Fighting Trump’s ‘Reverse Robin Hood’ Medicaid-Cuts & Tax-Cuts Bill
Last week, House Republicans passed a bill pushed by President Trump that is estimated to kick more than 50,000 Philadelphians off Medicaid health coverage. However, as far as I’m concerned, the fight is not over!
I fought this bill – including its provision to make gun silencers cheaper to buy! – in a nearly 18-hour committee markup that went overnight, and I voted against it repeatedly in the overnight House session where Republicans narrowly passed it. A House Republican 31 years younger than me missed the vote because he fell asleep, but I stayed up to fight for the 26,000 people in my district who would lose Medicaid coverage. I believe that denying health coverage for 259,000 Pennsylvanians will NOT ‘make America healthy again!’
This bill now goes to the Senate, and if they change it (which seems likely), the bill will have to survive another vote in the House. All of that provides more time for Americans to find out details of what I call a ‘Reverse Robin Hood’ bill that would take from the working class while giving the richest another tax cut. So I and my Democratic colleagues are going to KEEP fighting!
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The Trump-Republican bill would pile on work documentation requirements – basically, more paperwork – that would kick millions of Americans off Medicaid. This program is vital for kids, seniors, and many people who are unable to work because of disabilities, illness, school, or serving as a caregiver for children or other relatives. And the Republican cuts to Medicaid and SNAP food aid in the bill roughly equal their $1 trillion in tax cuts for people making over $500,000 per year.
The bill would also force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, which covers nearly 3 million Pennsylvania seniors. I think protecting health care for kids, seniors, and other vulnerable Pennsylvanians - and keeping our hospitals open – are both more important than giving another tax cut to Elon Musk and others who I believe don’t even need it!
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