Hi Friend,
In a blow to working people across the country, the Senate just passed their monstrous budget bill, taking a wrecking ball to programs that make energy affordable for households, reduce toxic pollution, combat the climate crisis, provide life-changing healthcare, and nourish families with food assistance.
If this bill passes, Republicans would be responsible for killing over 800,000 jobs, as well as raising the average American’s electricity bills by 10 percent. In a time of intense heat waves and grid demand, they’d also be reducing new energy capacity installed on the grid by at least 50 percent.
All this—simply to line the pockets of billionaires, fossil fuel executives, and their top corporate backers with massive tax cuts.
But there’s still hope, friend. Since the bill still needs to go through the House one more time for FINAL passage, that means we still have one more shot at getting our representatives to do the right thing. And with razor thin margins, every single call can mean the difference in this fight.
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