NDPC: Congress Acting Like a Bunch of Grinches

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Don Morrison, director of the Progressive Coalition, said congressional leaders are trying to push a tax cut that will do little to create jobs, while creating more hardship for those struggling to pay for medical care and go to college.

Morrison urged North Dakotans to thank the state's congressional delegation for opposing the plan, and to call other members of Congress and the governor to tell them to oppose it. "We don't have to accept the fact that our leaders want to take from child health care and give to millionaires,"Morrison said.

Morrison said if the budget reconciliation bills that Republicans want are passed, a family of three earning $18,000 annually could see a $900 a year increase in annual health care costs through Medicaid.

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According to the Associated Press, the House voted 234-197 Thursday for tax reductions that would benefit mainly businesses and investors, costing the Treasury $56.1 billion over five years. Together with three other tax cuts that the House approved Wednesday, the package would cost the Treasury $94.5 billion over five years, nearly twice as much as the $50 billion five-year spending reductions that the House adopted last month.

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