Photo: Courtesy of 32BJ SEIU
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Healthcare workers rallied outside of Boston Medical Center Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s spending and tax bill.
Marlishia Aho, with the SEIU healthcare workers union, told WBZ NewsRadio that the budget bill would slash funds from essential federal programs for low-income families. In Massachusetts, she added that the funding cuts threaten to take away health insurance from nearly 300,000 residents.
“It takes money from Medicare, it takes money from food assistance, making people hungry," she said. "It drives it to this deportation machine as well as to billionaires."
President Trump signed the bill into law on July 4, after months of continuous debate from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Economists have predicted it will add more than $3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years.
Aho said it’s more important now than ever to speak up.
“We need to fight back and organize against these cuts because they are not permanent yet,” she said. “We know we can repeal them. There’s more of us than them.”
WBZ NewsRadio's Mike Macklin reports.