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The majority of the Senate’s work this week has been focused on passing their budget resolution, the bill that sets their spending priorities, but more importantly gives them "instructions" that allow them to pass a massive tax cut for the rich with just 51 votes.
This, despite the fact that the Children's Health Insurance Program—which nearly 9 million children are enrolled in right now—expired on September 30. Despite the fact that it has thrown many state's budgets into turmoil, and that Minnesota is going to completely run out of funding in 12 days.
That makes this “Screw the Nation's Future Week” in the Senate, apparently. Not only are they malevolently neglecting an existing, critical program for children's health, but they're plotting how they can make their lives worse in the future with this budget/tax cuts bill.
According to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, households with children earning less than $75,000 would get just a $20 average tax cut in 2027 from the GOP tax framework released in late September, compared to a $200,000 tax cut for households with children earning $1 million or more. And when Congress turns its attention to paying for those tax cuts, low- and middle-income families would lose far more in health care, food and housing assistance, and educational services that they need to thrive now and in the future.
They're not even pretending like the care about children at this point, except of course for the unborn ones. Once they're in the world, they can ignored.