WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Senate Republicans released their new budget resolution to serve as a framework to their reconciliation bill – a wide-ranging proposal that would make massive cuts to Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and other vital programs while using accounting gimmicks and procedural tricks to circumvent Senate norms and avoid fiscal responsibility.

U.S. Senator Jack Reed stated:

“The phrase “gimmick-fest” is not in the dictionary, but it describes what President Trump and congressional Republicans are doing with this new budget.  The reason Republicans want to obscure the truth here is because it’s a raw deal for the American people.  Republicans are going all out so they can give billionaires tax cuts.  At the same time, they keep talking about cutting people’s Medicaid, Social Security, raise costs, and increase hardships by denying people things like nutrition assistance and other government services. The American people are the ones who are eventually going to have to pay the cost of this Republican budget blueprint and once they get the tab they won’t like it.”