The far- right MAGA Republican caucus unveiled its 10- year "budget blueprint" yesterday, which once again reveals who they are: small- bore fascists who enjoy punching down on everyone not a corporate CEO:
House Republicans unveiled a budget blueprint on Tuesday that proposes trillions of dollars in federal spending reductions over the next decade, specifically targeting Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance for steep cuts.
House Budget Committee Republicans' new resolution also calls for the establishment of a "bipartisan debt commission" to examine and propose changes to "the drivers of U.S. debt... such as Social Security and Medicare." (Social Security does not, in fact, contribute to long-term federal deficits.) [snip]
The Republican proposal, which has no chance of becoming law given Democratic control of the Senate, would cut federal discretionary spending by nearly $5 trillion over the next decade, Roll Call reported Tuesday. The plan would cut mandatory spending—a category that includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—by nearly $9 trillion over a 10-year period.
The proposal would gash federal Medicaid spending by close to $2 trillion and SNAP by $800 billion. The resolution also calls for punitive new work requirements for the two programs. [snip]
The budget blueprint comes a day after House Republicans put forth a short-term government funding plan that would impose steep cuts to nondefense discretionary spending. With a government shutdown less than two weeks away, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) "punted plans to tee up a vote" on the widely criticized government funding proposal, Politico reported Tuesday... (our emphasis)
Nothing illustrates the principles and priorities of a party more than the budget it puts forth. What does this budget blueprint tell you? That they value the marginalized? The poor? Women? Children? The elderly? Not if you're seeing what we're seeing.
In the coming days and weeks, we'll see more analysis of this dead- on- arrival plan, of its cruelty and gimmicks. But, it has the great benefit of once again validating the unofficial Republican theme that we've repeated many times: "afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable." What poor excuses for human beings these hypocritical Christofascists are.
