{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcgarvey.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-mcgarvey-makes-budget-committee-debut-with-fiery-speech-slamming-republican-tax-scam", "Congressman McGarvey Makes Budget Committee Debut with Fiery Speech Slamming Republican Tax Scam", "2025-02-13", "2025", "2025-02", "Democrat", "House", "KY", "Morgan McGarvey", "M001220", "mcgarvey.house.gov", "mcgarvey", "https://mcgarvey.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cIt reads like a love letter to billionaires\u2026 This is a scam, plain and simple.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. (February 13, 2025) \u2013 Today, Congressman Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) made his debut on the powerful House Budget Committee during a markup hearing on the Republican budget proposal, which includes over $4.5 trillion in tax cuts paid for by deep cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP.\n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH OR DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO\n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\nLet\u2019s call the Republican budget proposal what it is \u2013 a total scam and betrayal of the American middle class.\n\nIt reads like a love letter to billionaires, which we all know is the point. This is their end game.\n\nBillionaires like Elon Musk poured hundreds of millions into the 2024 election, and now they are cashing in on that investment.\n\nWhat do these billionaires want so desperately? Tax cuts. Not for us, for them.\n\nIt\u2019s that simple! Tax cuts for billionaires and the most profitable companies, paid for by our kids, our seniors, veterans, and anyone who works hard for a paycheck.\n\nAll so the richest man in the world can get even richer \u2013 and so that companies like Tesla can continue to pay zero \u2014 that\u2019s zero \u2014 in federal taxes, despite bringing in billions of dollars.\n\nThis is a scam, plain and simple.\n\nThe Republican budget scam will hurt our most vulnerable \u2013 including our kids, seniors, and veterans.\n\nSomeone\u2019s illness should never be a death sentence, but this budget will rip away health insurance from millions of Americans.\n\nIn Kentucky, we know this all too well.\n\nWe had the most successful rollout of Medicaid expansion in the country. Nearly 25% of Kentuckians have Medicaid. 440,000 Kentuckians got health insurance for the first time because of the expansion of Medicaid.\n\nThat\u2019s now all at risk. Republicans want to rip this coverage away so the ultra-wealthy can get even richer.\n\nBut these cuts go far beyond health care.\n\nWe have a hunger crisis in this country. Millions of American families struggle to put food on the table and rely on programs like SNAP to survive.\n\nThe Republican budget scam puts these food assistance programs on the chopping block \u2013 including for over 35,000 Louisvillians who count on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\n\nAnd who does this hurt?\n\nCountless seniors and veterans also face food insecurity, including thousands of veterans across Kentucky who rely on SNAP.\n\nLet\u2019s be clear: a cut to SNAP is a cut to our veterans, who we made a sacred promise to support after they risked everything for us.\n\nAs if hurting millions of Americans wasn\u2019t enough, Republicans\u2019 math doesn\u2019t even add up.\n\nI went to law school so I wouldn\u2019t have to do math, but I do understand some basic addition and subtraction.\n\nRepublicans want to cut your benefits by one trillion dollars \u2013 but they want to spend $4.6 trillion on tax cuts for the point-one percent.\n\nEven if you take the rosiest forecasts and account for growth, that is over $2.5 trillion that Republicans are adding to our deficit. Where is that money going? And more importantly, who is that money going to?\n\nThey\u2019re robbing you to line Elon Musk's pockets. That\u2019s the truth.\n\nRepublicans have been plotting this scheme for years.\n\nThey used to want to hide the fact that they are ripping off the middle class and bending the knee to their billionaire donors.\n\nBut now, Republicans are openly bragging about it. Donald Trump promised all of these ultra-wealthy donors gathered at Mar-a-Lago, saying \u2013 quote \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re rich as hell\u2026 we\u2019re gonna give you tax cuts.\u201d\n\nEnough is enough \u2013 this has to stop.\n\nHouse Democrats will not cede an inch. We will continue fighting for working families, for balanced budgets, for budgets that work for the American people. 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