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Taken together, budget proposals released by House Republicans and the far-right agenda outlined by the Trump-aligned Project 2025 initiative would 'create a harsher country with higher poverty and less opportunity' while simultaneously delivering more tax cuts to the wealthiest people in the United States.
's new analysis observes. 'This cut would affect 41 million people participating in SNAP.' 'And Project 2025 calls for gutting summer food assistance programs that children in families with low incomes rely on when school is out, which could include the new Summer EBT program that is expected to provide grocery benefits to more than 21 million children this summer,'
said. While proposing funding cuts that would strip food aid, healthcare, and other programs from working-class people across the U.S., the three proposals align behind a tax agenda that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans, according to added, 'calling for a set of extreme near-term tax policies that would raise taxes on middle- and low-income households while cutting them for wealthy households, shareholders, and corporations.' Additionally, each of the three right-wing policy proposals calls for the elimination of an Internal Revenue Service funding boost approved by congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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