Sue Dinsdale is the Executive Director of Iowa Citizen Action Network and the State Lead for Health Care for America NOW.
Politicians in Washington, D.C. are getting ready to shut down the federal government once again, despite single-party Republican control of the House, Senate, and the presidency.
This time, disagreements in Congress over health care costs and access are preventing an agreement that would keep critical services going without interruption.
Earlier this year, Republicans in Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed a massive budget reconciliation bill, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which extended trillions of dollars in tax breaks that would otherwise have expired this year. The lion’s share of those tax breaks will go to wealthy households making over $400,000 a year and to large corporations through extra loopholes that were reinstated in the law.
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