Over the past several months, often secretively and often aided by the incessant swirl of rumors about Russia, Republicans have been marching forward with their plan to deliver massive tax cuts to the rich, both through the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a separate tax reform bill. Though Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has delayed a vote on the health bill until after the Fourth of July, there’s every indication that — one way or another — the GOP will push some combination of tax cuts across the goal line. 

After all, both the health bill and the tax bill would accomplish the GOP’s primary legislative goal: redistributing wealth and income upward.

Studies by independent outlets like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Tax Policy Center have found that the health care bill would strip insurance from more than 20 million (primarily poor and elderly) people while handing tax cuts to the rich, and that the GOP’s tax proposals would slash taxes for the rich even further while inflating the deficit.