Rep. John YarmuthVerified account

Congress just approved a shockingly extreme budget. Here's what you need to know:

It cuts critical national priorities by more than $5 trillion. Education, health care, research, and infrastructure are ALL threatened.

It cuts Medicare and Medicaid by nearly $2 trillion.

It includes trillions of $ in tax cuts that benefit the wealthy & corporations, while increasing taxes on millions of middle class families.

These tax cuts will INCREASE our debt and deficits by $1.5 trillion. That's $1,500,000,000,000.

Once the tax cuts blow a huge hole in the budget, new attacks on programs that help Americans get by and get ahead will soon follow.

Medicare. Medicaid. Social Security. Nutrition assistance. Vital services and benefits for American families will ALL be at risk.

The fight now shifts to the GOP tax plan that will be brought to the House floor in just a matter of weeks.