Wyden Statement on Republican Reconciliation Bill Text
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Republican reconciliation bill:
“The House Republican version of this bill was already a class war, but Senate Republicans decided to inflict even more devastation on the lives of working Americans to give even larger handouts to the top.
“The biggest winners here are wealthy corporations who would get hundreds of billions of dollars in additional tax breaks on top of what they got in the House Republican bill. Senate Republicans would pay for those new corporate tax breaks by making even deeper cuts to Medicaid, slashing funding for rural hospitals and other essential health care providers and throwing cash-strapped states off a funding cliff. If those Medicaid cuts weren’t damaging enough, this bill would endanger hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs and take food out of the mouths of millions of children.
“This is caviar over kids, and Mar-a-Lago over the middle class. This bill will drive the vulnerable into misery and drag down the middle class all for the benefit of the rich and powerful, a backward and punishing agenda in a country that’s supposed to provide opportunity for everyone.
“Senate Democrats are going to fight this with everything we’ve got, and if Republicans still manage to pass it, the millions of American families who suffer as a result will never forget who was responsible for their hardship.”
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