Republicans in Congress passed Trump’s horrifying Big Billionaire Handout budget. The Republican Budget is a big, ugly betrayal that takes food off the table, abandons public education, and erodes the rural services that support millions of hardworking Americans. The budget will have massive impacts for rural Americans, just to make us pay for another giveaway to billionaire elites.
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Costs are already too high yet this bill will increase costs for rural American families by thousands a year. Let’s take a look at how this is going to make life more difficult for our communities—only to give away our hard-earned dollars to the ultrawealthy:
- Upward of 40 percent of rural children across the country get healthcare from Medicaid. This bill cuts access to those programs, leaving millions of Americans and their children without healthcare while cutting critical funding for rural hospitals and clinics, which could force them to close their doors or reduce services.
Trump and Republicans’ Budget will make healthcare more unaffordable for millions while also making it harder for people in rural communities to find healthcare.
- More than 15 percent of families in rural and small-town America rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but this bill includes almost $200 billion in cuts to SNAP, leaving millions of Americans without food, and could impact up to 18 million kids who receive meals at school.
Trump’s Big Billionaire Handout will make food even more unaffordable while prices for groceries are already skyrocketing because of his tariffs.
- Our local governments rely on federal funding to help provide things like healthcare, transportation, postal services, and fire and emergency medical services, but this bill cut that funding, making it even harder for rural and small-town America to receive these services.
Trump and Republicans’ Budget will make rural communities harder to reach and less safe.
- Our local public schools are the hubs of rural communities, but this bill diverts crucial funds away from students in public schools to pay for private school tuition vouchers, even though these schools are far away and hard to reach for most of the kids in our communities.
Trump and Republicans’ Budget created a federal voucher program, giving millions of public school dollars to private schools that don’t serve our kids.
- Rural communities are being revitalized across the country because of billion-dollar investments in things like manufacturing and clean energy production, but this bill will stop many of those investments and increase our energy costs by more than 7 percent.
Trump and Republicans’ Budget will take money and jobs out of our communities and increase our utility costs.
- Small and family-owned farms and ranches are already struggling because of Trump’s tariffs and corporate greed, but rather than supporting our farmers and ranchers, this bill is just another handout to big, corporate farms, with no plan to pass a Farm Bill.
Trump and Republicans’ Budget will force more farmers and ranchers to lose their livelihoods so Republicans can prop up agribusiness and big, corporate farms.