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FIGHT: GOP is cutting your Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP and raising tariffs for tax cuts for the r [1]
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Date: 2025-05-22
Alex Lawson, Social Security Works’ Executive Director, is on Capitol Hill confronting Reps like Miller-Meeks, who are cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP while raising tariffs on the working class.
GOP is cutting your Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP
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In a powerful Capitol Hill report, Politics Done Right host Egberto Willies speaks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, actively confronting Republican lawmakers over their proposed cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP, which, alongside tariff increases, disproportionately burden working Americans. The GOP’s goal, Lawson argues, is clear: take from the poor to fund massive tax giveaways to billionaires. This segment highlights the grassroots action’s moral and political urgency to block these devastating proposals.
Alex Lawson reports from Capitol Hill, confronting GOP members like Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks for supporting healthcare cuts impacting tens of thousands in their districts.
Republicans are pushing a plan that would cut $800 billion from Medicaid and $500 billion from Medicare, threatening millions of Americans’ healthcare access.
Trump’s tariff increases are regressive taxes, raising consumer prices and disproportionately hurting the working class.
These cuts would result in the closure of rural hospitals, degrade the quality of care nationwide, and eliminate programs like Meals on Wheels.
The GOP plan centers on transferring wealth from poor and working-class Americans to billionaires like Elon Musk through tax cuts and budget slashes.
The GOP’s relentless war on the working class is veiled in fiscal conservatism but rooted in class warfare. By gutting essential programs and raising regressive tariffs, Republicans aim to enrich their billionaire donors while inflicting economic harm on millions of struggling Americans. Progressives must seize this moment to mobilize, expose the cruelty of these policies, and fight for a government that protects the people, not Wall Street elites.
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