Food swiped off the table for millions of men, women, and kids. Low-income families left out in the cold amid an affordable housing crisis of historic proportions. Critical health insurance stripped from children, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-wage workers. State governments in utter fiscal disarray. Above all, more poverty, suffering, and homelessness; less opportunity and justice; and worsened racial and economic inequality.
By John Bouman
Article Submission
Is this the country that most Americans want? According to recent polling, the answer is no. Yet this is the harsh vision set out by the Trump Administration’s proposed FY 2019 budget released yesterday. While the outline is merely a proposal, and does not have immediate bearing on the recent bipartisan spending deal, it represents the administration’s latest attack on low-income people and people of color-and it must be swiftlyly and categorically rejected.