Video: Understanding Congress’s Billionaire Budget
In an interview for Yes! Magazine’s Rising Up With Sonali show, Lindsay Koshgarian explained how the recent Continuing Resolution passed by Congress cuts funding for the poor to fund the U.S. war machine and mass deportations: “What they ended up passing was a budget that shifts funding from domestic priorities into the Pentagon, and they did also eek out a little smidge more for their mass deportation plans.”
But Lindsay warns that’s only a small taste of what’s to come in the budget Republicans will attempt to pass through reconciliation this year. Congressional Republicans plan to use that process to cut “huge amounts of money from Medicaid, food stamps — they want to add even more to the Pentagon budget, even more for mass deportations,” she says, in addition to tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.
Though Senate Republicans will only need a simple majority to pass the budget reconciliation bill, Lindsay says that the fight is far from over. “There’s still months left to fight this. We can fight to limit the damage; we can fight to make people aware of what’s in this budget so that when those cuts come home to roost and harm people, they will know exactly what happened and exactly who’s to blame — and we can potentially win some of this.”
Watch Lindsay’s full interview on Yes! Magazine below
