Diane Grimm

Baden, Pa.

Republicans have no idea how ordinary Americans live, and they don’t care.

Look no further than their wildly regressive domestic policy bill–signed into law on, of all days, Independence Day.

The crux of the hugely unpopular bill is tax cuts for the rich. Throwing money at the uber-rich, of course, requires some offsets. Republicans chose to cut services for ordinary folks.

The richest 1% of Americans will receive about $117 billion in tax cuts in 2026. Struggling households, meanwhile, will see incomes DROP by 2.9%!

Almost $1 trillion was cut from federal health programs that many Americans rely on–way beyond waste, fraud and abuse. Long-term health care will be hard to find and afford, so families will become caregivers for ill, aging parents. SNAP benefits will disappear for seven million people, including more than two million children.

Republicans apparently have no problem with taking away insurance from almost 15 million Americans, but they know voters care. That’s why spending cuts don’t kick in until AFTER the midterms (but tax cuts start right away)!

The bill creates many other harms. For example, clean-energy industries lose funding, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, increasing energy costs and damaging the environment.

Giving money to billionaires while cutting care for ordinary Americans is Robin Hood in reverse! The rich get richer while most Americans struggle to get by.

Biblical principles are incompatible with the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in United States history!