Today, Congressional Republicans gave final approval to a federal budget bill that makes historic cuts to social safety net programs, funnels unprecedented resources into mass deportation, and gives trillions in tax cuts largely to the wealthy while ballooning the deficit. In DC, the top 1 percent will receive $197 million in tax cuts in 2026 alone, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Meanwhile, thousands of DC residents will go hungry, have less access to health care, and fewer resources to make ends meet.
Erica Williams, Executive Director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, released the following statement:
“This is an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich with massive cascading damage to state budgets. These historic cuts to health care and food assistance dismantle the foundation that many working families stand on. DC will only be able to absorb a fraction of the program cuts and will be forced to make drastic cutbacks that leave every DC residents—except for the very wealthy—with less.”