How does this make sense? While President Trump and Republicans in Congress want to hand out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires, they plan to pay for them with takeaways from kids, seniors, farmers, small business owners, veterans, and rural Americans with: cuts to school lunch programs; cuts to support for food banks; cuts to purchases from farmers; cuts to rental assistance for seniors; cuts to broadband expansion in rural areas; cuts to weather forecasting; cuts to disaster relief; cuts to national parks; cuts to cancer care and cancer research; cuts to Veterans’ healthcare benefits; cuts to prescription drug benefits; cuts to mental health services; cuts to addiction recovery support; and cuts to cuts to Medicaid, known in our state as MaineCare, and the Affordable Care Act that will result in roughly 13.7 million people losing their health insurance by 2034, including nearly 51,000 people in Maine; that will lead to higher medical costs; and cause rural hospitals to close.

This is what their fast and furious actions will do to us while also increasing inflation, adding $4 trillion to the budget deficit, and downgrading our U.S. credit rating. How does this make sense for everyday Americans???

Valerie Tate lives in Belfast