House Republicans propose devastating cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to (partially) pay for upper-class tax cuts
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There will be so much economic populism that you will get tired of the economic populism:
House Republicans released a budget resolution Wednesday that calls for cutting taxes by up to $4.5 trillion and sets a goal of slashing federal spending by $2 trillion.
The blueprint comes one day before the House Budget Committee is scheduled to consider it. If it’s approved by the panel and the full House chamber, the Republicans can get started on crafting a massive party-line bill to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.
On immigration and border security funding, a top Trump priority, the resolution grants the Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration policy, $110 billion.
That’s less than the Senate budget resolution, which grants the Judiciary Committee $175 billion for immigration enforcement.
The resolution also would raise the debt limit by $4 trillion ahead of an expected deadline later this year for Congress to act or risk an economically calamitous default on the country’s obligations.
It adds that the “goal of this concurrent resolution to reduce mandatory spending by $2 trillion” — referring to the part of the U.S. budget that includes Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP benefits and more.
You know, I don’t think that post-Dobbs pivot to expanding access to healthcare is going to happen. (Medicaid covers more than 40% of the births that take place in the US annually.) To put it succinctly:
at home and abroad, their whole plan is for everyone to be poorer, sicker, or just plain dead
[image or embed]— Meg Rowley (@megrowler.fangraphs.com) February 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Republican Party’s trend toward authoritarianism was inevitable, because they’re unshakably committed to an economic agenda that is exceptionally unpopular. Trump is just the culmination of a longstanding trend, not a transformative force.