WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, Democrats fought against Republicans’ extreme bill that puts health coverage for millions of Americans at risk, eviscerates public education and job training, and eliminates funding for reproductive health.
This bill:
- Puts health care coverage for millions of Americans in jeopardy by cancelling $2 billion for operating Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance plans, threatening the ACA health insurance Marketplace.
- Reduces economic opportunities for working families by eliminating Youth and Adult Job Training programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and cuts funding for the Job Corps in half.
- Kicks 30,000 teachers out of classrooms by cutting Title I grants by $2 billion, reducing the quality of education our children receive.
- Abandons college students and low-income workers trying to improve their lives through postsecondary education by increasing interest rates for 4 million college student borrowers, cutting funding for need-based financial aid, and eliminating job training programs.
- Decimates support for children in K-12 elementary schools by slashing funding for low-income students, eliminating funding for teacher training, and eliminating funding for community schools.
- Slashes research for maternal health, telehealth, and patient safety in hospitals and health clinics by eliminating funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and terminating nearly $1 billion from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (PCORTF).
- Harms women’s health by cutting programs that support maternal and child health, eliminating programs that provide access to contraception and health services, and adding numerous partisan and poison pill riders related to abortion and reproductive health.
- Surrenders to ongoing health crises by making major cuts to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program and reducing funding for mental health services and substance use prevention and treatment.
It’s crazy how these “fiscal conservatives” cut so much from programs that help people, but still rack up historic deficits.
Republicans care about billionaires and pedophiles and the Venn diagram of the two is basically a circle. Fuck every republican and every fuck-wit voting for them.
Think of the good we could do with $300 billion dollars.
The Kochs and other “libertarian” billionaires, who funded the religious right in return for tax cuts, global warming denial and deregulation, don’t believe in “government handouts”.
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