Kaptur Statement Following Budget Committee Hearing Held In Dark Of Night

Washington, DC – Tonight, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after House Republicans reconvened a Budget Committee hearing at 10 pm on Sunday evening. While most Americans are preparing for the work week and not tuned in, The GOP has failed to advance its legislation to kick 13.7 million Americans off their health care, and make middle-class families suffer in order to fund Trillions in tax giveaways to Millionaires, Billionaires, and wealthy corporate donors.

"This bill that is being rammed through the Budget Committee in the dead of night on a weekend is a betrayal to the American people. It is just another bonanza for Billionaires," said Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09). "Don’t they have enough yet? Now the GOP Majority is making it harder for struggling people on Medicaid, by pushing legislation that would kick 13.7 million Americans off their health care. They are voting to reduce food to the hungry, by cutting back $300 Billion in SNAP funding for those struggling just to get by.”

“Our nation is the richest nation on Earth. Surely we can and must do better than this cruel, damaging and harmful legislation. When a handful of top Billionaires in our nation hold half the wealth of our nation, that is too much to few," continued Congresswoman Kaptur. "The Billionaire class owns as much as the 160 million American and families in the bottom half of our population in the middle-class and working-class. Such a radical financial stratification of our nation’s population is dangerous. It must not be perpetuated. As the late President John F. Kennedy said, ‘if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.’”

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