MAGA Republicans Want To Redistribute Wealth Upwards
The Congressional Republicans are currently negotiating among themselves in an attempt to cobble together a majority to pass Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill.” The Republicans have given themselves a set of contradictory objectives for their budget bill: cut taxes for the rich and corporations, don’t increase the deficit, don’t harm their followers who would be badly hurt by cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and don’t raise the debt ceiling.
At the present time, the Republicans are badly divided and don’t have a majority to achieve any of their goals. The far right wants to cut programs for the poor and middle class by $1.5 trillion. The so-called moderates want to limit those cuts to $500 billion. The House budget blueprint that was supported by all Republicans requires $880 billion in cuts to programs for the poor and middle class. The reality is that you can’t achieve these cuts without slashing Medicaid.
At the present time, 80 million Americans get their insurance from Medicaid. This is a federal-state partnership in which the federal government provides 60% of the funding. Millions of Trump supporters and rural hospitals depend upon this life saving program. Deep cuts to Medicaid would do great damage to the red states that supported Trump in three elections.
The Congressional Democrats requested that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) project how many million Americans would lose health insurance coverage if Trump’s budget bill were to become law. The answer wasn’t pretty for the GOP since the CBO found that Trump’s bill would take away insurance from millions of Americans.
The CBO’s report reviewed the Medicaid proposals that the Republicans have floated for the bill: reduce the federal government’s payments to the states, cutting taxes for providers that fund Medicaid, arbitrarily capping the number of people who can be on Medicaid and tightening eligibility rules.
In addition to the proposed Medicaid cuts, the House GOP budget slashes spending on subsidies for the purchase of insurance on the ACA exchanges. The people who can afford to maintain their coverage, will face skyrocketing premiums. A new estimate from the CBO concluded that the GOP budget would take away insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
Alleged “moderate“ Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) advised the Administration that he would only $500 billion in cuts to Medicaid. A total of twelve self styled House Republican “moderates” have stated that they won’t vote for deep cuts to the program. You have to take these pronouncements with a big grain of salt because these so-called House “moderates” always cave to Trump, the party bosses and the extremists. They have never backed up their brave words with action.
“Even if they pare the Medicaid cuts back to ‘only’ $500 billion,” says Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, “it would still be the largest Medicaid cuts ever. No matter which way you slice it, it’s millions of people kicked off their health insurance in the largest Medicaid cuts in U.S. history.”
Bacon and the other “moderates” have stated that they will only support work requirements, more eligibility checks and barring non-citizens from participation in the program. (Foreign citizens are already barred from being on federal programs.)
The Common Wealth Fund reported that Medicaid work requirements would take away insurance from between 4.6 and 5.2 million adults in 2026. While many of these Americans already have a job, they could still lose coverage due to difficulties involved in reporting compliance with the new requirements.
The Republicans want to (partially) pay for their budget busting tax cuts with cuts to Medicaid. It has been estimated that the cost to extend the 2017 tax cuts is $4.5 trillion. A whopping 80% of the tax cuts go to the top 1%. Households in the top 1% will grab an average tax cut of $60,000 in 2025, compared to $500 for families in the bottom 60%.
Trump and the Republicans would blow up the deficit with this ugly budget bill. The Senate budget proposal would add $5.8 trillion to the national debt and the House budget would add $5 trillion. All of that additional borrowing would cost the American people more money in the form of higher interest rates.
Let’s review what the GOP’s ugly budget would mean for the American people:
Higher prices for working families.
Tax breaks for billionaires and corporations.
Taking away insurance from 13.7 Americans.
The Trump and GOP budget is a huge redistribution of wealth in an upwards direction. MAGA Republicans believe that rich people don’t have enough money and the poor and middle class have it too easy. This is the Trump and MAGA Republican agenda.
Trump promised rapid and fast price cuts beginning on day one and an economic boom beginning on day one. Instead of delivering on his promises, he is now pitching higher prices and a lower standard of living. Nobody voted for this.
There has been a major backlash to Trump in 2025. Democrats are over performing Harris by 10 to 20 points. The Democrats won a landslide in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election after Musk spent $25 million.
The tide is turning. Be confident going forward. Take nothing for granted. Keep working hard. Blue wave 2026!
Sources consulted:
https://www.newsweek.com/millions-face-losing-health-insurance-under-republican-proposal-2070830