IPS Researchers Warn the GOP Budget Will Slash Health Care for Billionaire Tax Cuts

Right now, people across the country are demanding that our government puts our communities’ needs before corporate greed. IPS and the Economic Policy Institute proudly provided research support for a timely new report by Repairers of the Breach that spotlights how Trump and the GOP are cutting programs that help poor and low-income Americans to spend more on the war machine, mass deportations, and tax breaks for the wealthy. 

The key findings from the report are featured in coverage in Democracy Now!, Common Dreams, Sacramento Observer, and Augusta Free Press , among other national and local and state outlets.

IPS experts also shared their takeaways on how proposed cuts will harm millions of poor and low-income American families in several radio interviews, including:

1. On March 12, Karen Dolan talked to WORT FM about a moral budget: “We and faith leaders across the country believe that such a document, such a budget, such a moral agenda should stand against systemic racism; should stand against labor exploitation; should stand against poverty, xenophobia, and any attempt to promote hate against any member of the human family.”
2. On the same day, she warned Colorado News Connection / Public News Service about the GOP proposal’s Medicaid cuts: “The proposal could result in a loss of coverage for 36 million people. In Colorado alone, there’s over a million enrollees in Medicaid.”
3. On March 14, Lindsay Koshgarian joined the This Is Hell! podcast to discuss the high moral stakes of the budget. She warns, “They can’t enact their mass deportation agenda unless they have money. They’re going to take money away from Medicaid and this is where they want to put it: they want to put it into lower taxes for the wealthy and corporations and into enacting their mass deportation agenda, which is not something that helps ordinary people.”
4. Also on March 14, Karen Dolan emphasized on the KFPA Talkies program that budgets are moral documents: “None of this is partisan, necessarily — this is human. This is a moral battle and a legal battle of the civil rights, the human rights, the civil liberties, the expressions of values that our budget and our policies, and our U.S. Constitution express. These are an expression of values. So, they shouldn’t be partisan issues.”