House Budget Resolution is Daylight Robbery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House Budget Committee today marked up a budget resolution to tee up their reconciliation bill. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement while the markup was still underway:
“With many of the 2017 Trump tax cuts expiring at the end of 2025, Republicans are trying to shower their donors with tax giveaways that the wealthy do not deserve or need. The House Republican budget would take away our health care to pay for more than $4 trillion in tax giveaways to their billionaire and big corporate donors. It’s daylight robbery dressed up as tax reform, and it’s going to kill and sicken millions of Americans.
“Billionaires already have more money than they know what to do with – they don’t need more. Tax giveaways from corrupt politicians to greedy billionaires and CEOs have never raised wages, brought down prices, or created jobs. We grow our economy by making sure working people and families have what they need. All we have to do is defeat this corrupt boondoggle of a bill, and the tax code will automatically become fairer, more equal, and better for all of us.”