ST. PAUL – Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Chairman Richard Carlbom released the following statement:
“With Reps. Finstad, Emmer, Fischbach, and Stauber’s vote in favor of tax cuts for billionaires and cuts to Medicaid, the betrayal of their constituents is complete. They chose to raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion while ripping food out of the mouths of children and seniors. They represent the most irresponsible generation of Republicans in the history of this country. The Minnesota DFL won’t let voters forget about this – ever.”
By The Numbers
Trump and the GOP’s billionaire first budget takes a wrecking ball to Minnesota families’ livelihoods
- Republicans cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid — the largest cut to Medicaid in American history
- The GOP budget rips away health care from at least 170,000 Minnesotans.
- Minnesota hospitals are at risk of closing, ripping away access to critical emergency medical care for millions of Americans.
- 45,000 Minnesotans are at risk of losing food assistance, forcing working families and children to go hungry
- Increases energy costs by hundreds of dollars nationwide.
Trump’s bill will wreak havoc on working families and cut the programs that their constituents rely on. Here’s how this bill will impact Americans:
- Cuts $1.3 trillion in food assistance and health coverage while giving the wealthy that exact amount in tax breaks.
- Rips away health care from 17 million Americans through over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act — including the most significant cut to Medicaid in American history.
- Puts over 300 rural hospitals at risk of shutting down, ripping away critical, lifesaving care from hundreds of rural communities across the country.
- Puts roughly 5 million Americans — about 1 in 8 SNAP participants — at risk of losing food assistance
- Adds $3.25 trillion to the national debt, while revenues fall by $4.47 trillion.
- Forces at least 1 in 4 nursing homes to close their doors.
- Puts 1.75 million construction jobs at risk — with unions warning, “This stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country.”
- Puts 2 million clean energy jobs at risk.
- Increases energy bills by hundreds of dollars across the country.
- Endangers our communities by making it easier to buy dangerous firearms and silencers.
