Dear MoveOn member,
Under the cover of darkness Tuesday night, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to take away health care, food assistance, and even child care and preschool education from their constituents to fund their tax cuts for the rich.1
The House passed a budget reconciliation bill that would give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk.2
To pay for it, the bill orders $2 trillion in cuts from programs like Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Head Start.3
We are now a giant step closer to making Musk's drastic DOGE cuts the law of the land, and it's up to the Senate to put a stop to this travesty. If we are going to stop the decimation of support for millions of people, we have to pull out all the stops to make sure Republicans hear loudly from their constituents and MoveOn members like you about how unpopular this bill is.
Trump and his MAGA Congress are trying to rush through a budget that betrays working families and will harm us in a multitude of ways, while deepening income inequality, which is already at a breaking point in our country. We need to sound the alarm LOUDLY and QUICKLY.
Will you donate $5 a month to power and sustain MoveOn's campaign to help stop Republicans from passing these massive tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy?
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Speaker Johnson is trying to sell the American public on the idea that MAGA Is simply ridding the government of "fraud" and "waste."4
It's BS, plain and simple.
$2 trillion is more than one-third of all government spending.5 The $1.1 trillion MAGA wants to hand to billionaires in the first year is the equivalent of all Medicaid and SNAP funding.6
There is just no way to cut $2 trillion from government spending (especially as the Republican bill increases border security and military funding) without program-ending cuts to health care, green energy, and education.
So while 72 million people rely on Medicaid for health care, Trump and Speaker Johnson are trying to cut our entire social safety net to give money back to people making more than $743,000 a year.7
Will you pitch in $5 monthly to power MoveOn's efforts to shut down this horrifying budget bill and fuel our work to stop more cuts to lifesaving programs?
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However, there is a silver lining in the middle of this dumpster fire.
The cuts that MAGA is proposing are deeply unpopular. Almost three-quarters of voters oppose Medicaid cuts, and the vast majority want more spending on education and Social Security.8,9
The more people hear of this bill, the more they'll fight it—and Speaker Johnson managed to pass his bill by only one vote.10 Every Democrat voted against it, including one who carried her 1-month-old infant onto the floor to vote! We can make this bill so unpopular in the Senate that even Republicans won't touch it.
We need to make sure as many voices as possible are raised to stop Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy at our expense.
That work includes MoveOn's undertaking a massive effort to move our digital tools—including the system we use to send you emails like this—to platforms that are aligned with the progressive movement. All while we are also running a full-court press to protect our communities by stopping Trump's chaos, as he further enriches these same billionaires.
We need you with us today. Will you start a $5 monthly donation?
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Thanks for all you do.
–Toni, Jensine, Olga, Amy, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Trump budget bill extending first-term tax cuts survives House vote," Fox News, February 25, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202890?t=8&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
2. Ibid.
3. "House Budget Would Increase Costs and Hardship for Many While Providing Huge Tax Breaks for a Wealthy Few," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 25, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202891?t=10&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
4. "Trump budget bill extending first-term tax cuts survives House vote," Fox News, February 25, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202890?t=12&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
5. "Musk says he can cut $2 trillion from budget at Trump rally," Fortune, October 28, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/202892?t=14&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
6. "House Budget Would Increase Costs and Hardship for Many While Providing Huge Tax Breaks for a Wealthy Few," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 25, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202891?t=16&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
7. Ibid.
8. "71 percent of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts: Poll," The Hill, February 25, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202893?t=18&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
9. "Where U.S. adults think the government is spending too much and too little, according to AP-NORC poll," PBS News, February 14, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202894?t=20&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
10. "House Passes G.O.P. Budget Teeing Up Enormous Tax and Spending Cuts," The New York Times, February 26, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202884?t=22&akid=426689%2E40999114%2EDEwIq6
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