The Senate will be voting on amendments to the disastrous MAGA budget bill all
through the night.

See our earlier note — copied below in case you missed it — for more about just
how bad this legislation is.

And take action urging the Senate not to pass it.
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Onward!

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The United States Senate is voting on the massive budget legislation that Donald
Trump and his MAGA sycophants in Congress have ridiculously dubbed the “Big
Beautiful Bill.”

More like the Gargantuan Grotesque Giveaway.

Here are just a few ways MAGA Republicans want to hurt everyday Americans with
this legislative travesty — just so they can lock in even more tax breaks for
their billionaire and Big Business puppet masters:

* At least 16 million Americans would lose health coverage.

* Medicaid would be slashed by over $1 trillion. Even though these craven
politicians will look right into a television camera and say they aren’t
“touching” Medicaid.

* The federal government’s essential Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(what used to be known as “food stamps”) would lose over $200 billion. That’s
on top of massive cuts in food assistance since the Trump regime returned to
power — at a time when food insecurity has risen in all 50 states since 2021.

* The Pentagon would get an additional $150 billion. Here’s where we note that
the Pentagon has never passed an audit and is the greatest source of waste,
fraud, and abuse in the entire federal government by far.

* Big Oil would get $18 billion in new handouts while wind and solar programs would be gutted by additional taxes.
Humanity is rushing toward a climate cliff, and MAGA is jamming its foot on
the gas pedal.

* The Trump regime would get $150 billion to supercharge its campaign of
militant xenophobia, including enough for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) and similar agencies to hire thousands of additional personnel.

* A last-minute provision Republicans are trying to sneak in would prevent
states from enacting commonsense regulations on artificial intelligence —
even to block the spread of political or intimate deepfakes.

This farce of a bill would likely constitute the single biggest upward transfer
of wealth in our nation’s entire history.

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Many senators seem to be asking everyday Americans to accept losing health
coverage, going hungry, or otherwise suffering just so billionaires and Big
Business can pay even less of their fair share. How does that possibly make
sense? Do not pass the legislative travesty known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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