John,

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will hold a vote this week on his bill that’s a bad deal for the American people, but a good deal for wealthy and corporate tax cheats and corporate polluters.

For months, McCarthy and House Republicans have been holding the country’s economy hostage, demanding cuts to the Social Security Administration, housing, education, and more―plus, he wants to impose even more stringent work requirements on low-income people receiving Medicaid healthcare and SNAP food benefits.

But he’s not just demanding cuts to critical programs and services for working families.

McCarthy plans to eliminate billions of dollars in IRS funding that Democrats passed last year to finally allow the IRS to crack down on wealthy and corporate tax cheats. And he wants to roll back environmental regulations in order to fast track fossil fuel extraction by greedy corporations.

Click here to send a message to your U.S. representative and demand they vote NO on Kevin McCarthy’s bad deal. Instead of cutting critical programs and services, we’re demanding Congress hold a clean debt ceiling vote to protect the U.S. economy from a catastrophic federal default.

Here’s a look at just some of the cuts McCarthy’s proposed budget would enact, assuming he exempts the Pentagon from cuts:

• Head Start would be forced to eliminate 200,000 slots for children in families with low incomes.

• 101,000 child care slots would be eliminated.

• More than 1 million older adults would lose meals—in many cases their only meal of the day.

• 640,000 families would lose their housing vouchers, more than a quarter of the 2.3 million households now using vouchers; other cuts in affordable housing programs would affect hundreds of thousands of additional households.

• The Social Security Administration could be gutted. For every $100 million cut, 1,000 people would have to be laid off—the equivalent of closing 40 field offices—at a time when 10,000 Baby Boomers per day are retiring, and people with disabilities are already forced to wait many months for their applications to be processed.

• The funding reduction for K-12 education in low-income communities would equal the loss of 60,000 teachers.

• Indian Health Services—which is already severely underfunded—would see a cut of $327 million.

• And, the raking back of unspent COVID-19 funding would result in billions of dollars in lost investments for communities in need.

While Speaker McCarthy and his caucus claim they won’t cut Social Security, cuts to the Social Security Administration would put up barriers between us and our earned benefits, creating longer wait times for people applying for benefits, including people with disabilities.

Click here to take action and send a message directly to your representative. Demand that they reject Kevin McCarthy’s bad deal and hold a clean debt ceiling vote to allow the federal government to pay the bills Congress has already incurred.

While House Republicans claim the only way to address the debt and deficit is through cuts to critical programs and services, we’ve seen from President Biden’s proposed budget that we can make investments in working families when corporations and the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes.

Thank you for taking action today,

David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund