Johnny Olszewski

04/10/2025 | Press release | Archived content

Olszewski Votes – Again – Against Republican Budget that Hurts Middle Class

(Washington, DC) - Congressman Johnny Olszewski today voted against the Senate Republican budgetresolution that provides $7 trillion in deficit-financed tax cuts for those that need them least, while gutting programs for middle class families struggling with higher costs. The bill passed the U.S. Houseof Representatives in a 216-214 vote.
The resolution makes permanent tax cuts approved under the first Trump Administration in 2017, which experts say will increase inflation, decrease the country's GDP and add trillions to the federal deficit. Households with incomes in the top 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000, according to the Tax Policy Center. Households in the bottom 60 percent, however, will receive less than $500.
"This resolution accomplishes the impossible: it's actually worse than the House budgetplan passed just two months ago," Congressman Olszewski said. "Congressional conservatives seem hell bent on making life as difficult as possible for middle class Americans who are begging us to lower their costs at the grocery store and gas station. They continue to side with President Trump, Elon Musk and their ultra-wealthy friends instead of the voters who put them in office."
In addition to borrowing, the tax cuts will be offset by gutting lifelines for struggling Marylanders, including the largest Medicaid cuts in American history. Student loan programs, nutrition assistance, government retirement benefits and previously-funded infrastructure projects are all also on the chopping block.
For Maryland's Second District, the budgetplan means:
  • The 29,000 people who receive coverage under the Affordable Care Act would see their average premium go up by $2,340 per year - a 110 percent increase. Many others could see premiums go up by $10,000 a year;
  • The 152,175 people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their healthcare completely;
  • The 49,000 people who count on SNAP to put food on the table could go hungry;
  • The 19,874 students who use Pell grants to help afford their education could lose their benefit.
"We are now 96 days into the Congressional session, and we have yet to take a single vote on a bill to lower costs for American families," Congressman Olszewski said. "I will continue to fight for the policies that grow our middle class and protect critical lifelines for struggling families."

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