In Reply to: The Biggest Boondoggles in Trump's Big Beautiful B posted by mh on June 08, 2025 at 10:54:18
The ongoing tax and budget negotiations on Capitol Hill and the “one big, beautiful bill” that knits together Republican spending priorities are exposing deep rifts within the GOP, including a sharp divide over how much to cut Medicaid and food assistance.
Much attention has centered on how these cuts would impact public health and well-being, including potentially devastating effects for mental health and opioid treatment, the costs of nursing homes, income inequality and child hunger.
But it’s not just health in the crosshairs — public safety is too. If lawmakers pass the package as it stands now, their actions are likely to increase crime nationwide, in red states, blue states, cities, rural areas and everywhere in between.