1. United States
2. Wisc.
3. Letter

The Trump administration's proposed budget legislation to extend tax cuts while slashing $1.5 trillion from spending, including massive cuts to Medicaid, should be firmly rejected. Medicaid provides vital healthcare coverage to over 72 million vulnerable Americans, including children, pregnant women, the poor, and disabled individuals. Cutting this program to pay for tax breaks that disproportionately benefit the wealthy is unconscionable and an attack on our nation's most disadvantaged communities. Recent polling shows widespread opposition to these cuts across party lines, with 68% of voters in battleground districts calling it a bad idea to reduce Medicaid benefits to fund tax reductions. Even 44% of Republicans recognize the harm such draconian cuts would cause. Cloaking these drastic reductions under the guise of eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" is disingenuous rhetoric that cannot obscure the devastating real-world impacts. I urge you to stand firm against any legislation that compromises healthcare access for millions through crippling reductions to Medicaid funding. Protecting essential social safety net programs that uplift our most vulnerable citizens must take precedence over further enriching the already wealthy through permanent tax giveaways. The moral choice is clear - Medicaid must be preserved, not sacrificed on the altar of tax cuts for the privileged few.