If Democrats want to dust off their 2017 playbook as they mount an offensive against Republicans’ efforts to extend expiring tax cuts, this month has provided them plenty of fodder.
Democrats derided the 2017 tax law, much of which is expiring this year, as a giveaway to the wealthy, a message that played well in the 2018 midterms when they reclaimed the House. Now, Washington is poised once again to return to united Republican control, and the GOP is preparing to extend the 2017 law paired with deep cuts to federal programs that lower-income households rely on.
A menu of more than $5 trillion in potential spending cuts circulated by House Budget Republicans became public this week. The list of possible cuts draws heavily on Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care benefit for the poor, food stamps and other social welfare programs.
