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Kevin McCarthy’s debit limit bill sets a negative precedent that will cut funding for programs that hard working Americans rely on. Here are a few programs that will be cut if this bill is passed:
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Cuts to Health Care:
💊Kick low-income Americans off Medicaid by imposing stringent work requirements.
⚕️Cut the State Opioid Response grant program--denying 29,000 people recovery services.
🪖Provide veterans with 13M fewer health care visits & longer wait times for benefits.
💊Kick low-income Americans off Medicaid by imposing stringent work requirements.
⚕️Cut the State Opioid Response grant program--denying 29,000 people recovery services.
🪖Provide veterans with 13M fewer health care visits & longer wait times for benefits.
Cuts to Education:
📚Cut 200,000 children from Head Start and 100,000 children from child care assistance.
🎓Decrease higher education aid to all 6.6M Pell recipients and eliminate Pell Grants altogether for approximately 80,000 students.
📚Cut 200,000 children from Head Start and 100,000 children from child care assistance.
🎓Decrease higher education aid to all 6.6M Pell recipients and eliminate Pell Grants altogether for approximately 80,000 students.
Cuts to Law Enforcement:
🚨Make communities less safe by cutting support for 60 local law enforcement agencies, cutting funding for several hundred officers, decreasing FBI personnel by approx. 11,000, & freeze hiring at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
🚨Make communities less safe by cutting support for 60 local law enforcement agencies, cutting funding for several hundred officers, decreasing FBI personnel by approx. 11,000, & freeze hiring at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
Cuts on Sustainability
⚡ Cut the green energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, which will increase energy costs by slowing the development of more clean energy technologies like wind, solar, and energy-efficient vehicles.
⚡ Cut the green energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, which will increase energy costs by slowing the development of more clean energy technologies like wind, solar, and energy-efficient vehicles.
Cuts to help Small Businesses and Labor
💼 Decrease assistance to small businesses, resulting in 125,000 fewer entrepreneurs & small businesses
🛠 Deny 750,000 workers job training & employment services and result in 100,000 fewer workers gaining a Registered Apprenticeship.
💼 Decrease assistance to small businesses, resulting in 125,000 fewer entrepreneurs & small businesses
🛠 Deny 750,000 workers job training & employment services and result in 100,000 fewer workers gaining a Registered Apprenticeship.
Cuts that help our seniors
🍎 Cut more than 1M seniors from Meals on Wheels and over 1M mothers & children from the WIC nutritional assistance program.
🍎 Cut more than 1M seniors from Meals on Wheels and over 1M mothers & children from the WIC nutritional assistance program.
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