Reconciliation 2025
DOGE
Education
Minimum wage

Low taxes for the rich and for corporations is the highest legislative priority of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. To get there, they are willing to cut federal programs that are utterly vital to the incomes and security of vulnerable families.

These cuts will not just cause harm to individual families, they will cascade, leading to hospital closures in rural counties, higher medical debt, lower earnings from future workers who will suffer from poorer health decades from now, and could even put upward pressure on federal budget deficits in the long run. Read more

 

Trump has created multiple avenues for Musk and his team to exploit their political positions for their own personal gain.

Musk and DOGE team members have unprecedented access to nonpublic data with no guardrails in place to protect the people whose data is now compromised. They stand to earn billions in profit from their illegal and unethical access to nonpublic data alone.

With his influence and access to federal contracts, Musk can reap billions in personal gain for his companies. Read more

Public schools, while flawed, remain one of the best tools we still have to build a prosperous, equitable country. Nearly 90% of all U.S. students attend public schools.

The Trump administration, implementing ideas right out of Project 2025, is defunding public education to the point that it doesn’t work. Their “fix”? Private school vouchers as a solution to a problem of their own making. Read more

The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold. 

The minimum wage is one of the strongest policy tools for improving the economic security of low-wage workers. Unlike Congressional Republicans’ ineffective policies of imposing work requirements on safety net programs and cutting Medicaid, raising the minimum wage is a proven tool to lower poverty. Read more

 

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