"Work until you drop dead": House GOP plan takes axe to Social Security, healthcare and civil rights

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Alternet.org
March 21, 2024


The Republican Study Committee has released it's proposed 2025 budget which would take an axe to major elements of the social safety net, healthcare system, and civil rights, while affecting nearly every American, either now, or in the future.

Calling it "Fiscal Sanity to Save America," the budget proposal from the far-right MAGA-affiliated group of about 170 House Republicans would effectively create a national abortion ban and ban on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) by creating legal protections for human embryos starting at "the moment of fertilization."
It mentions the word "abortion" 77 times.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a member and former chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

"The House GOP Study Committee (largest House GOP bloc) released a budget endorsing the Life at Conception Act, which would provide 14th Amendment legal protections at every stage of life," explained Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Semafor's domestic policy and politics reporter.
"Amounts to near-total ban on abortions with no IVF exceptions."

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) blasted the Republican Study Committee's budget
"Wow, today a group comprising 80% of Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed a far-right bill that would impose a national abortion ban and outlaw birth control and in vitro fertilization IVF," he wrote on X.

"Just now 80% of Republicans in Congress called for raising the retirement age and tying Social Security to life expectancy. Republicans want you to work until you drop dead," he added minutes later.


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