LAWLER & LALOTA LIED: Republicans’ Budget Plan Will Require Cuts to Medicare or Medicaid
Congressional Budget Office Report Finds Republican Budget Goals Impossible Without Steep Cuts to Social Safety Net
NEW YORK — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released its report on the recently-passed Republican budget resolution, finding that the $1.5 trillion in cuts that the plan calls for are impossible to achieve without making cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). House Republicans plan to use these cuts to critical programs to pay for massive tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations.
After voting for the controversial plan last week, Representative Mike Lawler took to social media to defend his decision, vowing that he would never support cuts to Medicare or Medicaid and insisting claims that the GOP plan threatened social safety net programs are lies. They are not.
Meanwhile, Representative Nick LaLota is using taxpayer dollars to run an ad claiming that his vote for Republican budget resolution ‘protects Medicaid.’ It does not.
“Representatives Mike Lawler and Nick LaLota looked New Yorkers in the eyes and told them they had nothing to worry about. They looked their own constituents in the eyes and lied to them,’” said Maria Martinez, Executive Director of Empire State Voices. “The Congressional Budget Office report is crystal clear: the cuts called for in the Republican plan are impossible without severely slashing funding for Medicare or Medicaid. Cuts like these would cause offices around our state to close and make it nearly impossible for the millions of New Yorkers who rely on these lifesaving programs to access their benefits.”
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