Rural Organizing - The proposed budget creates a devastating double blow for rural America. Many cash-strapped rural counties will be forced to pay hundreds of millions more to administer federal programs like SNAP and Medicaid, while simultaneously losing the infrastructure investments they desperately need to compete economically.
Perhaps most concerning, this budget breaks a generational contract with rural communities. For decades, revenue from natural resources extracted from rural lands has funded essential services like schools, roads, and public health programs. Now, that money will be redirected to pay for tax cuts benefiting wealthy taxpayers instead of supporting the communities that produce these resources.
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