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This week, House committees are marking up pieces of the American Rescue Plan to provide desperately needed relief to American families. Today, four House Committees are marking up their portions of the American Rescue Plan. As you cover these markups, we wanted to be sure you had a few stats in mind:

 

This week, House committees begin marking up pieces of the American Rescue Plan to provide desperately needed relief to American families.
 

With over 30 million Americans – that’s one in FIVE workers – set to lose a critical lifeline after today, we wanted to be sure you saw this quote from Senator McConnell back in May.
 

The reviews of the President’s budget are in, and they are not kind. They point out the unrealistic economic growth assumptions, the massive deficits and debt, and his broken promise to protect programs like Medicare. Check it out:

From Politico:

“President Donald Trump sent another fantasy budget to Congress on Monday, thumbing his nose at the very spending levels he signed into law last summer.”

President Trump’s budget released yesterday clearly outlines his priorities: the wealthiest Americans come first, while working families are left behind. After he promised to protect Medicare, Medicaid, and access to affordable health care, the President’s budget proposes destructive cuts to these programs and continues this Administration’s assault on American’s health care. With the budget revealing even more of the President’s hypocrisy, we know you are dying to see how far the GOP will go to defend him.

Axios provided a reality check for President Trump this morning: you can’t protect Americans with pre-existing conditions if you sabotage them in court:

During a special order hour led by Mr. Hoyer, House Democrats took to the Floor and discussed newly-released reports from the Joint Economic Committee this week.

Tax cuts have never paid for themselves, but that’s not stopping the Trump Administration from repeating that falsehood over and over again. Today’s editorial from the New York Times calls out the Administration for repeatedly claiming that the GOP tax scam would not add to the deficit, even after they caused the deficit to exploded.