May 22, 2025

The House Budget Passed in the Wee Hours

 Promises

  • Empty stomachs for millions of kids and seniors thanks to the largest cuts to food assistance (e.g. SNAP) in US history
  • Higher home electric bills driven by huge cuts to clean energy investments that fund most new power sources
  • Runaway college costs and bigger student loans caused by billions of dollars being cut from loan, loan forgiveness, and Pell Grant programs
  • More challenges to holding Trump accountable after Republicans slipped in a one-sentence provision that would make it extremely difficult for courts to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for violating court orders
  • 10,000 new ICE agents at a time the agency is arresting political opponents, defying court orders, and deporting US citizens
  • New attacks on the trans community as Republicans inserted a last-minute change banning Medicaid from covering gender affirming care
  • Tax breaks for people buying gun silencers (“Who asked for this? The assassin lobby?” asked one Democratic lawmaker)
  • Millions of patients denied cancer screenings and reproductive care due to the defunding of Planned Parenthood and banning of abortion coverage under ACA insurance plans
  • Hospital layoffs, service cuts, and closures thanks to historic cuts to vital healthcare funding
  • 14 million people kicked off their healthcare due to major cuts and restrictions on Medicaid and other healthcare programs, like the Affordable Care Act
  • If any of this infuriates you,
    join us June 14 on 
    No Kings Day

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