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MI SR0156
Resolution
Status
5/28/2014
Primary Sponsor
Bertram Johnson
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AI Summary
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Denounces the House Republican Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 96), which proposes $5 trillion in cuts to non-defense spending with more than two-thirds affecting low and middle-class programs for healthcare, education, and food.
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Opposes the budget's replacement of traditional Medicare with a voucher program and its $2.7 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and insurance subsidies, which would leave an estimated 40 million Americans uninsured by 2024.
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Objects to $137 billion in cuts to SNAP (food assistance) forcing 3.8 million people off the program in 2014, $125 billion in Pell Grant cuts, and $500 billion in unspecified cuts to school lunches and other programs for vulnerable populations.
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Rejects the budget's elimination of middle-class tax deductions like the Earned Income Tax Credit while reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, characterizing it as upward wealth redistribution.
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Memorializes Congress and the President to oppose any proposal that eliminates traditional Medicare, cuts social safety net programs substantially, or increases taxes on the middle class.
Legislative Description
A resolution to denounce the House Republican Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Resolution and to memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to oppose any proposal that would eliminate Medicare as it has traditionally existed, make substantial tax cuts to already-struggling social safety net programs, or increase the tax burden on the middle class.
Medicare
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Appropriations
5/28/2014