John, last week, Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy introduced his budget — a right-wing wish list that's as bad as we expected.

Just like the ultra-conservative Republican Study Committee proposal released earlier this year, McCarthy is calling for a decade of deep reductions in spending. If, as expected, they exempt the Pentagon from the cuts, in the first year it will be an across-the-board 22% cut on virtually everything else.

McCarthy’s proposed budget cuts would have a chilling effect on programs relied upon by millions of people. These are just some of the possible effects:

Foundational environmental laws and regilations would be rolled back.
Head Start funding reductions would 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 out of the 2.3 million households now using vouchers.
"Catastrophic" cuts to the Social Security Administration.
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.

This is a bad deal that will hurt millions.

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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.

And his additional, stringent restrictions on Medicaid and SNAP food benefits would hurt millions of people with low and no incomes.

Let's reject this deal. Send a message to your representative today.

Thank you,

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