John,

Before Congress left town on a two-week recess, they took two disastrous votes.

First, the House passed the anti-democratic SAVE Act, which, if passed by the Senate, will disenfranchise tens of millions of voters across the country. This bill is a solution seeking a problem.

Using Donald Trump’s obsession with supposed rampant voter fraud (of which there is no evidence) as its excuse, House Republicans passed a bill that will require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote or update one’s voter registration―even as 69 million women don’t have a birth certificate with their current name and over half of Americans don’t possess a passport.

Forcing Americans to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register or update their registration disproportionately affects seniors, naturalized citizens, low-income individuals, rural voters, and women who have changed their names due to marriage. Getting or replacing a birth certificate or passport costs money, a new kind of “poll tax” blocking citizens with low incomes from voting.

Below, I’ll explain the second disastrous vote that Congress took before skipping town, but if you’ve read enough about these right-wing attacks on our democracy, donate today to fight back.

In their second and final vote before leaving town, Congress passed a right-wing draconian budget resolution, with an agreement that both the House and Senate will come up with $1.5 trillion in program cuts, likely to include more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP, to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for billionaires and major corporations. Congress agreed on a framework, but now they have to write specific bills making the cuts.

In order to secure the needed votes, Speaker Mike Johnson assured the right-wing Freedom Caucus gadflies that he’d cut more than enough from critical human needs to satisfy their desire to gut our social safety net. But as the impact of specific cuts becomes clear, getting a majority will become harder. We have to make it impossible.

With Congress home for a two-week recess, we’re working with allies to organize congressional meetings back in their home districts. They need to hear from us face to face that we reject their billionaire budget that rips health care and food away from children and older adults just to pad the pockets of their billionaire donors.

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Thank you for fighting for a future that includes all of us, not just the wealthy and corporations.

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs