John,

On Monday, April 28th, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II  launched Moral Mondays with clergy, moral leaders, and scores of people who will be directly impacted by the disastrous budget that Congress has just come back into session to work on. $1.5 trillion cannot be cut from the federal budget without slashing Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, Head Start, Section 8, and other life-saving and life-sustaining programs that millions of Americans rely on. These cuts will hurt poor and directly-impacted people first and worst. This is not a Republican versus Democrat debate. It's a life or death decision.

Join us to break the silence and make calls to ensure that our elected leaders in District of Columbia hear directly from poor and low-wage communities, faith leaders, and advocates about the issues impacting us most. We demand a moral budget, and not a death-dealing scheme! Somebody's hurting our brothers and sisters and we can't and won't be silent anymore!

No one would be fighting this hard to pass a budget that is so extreme if they were not afraid. The extreme minority of elites promoting this disastrous budget understand the potential power of a coalition of people coming together across race and region, across faiths and family traditions, to build an America that works for all of us. In fact, they may understand better than many of us do how much power we have. John, can we count on you to join us for our next training? Congress needs to hear from you and others in your state.

We can win! Let’s keep up the pressure!

Forward together, 

Poor People's Campaign Field Team