John,

In a matter of hours the Senate expects to start debate on the Big Brutal Bill with a goal of passing it tomorrow. But each step of the way, this bill has gotten worse―and significantly worse than the House-passed version.

The Senate budget makes even harsher cuts to SNAP food benefits by reducing support for veterans, people who are homeless, stay-at-home parents (even if a spouse works), and young people aging out of foster care. It does this by adding burdensome work reporting requirements that are shown to harm eligible beneficiaries while showing no measurable increase to employment rates.

The Senate version will cause even more people to lose their health insurance, again forcing paperwork requirements onto previously exempt populations including parents with dependent children while directly attacking the 40 states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Congress is going too far, too fast and as a result is seeking to pass a bill that its own members don’t fully understand. All they really know is that the bill hands massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations―the very people they are looking to please.

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Each day, we hear of another aspect of the bill that the Senate Parliamentarian has ruled out of bounds for budget reconciliation―meaning that without changes, the Senate would need a 60-vote majority to pass their bill, not just a simple majority. But as they address those violations, instead of removing some of the most severe cuts, they simply make the bill worse.

In fact, just look at how the the massive tax breaks for the wealthy in the current version of the Senate bill would increase our nation’s debt by $4.5 trillion:¹

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Together, we’re reminding Congress that the American people, by wide margins, reject this massive upward transfer of wealthy from low-income and working people to the richest 1%.

Thank you,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Senate Reconciliation Bill Could Add Over $4 Trillion to Debt