Day: April 5, 2025

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Statement on Senate Budget Resolution

  By Blog post, Penn Policy Center, Statement

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on April 5, 2025. April 5, 2025 By Marc Stier At 2:30 this morning, Pennsylvania Republican senator Dave McCormick joined all but two Republicans to pass a budget resolution that made their priorities for this country absolutely clear: They aim to take health insurance and food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and millions of Americans in order to pay for deep cuts in taxes for the wealthy, even as Trump’s tariffs radically increase taxes on working people in our state and devastate Pennsylvania farmers.  McCormick and Senate Republicans rejected Democrat-proposed amendments that would have protected Medicaid from any budget cuts; that would have blocked the new tariffs; and that would have rolled back the Trump administration’s illegal and unconstitutional decimation of federal programs that have already been approved and funded by Congress and signed into law by the President.  The Senate’s… Continue reading

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Don’t Cut Philadelphia Taxes: An Overview

  By Blog post, Policy Paper

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on April 5, 2025. April 5, 2025 By Marc Stier Overview of Philadelphia Tax PaperDownload Continue reading

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The Trump–Republican Assault on Working People Is Moving Ahead on Three Tracks

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Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on April 5, 2025. By Marc Stier This week, the Trump–Republican assault on the working people of the United States continued moving full-steam ahead on three tracks. On track one is the Senate budget resolution, which would advance the effort to take health care and food assistance away from tens of millions of Americans (and three million–four million Pennsylvanians) in order to extend and expand the 2017 Trump tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the top 5% of people. The total cost of these tax cuts would be over $5 billion over ten years. Meanwhile, Medicaid would be cut by $880 billion and SNAP by $230 billion, potentially knocking three quarters of a million people off Medicaid and reducing already low SNAP benefits by 20%. The Senate is debating the resolution today and we expect it will pass after Republicans reject a Democratic amendment… Continue reading