MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rep. Maggie Goodlander said during her “Conversation with the Community” installment that the GOP’s tax and budget bill passed in May, called H.R. 1, is the biggest cut to “basic health care that the state relies on.”

She said that the budget cuts are going to hurt New Hampshire taxpayers, and that mitigating these effects is a prime concern.

“I have no higher priority because I know that the burden of these cuts to health care, to food assistance, to education, these basic cuts to education, are ultimately going to fall on the shoulders of hardworking people in New Hampshire,” Goodlander said. “And that’s not right.”

Goodlander said that the cuts will increase the national deficit “more than ever before in American history.”

She also criticized the budget bill by saying that it supports billionaires and large corporations through tax breaks, while claiming local communities are harmed in the process.

“At the end of the day, I don’t think that we voted for billionaires and big corporations to get the biggest tax break that we’ve seen in a generation,” Goodlander said.

WMUR’s partners at PolitiFact recently analyzed the bill, and said it will add between $3 trillion and $4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.

See Goodlander’s full comments about the spending bill in the video player above.

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