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It takes more public money from the poor and working class and other low—and moderate-income Americans and gives it to the rich by cutting the social safety net.

Public health professionals, economists, social demographers and other social scientists and experts have repeatedly shown that the Republican Party’s proposed cuts to an already weak social safety net, as well as other supports for poor and moderate-income Americans, will shorten lives, make the public less healthy and less happy, more insecure and therefore less able to exercise their agency and freedom in a democracy.

It's critical that people whose job it is to protect the programs that low- and moderate-income people rely on focus on the threats and opportunities that are appearing.

In the case of the Republican House budget, it's being paid for through massive cuts to health care and nutrition for low- and moderate-income people.

Americans in the bottom 40 percent would be worse off from this so-called tax cut bill because the cuts to programs are so deep and concentrated on support for low- and moderate-income Americans and their tax cuts are so small.