It is one designed to tell Americans that these social safety nets are not necessary because people choose these safety nets over getting a job.
What honest observer of government could disagree?
The people that are visiting your offices are terrified that the Republican approach to Medicaid will be adopted.
This week presents a very clear contrast in the priorities between Republicans and the Democrats in Congress.
If our goal simply is to take a hatchet to part of the budget in order to meet certain targets while refusing to take a ...
the Republican budget refuses to eliminate one single tax break for the purpose of deficit reduction.
The Republican budget cuts $810 billion from Medicaid.
It attempts to balance the federal budget on the backs of the poor, by gutting federal spending on safety net programs.
I would argue, as well as probably most people on our side of the aisle, that the Affordable Care Act helped address a l...
It ignores the advice of bipartisan commissions that say that any credible, responsible approach to reducing the deficit...
There is a difference between reform and just taking a hatchet to important social safety net programs.