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‘Families Lose — Billionaires Win’: Jeff Merkley Claims GOP Budget Will Worsen ‘Trumpflation’
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5/7/2025
During a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) spoke about the Republicans' budget resolution.
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Families lose, billionaires win. That's the Trump economic agenda. And in just three months
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he's destroyed the momentum and economic growth from the last three years. The economy is
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down, prices are up, Trumpflation has arrived. Make no mistake, that's the Trump economy.
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And then there's the reconciliation bill that will make things worse. So we're in the spring
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here with baseball, so let me put it very simply. Strike one, the reconciliation bill knocks
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down $2 trillion from health care, housing and education. Strike two, it gives that money
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to the very richest Americans, the billionaires. And strike three, it runs up enormous debt,
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some $52 trillion, according to CBO, over 30 years. You know, the bill has specific problems
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as well. Take health care, take Medicaid. They're demanding devastating cuts that would wipe out
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our rural hospitals and health care clinics and do enormous damage to our veterans, those
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with disabilities, those in drug recovery programs, to our children. A third of the children in
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my state are on the Oregon health plan or Medicaid. State and local taxes. The President wants families
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to pay more so billionaires can pay less. Take Pell Grants. Republicans want to decrease
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them in order to make education more expensive. And that agenda makes no sense. We have a better
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idea than families lose and billionaires win. And it's families thrive and billionaires pay
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their fair share. Instead of slashing Medicaid, let's work together to improve health care
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for low-income families and for others in our society. Instead of slashing Pell Grants, let's
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make education more of an opportunity for every child in America. Instead of exploding the debt
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to give massive tax breaks to billionaires, let's invest in the foundations for families to
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thrive. It's a positive vision to take America together forward. Let's make that happen, not
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families lose and billionaires win.
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