Ansari, Hobbs, and Stanton Condemn the MAGA Angel of Death Tax Cut for the Wealthy-Screw Everyone Else Bill

With House Republican Leadership currently stalling procedural votes and looking to convince the last few members needed to pass American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, Traitor, and 34 Time Convicted for Business Fraud, Liable for sexual assault Donald ‘I bankrupted a casino’ Trump’s MAGA Project 2025 economic Angel of Death Tax Cut for the Wealthy-Screw Everyone Else bill, Arizona House Representatives Yassamin Ansari and Greg Stanton held an afternoon presser explaining the reasons this reverse Robin Hood take from the poor and give to the rich program is bad for the country and the American People.

These four House Republicans still sitting on the fence are not moderates worried about how cuts to programs like Medicaid, Food Stamps, Education, and Clean Energy, will hurt people.

These are the despicable “Free Caucus” ones that want worse cuts that will hurt people more.

Saying “The Legislation is atrocious,” “A big betrayal to all Americans” and “It is not an exaggeration to say that people will literally die as a result” of this Project 2025 MAGA economic program, Representative Ansari, fresh off her and surrogates spending 16 hours yesterday reading the legislation, cited all the reasons this bill, in House or Senate form, is bad for Arizonans and the rest of the American People, including:

• The largest cuts to Medicaid which could result in “335,000 Arizonans losing health insurance.”
• The largest cuts to SNAP/Food Stamps.
• Cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood.
• Increasing, despited the professed concern of Arizona’s Republicans, the deficit and national debt.
• Funding ICE so they can expand their operations to “blatantly target” and arrest any Latino (including innocent people) deemed suspicious of being in this country in order to meet quotas and fill the newly emerging detention (concentration) camps built by MAGA corporate donors.
• The job loss of vital blue and green collar jobs because of cuts to infrastructure and clean energy projects in the Grand Canyon state in both Republican and Democratic Districts.

Later in an Instagram post to her followers on social media, she called the Republicans “out of control” and their Project 2025 Angel of Death tax cut for the rich while screwing everyone else plan “horrific, devastating, shitty.”

In his remarks, Representative Stanton relayed many of the same points as Congresswoman Ansari, saying “This is going to be devastating for the people of Arizona” and “How disastrous this bill will be for people’s health care, our economy, and for children who receive SNAP benefits.”

Mr. Stanton also pointed out specifically what could happen to people if this measure passed including:

• People finding it harder to see their primary care physician.
• Rural hospitals that serve Native American and many Republican leaning areas would be forced to close.
• Taking children away from vital nutrition programs.
• Gutting the clean energy tax credits that has helped create an economic boom for the state to the tune of “$58 billion in investment” and its approximately “70,000” workers.
• Border security which everyone supports but lacks comprehensive immigration reform, saying “now it’s time to to actually move forward with actual real immigration reform that will help grow and advance the people of Arizona.”

Later during the question and answer session, Representative Stanton expanded when asked by reporters (including this one) on the adverse health impact to Arizonans if this legislation passes.

Crediting Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for being the driving force for expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, Stanton said that if Trump and his MAGA supporters are successful in this Project 2025 Trickle Down Bill, people and the economy will suffer because:

• People will stop getting preventive care like cancer screenings.
• People will stop going to their Primary Care physician and go to the more expensive Emergency Room when their health conditions worse.
• Private insurance companies will shift the emergency room costs to those on their plans to cover the increasing financial shortfalls from people not paying their emergency room bills.

In his comment to my question on could people die if this measure passes, Representative Stanton said:

“Look, we know that if you take Health Care away from people and they don’t have access to see a primary care physician, don’t get preventative medicine, don’t get early screenings for cancer. for example, People will die as a result of this decision. This is not a controversial statement. It is a tragedy and for giving people access to a primary care physician, whether it be in a federal qualified health center or just through any Provider of their choice, provides a higher quality of life. They live longer lives. They live a better quality, and it allows them to have early screenings for possibly devastating conditions, so it’s not an exaggeration in any regard.”

Representative Ansari picked up on Stanton’s remarks and commented:

“Yeah, I mean, like you (Stanton) said, Who are you (The Republican Congressmen) working for? It is just despicable that some of these, you know, Republicans hear in Congress and and the ones who represent Arizona are so fearful of Donald Trump. And, as he (Stanton)says that they are willing to turn their backs on their constituents in such a major major way that is going to be so devastating to so many people. The healthcare cuts are a matter of life and death. The job losses and Environment and our health are significant.”

She also condemned JD Vances remarks that the cutting of Medicare and SNAP for middle and working class Americans and their children was “immaterial” when compared to the necessity of carrying out Donald Trump’s mass kidnappings of Latinos on American streets, saying “I think that tells you everything that you need to know about how, What a big betrayal this bill is to Americans.”

Representative Ansari also reminded the journalists at the event that there is nothing in this bill that makes life more affordable for American Citizens, saying “They (the American People) can’t afford housing. They can’t afford Health Care. They are worried about being able to afford college for their kids” and the current legislation does nothing to address that or makes the situation worse.

Representative Stanton closed the presser with the below remarks.

“When we take 17 million Americans off of Medicaid, and therefore they have to receive Health Care at emergency rooms and uncompensated care, that cost will be passed on to everyone else, so people, your cost of getting private health care is going to go up. Same thing with energy costs. Clean energy is less expensive than oil and gas, and if we take clean energy off the table as the Republicans are trying to do, that means energy costs are going to go up for the rest of us. This bill is actually going to add costs to so many, Americans, because of the policy choices that they’re making.”

Earlier in the day, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs wrote a letter to Arizona’s Congressional Delegation, imploring them not to support this harmful legislation, stating in a press release:

“Yesterday, I celebrated the signing of a bipartisan state budget that moves us closer to providing opportunity, security, and freedom for every Arizonan. We got it done by putting politics aside and putting Arizona first. That budget will help secure the border, improve public safety, deliver over 10 million free school meals to children of working class parents, and invest in public education. All while protecting Arizonans with disabilities from devastating Medicaid cuts. Congress must follow our lead and reject this deeply partisan legislation that will kick hundreds of thousands of Arizonans off their health care, slash food assistance for working class families, and threaten Arizona’s advanced manufacturing boom.“

“As elected officials, we are called to put the best interests of the people we represent over partisan politics. Now is a time to do just that and reject this dangerous legislation. This bill is not a conservative solution; it is a reckless gamble that puts our most vulnerable at risk, explodes the deficit, and pushes unsustainable costs to the State of Arizona that our taxpayers cannot absorb.”

In the letter, the Governor asks the House delegation to:

• Reject to Medicaid phaseout of the provider tax program.
• Block the cost shifting in the SNAP program.
• Preserve the clean energy and manufacturing tax credits.
• Make companies eligible for clean energy tax credits if they begin construction before the end of 2027.