John,

The threats to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical human needs programs are serious with the proposed “fiscal commission.”

Extremists in Congress continue to parrot the line that the only way to reduce the federal deficit is by enacting drastic cuts in non-defense spending. We know this is not true: if you want to reduce a deficit, you increase revenue by making those at the top pay more of their fair share.

Examples Congress could consider right now are the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax to ensure billionaires are paying income taxes each year, just like working people; increase the stock buyback tax from 1% to 4%; tax investment income at the same rate as income from work; and raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to at least 28%.

Instead, conservatives want to rely on cuts to critical programs―but we know we can’t cut our way to prosperity.

Congress must make a choice of who is more important: billionaires and wealthy corporations or the American people?

Donate today to help us fight back against a fiscal commission and instead demand the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share.

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Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Tax cheats cost the U.S. $1 trillion per year, I.R.S. chief says.
² Extending Trump Tax Cuts Would Add $3.5 Trillion to the Deficit, According to CBO

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John,

Congressional Republicans love to talk about debt and deficits, but over and over again hand out giant tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations. Their only solution is cuts to critical programs including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and more.

That’s what we can expect from the so-called “fiscal commission,” which has passed out of the House Budget Committee, and members now want to attach to must-pass government funding bills coming up soon.

This is a blatant attempt to ram through a commission under the guise of fiscal responsibility and then turn around and cut critical programs and services behind closed doors. 81% of registered voters disapprove of cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and 82% of voters support increasing funding for these programs.¹

We must defeat this fiscal commission now.

Rush a donation to fight back against attempts to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and more behind closed doors!

Speaker Mike Johnson has not been shy about his desire to cut our earned benefits. In resurfaced clips from a talk he gave at the American Enterprise Institute back in 2018, Johnson states that cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are something “we have to get back to … as the number 1 priority”,² further claiming Social Security and Medicare pose an existential threat to “our whole form of government.”³

As Chair of the Republican Study Committee, Johnson called for raising the full Social Security retirement age and Medicare eligibility age to 69. He called for slowing down Social Security cost-of-living increases and called for increases to Medicare premiums.⁴

But that’s not all. A fiscal commission puts cuts to all critical human needs programs on the table, fast-tracked and unamendable.

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Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Vast Majorities of Americans Intensely Support Increasing Funding for Programs
² https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1717159919416184909?s=20
³ https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1717190984499425785?s=20
⁴Here’s why Social Security and Medicare advocates fear Mike Johnson’s speakership