Republicans are playing games with the budget numbers to conceal from public view drastic cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and other popular programs that are needed to pay for tax cuts that primarily benefit wealthy billionaires like Elon Musk.
Jeffries accuses Republicans of hiding budget cuts that affect essential services.
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We do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock, period. Full stop.
Republicans are trying to kill Social Security from the inside — it is a cut by another name — and we won’t let that happen.
an existential struggle to defeat Republican efforts to try to jam a very reckless budget down the throats of the American people.
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