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Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.
Proposed cuts to the country’s largest food aid program could slash benefits currently going to one in six Oregonians or shift more than $1 billion in program costs to the state in each two-year budget cycle.
Republicans want to force new federal workers to choose between losing job protections and paying for them. One union official calls it "criminal extortion."
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President Trump met with holdouts again Wednesday as leaders ramp up their efforts to build support around the bill.
The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago while supporting increased mining, drilling and other traditional energy production.
In their fiscal package, Republicans have slipped in a hodgepodge of tweaks that are, at times, only tangentially related to the rest of the bill.