the 2017 GOP Tax Law:
The richest 1 percent will get an average tax cut worth more than the entire after-tax income of a typical middle-income American household
Republicans have proposed slashing SNAP, the nutrition assistance program that 923,400 Arizonans rely on to put food on the table
A 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico—as well as a 10% tariff on Chinese imports—have been announced by the administration to pay for the tax plan would raise the price of gas, groceries, and other essential goods for Arizonans
Arizonans can find out more about the GOP Tax Law HERE.
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