To Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (MN-07),
This week, the House of Representatives passed their budget reconciliation bill, a hodgepodge of policies that would kick 13.7 million people off their health insurance and give millionaires and billionaires trillions in tax breaks. You voted for this and claimed that your constituents, in no uncertain terms, wanted the 2017 tax cuts to be permanent. How much did you tell them they would get (and lose) compared to what the wealthy would gain? Or did you just tell them what they would get?
If this bill passes the Senate, it would be the largest Medicaid cut AND the largest tax cut for the wealthy in history. Then, as it goes into effect, it would trigger the largest across-the-board Medicare cut in history, too.
This is corruption on a massive scale. How much in campaign contributions did you get? How many attack ads against your Democrat opponents were paid for by wealthy PACs supposedly not connected to your campaign?
Republicans are big on “Individual Responsibility” and 0% for “Social Responsibility.” And this bill is just more of the same. Gutting of the EPA, the Education Department, USAID, the IRS, and more. Let’s get back to the days of rivers catching on fire.
A few of the recent actions of Republicans:
Deportation and Detention of Student Protesters and Foreign Scholars.
Denial of Due Process and sending people to foreign prisons.
Executive Actions Targeting Colleges and Universities.
Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms.
Stripping Power from Independent Regulatory Agencies.
DOGE Access to Government Payment Systems.
Executive Order Freezing Federal Grant Funding--affecting public health, education, small businesses, infrastructure projects, and funding for everything from infrastructure projects to lifesaving medical research at St. Jude, UTHSC, and other institutions. Killing cancer research? Really?
Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship.
Illegal mass termination of probationary federal employees. That should help efficiency.
Termination of employment for 80,000 Veterans.
Trashing the Social Security System as part of the decades-long effort to privatize it (read: profits). A program running for 89 years that has been instrumental in cutting senior poverty and ending poorhouses. What happens to SSI, Disability, and survivors’ benefits? It’s not just retirement. Note that Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget and the National Debt. Cutting benefits and raising retirement ages do not impact either.
Letting the Executive Branch illegally assume duties specifically allocated to Congress.
Arrest and intimidation of members of the Judicial Branch (coequal with Congress and the Executive branches).
Publicly insulting and trashing visiting Foreign heads of State
This doesn’t even touch on Congressional insider trading (that sent Martha Stewart to prison).
An Update from Rep. Michelle Fischbach
Tracking the Trump Administration's Harmful Executive Actions
Keith Wilson, retired
Resident of Minnesota’s 7th district
525 Dybdal Street
Wendell, MN 56590-0123
