Commentary:Trump-GOP budget poses dire threat to Oregon’s patients, hospitals and nurses

Tamie Cline, president of the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), has spent 22 years working as a nurse at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston. Good Shepherd is one of more than 700 rural hospitals across the country at risk of closure because of the newly passed GOP budget.

To cut trillions in taxes for corporations and the wealthy, the so-called “Beautiful Bill” slashes federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and…