A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill
Bishop William Barber Slams Bill That Cuts Medicaid, Medicare
As the Republican-sponsored budget bill advanced through Congress, Bishop William Barber spoke with Democracy Now.
The bill hurts low-income people.
“It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor and the elderly and the youth of our country,” says Barber, citing the bill’s cuts to essential social services like Medicaid and paralleling those cuts to the government’s funding of defense and deportation initiatives.
“We have to start talking about this budget as a form of social and political murder.”
