John,
The Senate is trying to vote on the Big Brutal Bill this weekend. Thousands of you have sent letters1 and made phone calls to offices this week, urging them to vote against this attack on our communities.
More than ever, it’s time to spread the word that the cuts Congress wants to make are harmful and unacceptable. Congress has to hear that this bill is a failure, and that they should stop their headlong rush to pass their Big Brutal Bill by the 4th of July.
The original bill cuts Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act by more than $1 trillion and SNAP by hundreds of billions more. It raises costs for families by repealing clean energy tax credits and increasing costs on everything from health care to groceries to household energy costs.2 It ties people up in red tape so that millions will lose health care, nutrition aid, and tax credits they’ve earned.
Passing the “Big Brutal Budget” means 16 million people will lose health insurance, hundreds of rural hospitals will close, and 51,000 people will die preventable deaths each year.3,4 It will mean tens of millions of families will either lose SNAP benefits altogether5 or see their nutrition assistance cut as states are left to foot the bill.6
Why are they working so hard to deny people the help they need? It’s all to give tax cuts to the wealthy and turbocharge attacks on immigrant communities while adding trillions of dollars to our nation’s debt. We cannot continue to rob the poor to give to the rich.
We need to get the word out about this bill far and wide. When voters hear about what’s in this bill, they oppose it by a 53% to 27% margin.7
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As the Senate rushes to pass their Big Brutal Bill this weekend, we have new updates from the Senate Parliamentarian.8 Some of the cuts to Medicaid and efforts to deny people the Earned Income Tax Credit and give tax breaks for private school vouchers have been ruled against for budget reconciliation, meaning the Senate would not be able to pass this bill with a simple majority vote; they’d need 60 votes. Right now, this is excellent news, because these are very harmful provisions and they don’t have 60 votes to pass them. But it is possible that Senate Republicans can tinker with the provisions to satisfy the Parliamentarian, or replace them with other harmful cuts that would still cause millions to lose health coverage or a vital tax credit for low-income working families.
So it’s too soon to celebrate.
This bill was bad enough when it was in the House. The Senate has been trying to make it worse with even deeper cuts to basic needs programs.9 We have to tell them to stop.
Help us spread the word about this monstrosity of a bill by sharing on X, Bluesky, Facebook, or Instagram.
Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action
1 Defend SNAP and Medicaid
2 7 Ways Republicans’ Sweeping Tax Bill Will Raise Household Costs
3 Senate Finance Committee Proposal Would Leave Millions Uninsured
4 Research Memo: Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
5 Millions at Risk of Losing Food Assistance Under Senate Proposal to Expand SNAP’s Work Requirement to Older Adults & Caregivers of Children as Young as 10
6 Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan
7 How Americans view the GOP’s budget and tax bill
8 Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member's Newsroom
9 8 Ways the Senate Budget Bill Is More Extreme Than the House-Passed Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill
