Friend,

Following the global Microsoft outage last week, Delta Air Lines went into
a tailspin, cancelling more flights in five days than in all of 2018 and
2019 combined.(1)

The airline said it would offer the thousands of affected passengers
travel waivers — but Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was quick
to let the public know that under new federal regulations, Delta customers
are entitled to full refunds.(2)

That’s the way the Biden/Harris administration has been fighting for us.
But Donald Trump’s Project 2025 -- the extremist, far right plan for his
second term -- undoes the good work that protects American consumers and
would instead serve the ultra-wealthy (like Delta CEO Ed Bastian, who was
able to fly to Paris while his company grounded everyone else).(3)

Thousands of Courage California members shared our email earlier this week
with how Project 2025 will wreck our environment. Now let’s look at four
ways the plan will damage our financial well-being:

 1. Eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). By stopping
junk fees, creating new rules for lending money, and giving us a place
to file complaints against corporate money grabs, the CFPB has saved
American consumers more than $20 billion in the years since it was
established.(4) Project 2025 would eliminate the agency entirely and
reverse bank regulations established by the Dodd-Frank Act.(5)
 2. Hamstring the Department of Transportation. The Department of
Transportation’s programs would be significantly defunded, and the new
regulations would likely be reversed by Trump acolytes appointed to
run the department.(6)
 3. End student loan forgiveness. All student loan relief would come to an
end, as Project 2025 states that all borrowers would repay their
loans.(7)
 4. Overhaul income taxes to benefit the wealthy. The progressive tax
system would be replaced with two tax brackets -- 15% for everyone
making under $168,000 a year, and 30% for everyone making more. The
Child Tax Credit would be eliminated. The average American family
would pay $6,600 more a year in taxes. But someone making $5 million a
year would see a $325,000 tax cut.(8)

We’ve already made great strides in educating people about Project 2025 --
and the more they know, the more they disagree with MAGA.[(9) So help us
by forwarding this email and sharing our social media posts about how
Project 2025 attacks our financial security!

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Yours in the fight for our planet!

–Irene, Annie, Angela, Isidra, Mario, Marvin, Alyssa, Jen, Cecilia, and
Lindsay (the Courage team)

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