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Hearing Highlights: Republicans Side With Billionaires Over Working Americans

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee doubled down on their commitment to corporate tax giveaways, ignoring growing concerns that such cuts would sabotage economic growth and slash funding for critical programs like SNAP and Medicaid.
If asked to choose between healthcare and food for low-income kids or tax cuts for giant corporations, Chairman Jason Smith and the Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee are proving that ten times out of ten, they’ll choose the corporate giants. American families are set up to lose because President-Elect Trump and his Congressional allies are eager to raise our costs in order to help their wealthy donor friends.”
Accountable.US Executive Director Tony Carrk.
HEARING HIGHLIGHTS
- .@RepRichardNeal is right. Congressional Republicans are standing up for the strongest and wealthiest, all at OUR expense. We need relief from the 2017 Trump tax code, not more of it. [LINK]
- .@amprog’s Brendan Duke put it bluntly: Extending the Trump tax cuts costs $4.2T, with $2.4T going to the top 2%. That’s as much as proposed cuts to Medicaid & ACA. Higher interest rates and program cuts aren’t a “free lunch”—they’re the bill working families are stuck with. [LINK]
- .@RepThompson: The Trump tax cuts weren’t for working families—they were for the rich. Millionaires got tax breaks 300x bigger than someone making $50K. And now, extending them could add $5T to the debt. Fiscal responsibility? Hardly. [LINK]
- .@RepLindaSanchez: Under Trump’s signature tax scam, “working families only get the crumbs.” Instead, it’s billionaires and wealthy corporations reaping nearly ALL the benefits. [LINK]
- President-Elect Trump and his allies in Congress want to pay for BIG tax cuts for wealthy corporations by slashing funding for healthcare and climate change while raising your costs through tariffs. @RepDelBene is calling them out. [LINK]