In 2018, when they read Trump’s budget for the next fiscal year, Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) noted that if you add together the George W. Bush tax cuts for the rich and the Trump 2017 tax cuts for the rich, “Republicans will have sent a whopping $2 trillion to [a] small sliver of the richest Americans.” The senators went on, “In their proposed budget, Republicans in Congress are now wanting to pay for those special interest tax breaks by taking that same $2 trillion out of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Affordable Care Act.”
