02.12.25

Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member: House Republican Budget Proposal is “One Big, Awful Pile of Junk”

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) released the following statement after House Republicans released their version of a FY 2025 budget resolution: 

“This is one big, awful pile of junk. The House Republican FY 2025 Budget Resolution tees up a reconciliation bill that would eviscerate Medicaid, cut critical nutrition assistance for low-income families, and pull the rug out from under American students, all to pay for the Republicans’ massive tax giveaway for the wealthy.  

“Writing a multi-trillion-dollar tax giveaway for billionaires, paid for by multi-trillion-dollar cuts to programs for working families is a betrayal on the grandest scale. It is a different budget resolution than the Senate resolution that we are marking up today, but it’s the same bait and switch for America’s working families.” 

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