John,

Before Congress left town on a two-week recess, Republican leaders twisted enough arms to get their budget resolution through the House on a party-line vote.

This budget resolution serves as instructions for congressional committees to draft specific legislation to cut essential services, which harms our communities in order to double down on Trump’s tax scam for billionaires and large profitable corporations.

Earlier in the week, Trump invited Republicans up to the White House who were on the fence on the GOP budget. Between that and a promise by Congressional leaders that they would seek deep cuts to basic needs programs, it was enough to get the blueprint for their budget passed by Congress, setting the stage to slash $1.5 trillion from vital services, including more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for billionaires and major corporations.¹

But this fight is not over.

The American people are outraged at the relentless attacks on our health care, nutrition, education, and more. And they’re even more outraged when they learn that these proposed cuts are not about a balanced budget, but are simply meant to pay for more tax handouts to the ultra-wealthy.

We’re organizing local advocates to visit congressional offices during Congress’ two-week recess along with inviting policymakers to visit community programs to see programs firsthand. Will you rush a donation today to power our grassroots push to hold Congress accountable?

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

¹ Trump says he is in favor of spending cuts

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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.

Rush a donation today to power our grassroots lobbying efforts to demand a government of, by, and for the people, not billionaires.