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This Isn’t Reform. It’s a War on the Working Class

This $3.8 trillion bill slashes healthcare, guts food aid, and rewards billionaires all in the name of “reform.” It’s not trickle-down. It’s punch-down.

Over the weekend, the U.S. Senate narrowly passed a 940-page, $3.8 trillion mega bill championed by the Trump administration, by a razor-thin margin of 51 to 49. The headlines call it a “legislative victory.” But let’s stop pretending. This isn’t reform.

This is legalized class warfare.

Let’s break it down:

What’s in the Bill?

At first glance, the package looks like a classic Republican wishlist:

  • ✅ Permanent extension of Trump-era tax cuts for the wealthy

  • ✅ $350 billion to ramp up border enforcement and immigrant deportation

  • ✅ New tax deductions for buying American-made vehicles

  • ✅ No federal tax on tips and overtime

All of this is marketed as “economic relief.” But the reality is brutal.

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Who Pays for It?

You do. If you’re not rich.

To “balance” the massive cost, the bill slashes:

  • ❌ Medicaid - putting 10.9 million people at risk of losing healthcare

  • ❌ SNAP food assistance - impacting over 3 million low-income families

  • ❌ Clean energy investments - gutting an entire sector of future jobs

This isn’t policy - it’s a transfer of risk and suffering.
The government is telling you, straight up:
We’re cutting taxes for the rich, and we’ll pay for it by cutting your survival.

💬 “They’re reducing taxes for billionaires by dismantling the safety nets that keep ordinary Americans alive.”

Even Elon Musk - hardly a socialist - came out against the bill, warning it’s just “a giant subsidy for the fossil fuel era” that will “strategically destroy” green innovation.

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