DES MOINES — The Trump administration’s newly-released budget shows aggressive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, leading an Iowa activist group to cry foul.
The proposed budget will cut $70 billion from Social Security, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid.
“It’s unfortunate but predictable that this budget punishes Iowa families so aggressively, given Senator Ernst’s comments about her party’s need to ‘fix’ Social Security ‘behind closed doors’”, said Emily Holley, executive director of Iowa Voices, a group which seeks to protect those programs by influencing elected officials like Ernst and Senator Charles Grassley. “Senator Ernst has said time and again that she would stand up for Iowans’ health care, and she now has the opportunity to do so by publicly rejecting this budget.”
Iowa Voices called on Senators Ernst and Grassley to stand with Iowans and fight against these harmful cuts to essential programs.