John,
Senators may be home for their Memorial Day recess, but we’re making sure they don’t get any rest. We’re ramping up our pressure, demanding they reject the House-passed Billionaire Budget, which steals from vulnerable people to hand even more tax breaks to the rich.
All along, we’ve been making this House bill as toxic as possible, not just writing to Representatives, but writing to Senators too, demanding they reject cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to pay for their $5.5 trillion tax scam. We’ve been meeting with House AND Senate offices, making sure they hear loud and clear from constituents that oppose this horrible bill. And we’re supporting our national and local coalition partners, making sure they have the resources they need to make their voices heard—whether at all-night vigils, rallies with members of Congress, or local town halls and events.
Our goal is for the House budget package to die a quick death in the Senate when they return in June. And we’re making sure that, if they do move forward, their plan looks radically different—to stop their plans to reduce SNAP benefits for all participants by $180 per year at a time of high grocery costs, make sure 3+ million SNAP participants1 don’t get kicked off the program, and keep health coverage for roughly 15 million people that would become uninsured under the House plan.2
But, already, we’re seeing Senators like Ron Johnson (R-WI), saying that this bill doesn’t go far enough, urging his colleagues to make even deeper cuts.3
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I know many of us are outraged about the House package—and it’s easy to feel defeated and give up our efforts. But our work is making a difference—and policymakers are trying to hide the truth about how awful the House-passed package is. Senators are voicing their concerns, and we need to make sure they hear loud and clear that people reject tradeoffs like these:4
Together, we will not stop raising our voices, demanding Congress listen to their constituents, not Wall Street lobbyists looking for tax giveaways funded by gutting basic needs programs.
Thank you for powering our critical campaign today.
Meredith Dodson
Senior Public Policy Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 May 22, 2025 Congressional Budget Office Letter to Agriculture Committees
2 By the Numbers: House Bill Takes Health Coverage Away From Millions of People and Raises Families’ Health Care Costs
3 ‘We can’t afford it’: Senate GOP balks at House megabill as messy fight awaits
4 https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/house-republican-tax-bill-is-skewed-to-wealthy-costs-more-than-extending-2017
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John,
Our fight to stop this Billionaire Budget is far from over.
Over the last several months, as we were sending hundreds of thousands of messages to Congress opposing the largest transfer of wealth from working families to the richest 1%, we weren’t just sending messages to Representatives. We were sending them to Senators too.
And, in addition to meeting with House Republican offices, bringing with us constituents who would be directly impacted by cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, we have been meeting with Senate offices too.
That’s because we needed to make this bill as toxic as possible in the Senate. And our work is already paying off.
In response to House-passage of this ugly budget, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told reporters, “I have said and made clear that I do not want to take away Medicaid benefits.”1
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that the Child Tax Credit “needs to be higher”2 and is also sounding the alarm about Medicaid cuts.3
Yet, some Senators like Ron Johnson (R-WI), feel that the more than $1.5 trillion in basic needs cuts don’t go far enough.4 Can he and others be convinced to eliminate the primary driver of this debt-fueled bill―the $5.5 trillion tax scam for the rich?
With Senators headed home for a week-long Memorial Day recess, we’re not letting them rest. We’re keeping the pressure on members in their home states and districts, letting them know that we’re watching―that Congress can’t pass a disastrous budget package in the wee hours of the morning, without consequences.
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A theme throughout this House budget? Attacking immigrant communities. The House budget penalizes 14 states for using their own budgets to cover undocumented immigrants, primarily children, by withholding Medicaid funding. It also takes the Child Tax Credit away from 4.5 million children whose families pay taxes but have a parent who does not have a Social Security number. And it restricts Federal Student Aid, Medicare, SNAP, and the Affordable Care Act for lawfully present immigrants—including refugees.5
In addition to paying for more tax breaks for the ultra-rich, this budget supercharges Trump’s mass deportation scheme―sending hundreds of billions of dollars more to ICE and the Pentagon to increase detention centers and raids on immigrant communities.
Many of these raids have been in violation of people’s due process rights―shipping people abroad without allowing them their day in court. Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still trapped in a prison in El Salvador, even as U.S. courts demand his return.6
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We will not accept a future that leaves our most vulnerable residents behind.
Thank you,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Republican Senators Sound Alarm on Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Bill
2 Not done yet: US Senate Republicans plan changes to House's Trump tax-cuts bill
3 Senate GOP leader looks to avoid Trump ‘big, beautiful’ revolt on Medicaid cuts
4 ‘We can’t afford it’: Senate GOP balks at House megabill as messy fight awaits
5 The House Reconciliation Bill Threatens Working Families and Our Democracy
6 Timeline: Wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador
