Trump’s America: The Ultra-Wealthy Get Tax Breaks, Families Get Detention Camps

Washington, D.C. – Early this morning, House Republicans passed a sweeping domestic bill that slashes Medicaid, food assistance, and education to fund massive tax breaks for the rich and supercharge Trump’s mass deportation infrastructure. The measure narrowly passed 215–214 and now heads to the Senate. A detailed breakdown of the bill—and what the $150 billion set aside for Trump’s cruel immigration agenda could fund instead—is available here.

Statement from Kerri Talbot, Co-Executive Director of the Immigration Hub:

“This bill is not just cruel—it’s historic in its scale and intent to harm all families. It marks one of the largest transfers of wealth in American history: from working families to billionaires, and from community care to mass detention. It strips health care from millions, slashes food assistance, and guts education funding only to hand billions to the ultra-rich and bankroll what could become the largest detention system the world has ever seen.

Families are already being torn apart—U.S. citizens wrongfully detained, cancer patients deported, children left behind on the streets. This bill will imprison them in make-shift tent cities, while others are shipped off to Trump’s global network of foreign gulags–in countries like Libya and South Sudan–in blatant defiance of court orders.

Americans are right to be outraged. With this vote, House Republicans have not only endorsed this dystopian vision—they’ve agreed to make taxpayers foot the bill. Voters’ hard-earned money should not be used to fund cruelty, criminalize dissent, or dismantle democracy. They won’t forget who made them pay for it.”

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