John,
House Republicans just passed one of the most devastating attacks on basic public services in decades. Their budget proposal calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and other public services workers and families rely on to make ends meet. [1] They’re cutting these services to help pay for tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy and big corporations.
Worse still? Even if they make these devastating cuts, they’ll still run up trillions of dollars in public debt to cover the remaining cost of their handouts-to-the-rich tax cuts. Those deficits will eventually endanger Social Security and Medicare, the very programs that millions of Americans have paid into their entire working lives.
These aren’t “entitlements” or giveaways. They are earned benefits. You put in your fair share. You built these programs with every paycheck. Now, Republicans are trying to pay for their $4.5 trillion tax cut that mostly benefits the rich and corporations by running up huge debt that could imperil those benefits you’ve earned. They’d take away your retirement and healthcare just so billionaires and big businesses can pay even less in taxes. [2]
Their budget is packed with giveaways to billionaires and corporations while gutting the programs that keep millions of Americans out of poverty. This is not a cost-saving measure. It is a deliberate decision to take from working families to give to the rich.
There is no middle ground. There is no hiding behind empty rhetoric. We need a public commitment from our elected leaders not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
Let’s make sure every member of Congress goes on the record: Do they stand with working families, retirees, and people with disabilities, or are they selling out to billionaires?
The numbers expose the sheer scale of this betrayal. In Republican-held districts across the country, the number of people who rely on Medicaid is larger than the margin that put these politicians in office.
They are knowingly voting to take away healthcare from the very people who elected them. In Arizona, Rep. Juan Ciscomani won his last election by just over 10,800 votes, yet more than 70,000 people in his district depend on Medicaid to survive. If he votes for these cuts, he is betraying seven times as many people as those who put him in office. In Iowa, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks barely won her last election: her winning margin was just 799 votes. Yet in her district, over 50,000 children and 58,000 adults rely on Medicaid for their healthcare. If she votes for these cuts, she will be personally responsible for throwing tens of thousands of her own constituents into crisis.
These Republicans know exactly what they’re doing. That’s why they are avoiding public discussion of these cuts. That’s why they are burying them in a sea of budget jargon, hoping no one will connect the dots until it’s too late. But this is not just a bad policy decision—it is a deliberate, calculated assault on working families, seniors, and the most vulnerable members of our society.
The fight is happening right now. If we don’t act immediately, these cuts will move forward. Every day that Republicans don’t hear from their constituents is a day they believe they can get away with this theft. They need to be confronted with the reality that the American people are watching, and they will be held accountable.
Tell Congress: Take the No Cuts Pledge. Make it clear any politician who votes for these cuts is voting to betray their own constituents.
Thank you for standing with us in this crucial fight,
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] Dozens of GOP House Members Won Their Seats By Fewer Voters Than District Residents Who Could Be Hurt by Trump Budget & Personnel Cuts
[2] The Cost and Distribution of Extending Expiring Provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
