From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):
Your family’s budget reflects your needs and priorities: food, housing, education, healthcare, and your retirement security.
When Congress passes a budget, it should reflect these same priorities. And yet, the budget that Donald Trump just released makes severe cuts to the programs that working families and older Americans rely on most.
Trump’s budget would cut more than a trillion dollars from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
It would cut more than $200 billion from food stamps alone, and another $1.5 trillion from public schools, highways, medical research, student loans and more.
At the EPI Policy Center we strive to advance an agenda that lifts everyone up. That’s why we’re standing with our partners demanding Congress reject the Trump budget. Instead we must pass a budget that invests in our country’s future―expanding Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; investing in pre-K education and our public schools; providing paid family leave to working families; and more!
Sign the petition to Congress at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-now-stop-trumps-budget-that-steals-from-working-families-to-pay-for-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy rejecting Donald Trump’s budget which would devastate our earned benefits and other critical programs for working families.
The reason that Donald Trump is going back on a key campaign promise―to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid―is that he wants to pay for his $1.5 trillion tax handout, which mostly benefits the richest 1% and wealthy corporations.
These are the same cruel budget priorities advanced by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Tax cuts for the rich and corporations―paid for by cuts to programs for working families.
Together, we’re demanding an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.
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