In 2025, Congress passed a budget resolution authorizing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts through 2034, and most of it was for the super wealthy and big corporations.

To pay for all of this, congressional Republicans added trillions to the debt and cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. As a result, about 15 million Americans could lose health care, including 500,000 Ohioans.

The middle-class tax cuts President Donald Trump touted in his spending bill were small compared with the cuts they gave the rich. In fact, the middle-class cuts could easily have been fully paid for by raising taxes only slightly on the richest Americans. 

Unfortunately, that’s not what Congress did, and it’s part of a dangerous pattern of using debt − and cuts to investments for working people − to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. 

Former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a very important opinion piece in May about our national debt, "It's time for urgency and hard choices as US debt soars."

The debt is a crisis and requires action. 

Imagine what the US could do with $1 trillion

Taxpayers are now spending about $1 trillion a year on debt-related interest payments. Imagine what we could do with $1 trillion − cut middle-class taxes, expand health care, build more housing, provide rent relief, increase teacher pay, pave more roads, hire more police officers and firefighters. 

Beyond the cost to taxpayers, it is a major national........

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