John,
I wanted to make sure you saw Deborah’s email from yesterday.
The Big Brutal Bill is a disaster. The cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act coverage would result in 17 million people losing health insurance.1 On top of that, millions more will lose their SNAP nutrition benefits.2
The public overwhelmingly supports Medicaid and SNAP/food and nutrition assistance—three-quarters or even more oppose cuts in these basic needs programs.3 Despite this, Senate Republican leadership rushed through this package with last-minute changes designed to peel off the votes they needed, and House leaders are pushing hard to pass it Wednesday or Thursday, despite many Representatives asking for enough time to read the bill and understand all the changes that made the Senate package even worse than the last House proposal.
Why do they want to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP, which will result in 51,000 unnecessary deaths each year?4 Because it pays towards the trillions of dollars in tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit people with the highest incomes, and more funding to detain and remove immigrants, without due process, even when they are here legally.
A new analysis of a version of the Senate bill shows that the richest one-tenth of one percent (with incomes of $3.3 million and up) would average $103,500 in tax breaks per year over the next decade. The lowest 20 percent, with income less than $13,350, would lose $695 a year, on average, taking into account what they may receive in tax breaks and what they lose in benefits such as Medicaid or SNAP.5
And this bill will shift some of the burden of paying for Medicaid and SNAP to states and away from the federal government. That will either force cuts in other programs, like education, or result in deeper cuts to vital health and nutrition services in your state.
The cruelty of this bill knows no bounds. Our families, friends, and neighbors deserve more than to suffer so the rich can become richer.
Send a message to the House of Representatives today, urging them to reject this brutal bill.
Thank you for all you do,
Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, CHN Action
1 Stan Dorn, Unidos on X: Based on new CBO findings the number of uninsured resulting from the Senate bill is nearly 17 million -- more than the 16 million whom CBO found would lose coverage under the House bill
2 Breaking News CBO confirms: The proposed Republican Senate bill would end SNAP for 2.9 million Americans, including 1.1M who live where jobs are scarce, 900K seniors, 600K parents, and 270K veterans, homeless, & former foster youth.
3 Three-quarters of Americans oppose Medicaid cuts, poll shows
4 Research Memo: Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
5 Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House and Senate Reconciliation Bills
-- DEBORAH'S EMAIL --
John,
The Senate just passed a shameless and unprecedented shift of the nation’s wealth from the poor to the rich. The Senate bill includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and will leave nearly 17 million without health coverage—even more than the House. Like the House, it piles on gift after gift to the rich and well-connected, from Space-X to the oil and gas industries to multi-millionaire estates. This afternoon, the House Rules Committee is meeting to set up a House vote tomorrow, with a goal of sending it to Donald Trump’s desk by July 4th.
Time is running out, but there’s still time to kill this bill.
Send a message to your Representative, urging them to reject this bill outright.
SEND A MESSAGE
In May, the House version passed by a single vote. And the Senate version is much worse. It includes harsher cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, removes exemptions from SNAP’s harsh time limits for 270,000 veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth,1 while increasing the national debt by $4.5 trillion.2
Under the Senate version, a worker earning $30,000 would receive a tax cut of just $108, while a multi-millionaire in the top 0.1% would receive a $255,155 tax cut.3
And this doesn’t include how the suffering and costs associated with cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and Trump’s tariffs would affect low-to-middle-income people.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) issued a statement:4
“This bill will give the ultra-wealthy annual tax breaks of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but low-income families will be lucky to get enough to cover groceries for a week. The reality is, this Republican plan will drive the vulnerable into misery and drag down the middle class for the benefit of big corporations and the rich. It’s getting worse with every rewrite.”
This bill would cut SNAP and Medicaid by well over $1 trillion, lead to 17 million people getting kicked off their health care and millions more losing nutrition benefits, and result in the closure of hundreds of rural hospitals. Estimates based on the House bill found that 51,000 people will die preventable deaths each year; the Senate’s deeper cuts would be expected to push those shameful numbers even higher.5
How many deaths are acceptable in order to provide more tax breaks to the wealthy?
Send a direct message to the House today, urging them to reject the Big Brutal Bill.
Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action
[1] Senate Ag, Nutrition, & Forestry Committee Dems
[2] Senate Would Borrow Far More than House
[3]'Unprecedented Handout': Senate GOP Tax Bill Even More Regressive Than House Version
[4]The Senate Republican Tax Plan: Officially Worse than the House Republican Tax Plan
[5]Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
