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How does this make sense?
While President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to hand out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires, they plan to pay for them with takeaways from kids, seniors, farmers, small business owners, veterans, and rural Americans. There have also been proposed cuts to school lunch programs, cuts to support for food banks, cuts to purchases from farmers, cuts to rental assistance for seniors, cuts to broadband expansion in rural areas, cuts to weather forecasting, cuts to disaster relief, cuts to national parks, cuts to cancer care and cancer research, cuts to veterans’ healthcare benefits, cuts to prescription drug benefits, cuts to mental health services and addiction recovery support.
There are proposed cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act that would result in roughly 13.7 million people losing their health insurance by 2034, including nearly 51,000 people in Maine. This would lead to higher medical costs and likely cause some rural hospitals to close.
This is what their fast and furious actions would do to us while also increasing inflation, adding nearly $4 trillion to the budget deficit, and downgrading our U.S. credit rating. How does this make sense for everyday Americans?
Valerie Tate
Belfast
