Washington, D.C. – Senate Republicans in the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees unveiled a $72 billion reconciliation package that includes nearly $40 billion for ICE and $1 billion for Trump’s ballroom.
This reconciliation package comes on the heels of Republicans in Congress gutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations — causing health care costs to soar, hospitals and nursing homes to shutter, and hard-working Americans to face impossible decisions between paying for their medications or putting food on the table. Despite voters consistently ranking health care affordability as their top economic concern, Republicans in Congress bulldozed the American health care system, are stonewalling a resolution House Democrats passed to lower health care costs, and are pretending not to hear the economic concerns of their own constituents.
In response, Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse released the following statement:
“What a sick joke. Last year, Republicans slashed over $1 trillion in health care to pay for tax breaks for billionaires, and now they are lining up to hand over billions more to fund Trump’s gold-plated ballroom and his rogue and violent ICE. Good luck with that at the ballot box in November.”
