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REJECTED:
“Democratic Amendments to FY18 Republican Budget
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by me for an easier reading experience!)
On July 19, 2017, the
House Budget Committee approved the fiscal year 2018 Republican
budget resolution, reflecting a set of values that shows
Congressional Republicans, just like President Trump, favor the
wealthy and well connected over hardworking, everyday Americans.
The resolution undermines
national security by boosting only defense spending while severely
underfunding other components integral to national security including
diplomacy, economic opportunity, and investments in safe and healthy
communities.
The Republican budget
betrays American families, favoring tax breaks for millionaires,
billionaires, and corporations over investing in American workers and
ensuring all families have access to basic standards of living.
The Republican budget guts
investments critical to expanding economic opportunity, ends the
Medicare guarantee, and undermines health care for all while using a
series of budget games and gimmicks to pretend to reach balance in 10
years.
Committee Democrats
offered 28 amendments; each crafted with the goal of reversing the
harmful policies put forth in the Republican budget while supporting
the priorities of the American people. Had the amendments been
adopted, they would protected important investments that help lift
millions out of poverty, increased paychecks for working Americans,
and restored American leadership in the world.
They would have spurred
economic growth through immigration reform and made critical
investments that help our economy grow, including in infrastructure,
education, scientific research, and efforts to combat climate change.
And they would have protected the promises we made to our seniors,
our veterans, and the most vulnerable among us. With these
amendments, Republicans could have shown that they stand on the side
of American workers and American families rather than on the side of
millionaires, billionaires, and corporations.
The amendments offset any
proposed spending or tax breaks for working families by cutting
unproductive special interest tax breaks for the wealthiest and the
well-connected – including closing tax loopholes that allow
inversions and encourage firms to ship jobs and capital overseas and
shelter their profits in foreign tax havens, and egregious tax breaks
such as tax deductions for corporate jets and special tax rates for
hedge fund managers. Yet, Republicans rejected every amendment
offered by the Democrats."
The following is a list of
the 28 Amendments:
Each complete Amendment is linked below...
→ Reject
Trumpcare
→ No Tax Increases for Low-Income and Middle-Class Families
→ Protect
Medicaid for Vulnerable Americans
→ Increase
Austerity-Level Defense and Non-Defense Funding Caps
→ Provide
Funding for Proven Anti-Poverty Programs
→ Prevent
the End of Medicare as We Know It
→ Protect
Women’s Health Care
→ Reject Cuts to America’s
Transportation Infrastructure
→ Adopt Comprehensive
Immigration Reform
→ Reject Construction of a
Border Wall
→ Protect Nutrition
Assistance
→ Improve the Economy and
Create Jobs in Areas with High Poverty, Unemployment, Food
Insecurity, Homelessness, and Foreclosure Rates
→ Fully Fund the
Investigation of Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential
Election
→ Improve the Earned Income
Tax Credit
→ No Fast Track for
Millionaire Tax Cuts or Gutting Investments Vital to American
Families
→ Eliminate Unrequested
Overseas Contingency Operations Funding
→ Improving the Availability
of Long-Term Care Services and Supports for Seniors and Other
Americans
→ Reject Cuts to Diplomatic
and Foreign Aid Operations
→ No Tax Cut for the Wealthy
→ Protect Clean Air and
Water
→ Invest in Science and
Research to Find Life-Saving Cures and to Create Jobs
→ Invest in Early Childhood
Development to Ease Financial Burden on Struggling Families and Ensure
Academic Success of our Children
→ Protect Social Security
Benefits
→ Protect Consumers from
Abusive Financial Practices
→ Reaffirming America’s
Commitment to the Paris Agreement Combating Climate Change
→ Fully Fund Veterans’
Benefits
→ Increase Pell Grants to
Make College More Affordable
→ Reduce Prescription Drug
Costs for All Americans
You can find the Amendments in
their entirety here
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You can share the House Budget Democrats Tweet here
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→ Direct sources for Democrats:
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The Democratic Party Website
C-SPAN (a good place for speeches & hearings direct source (s))
→ Some of my favorite, most informative
follows on Twitter include:
US Intelligence +35 yrs | Author | Navy Senior Chief | NBC/MSNBC
Vanity Fair | Newsweek | MSNBC Contributor | Author
Ari Melber
MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent | Emmy-winning reporter | Host of The Beat With Ari
Ari Berman
Author | Mother Jones
Author | Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible media -- at the moment:
The Washington Post
The New York Times
→ Some of the most credible Talking Heads -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
AM w/Joy Reid on MSNBC
The Beat With Ari on MSNBC
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