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Reject Attacks on Medicaid to Fund Billionaire Tax Cuts On February 25, by a slim margin of 217-215, House Republicans passedbudget resolution H.Con.Res.14, approving a GOP blueprint to finance Trump’s greedy, punishing agenda. The budget extends tax cuts passed during the first Trump Administration in 2017, including $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. The budget will finance these cuts by making $2 trillion in draconian spending cuts to life-saving social programs, especially Medicaid, and by raising the debt limit by $4 trillion. These budget cuts endanger the lives and financial stability of millions of Americans, and it would have disastrous consequences for the fiscal health of the United States. The Senate has already passed a very different budget resolution, which does not extend the 2017 tax cuts and has smaller cuts to mandatory spending items like Medicaid. For the budget to advance into law, the House and Senate must now develop and agree on a single identical budget resolution. Congress must reject the House’s initial budget resolution, which benefits billionaires at the expense of the social safety net that keeps millions of Americans alive.