The Hill News

House Republican leaders have released their plan for fundingâ€"or defundingâ€"the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, and their draconian cuts are devastating to women and girls at every stage of their lives. The same House Republican leaders who voted to extend lavish tax breaks for the very wealthiest are now insisting that those who can least afford it sacrifice the most.

If the House passes H.R.1, the  Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, girls and women would bear a heavy burdenâ€"from girls in early childhood programs to women in their working and childbearing years to women in retirement.

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