House Republicans are still fighting amongst themselves over Donald Trump’s
insane “Big Beautiful Bill.”

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 House not to pass it.
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Onward!

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In the end, it took a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance for Donald
Trump’s disastrous “Big Beautiful Bill” to pass in the Senate. (As per the
Constitution, when the Senate is deadlocked, the vice president casts the
deciding vote.)

Before his fateful vote, Vance brushed aside the catastrophic and intentional
effects of the legislation — like taking health coverage away from millions of
Americans and slashing Medicaid by over $1 trillion — as nothing but “minutiae”
and “immaterial.”

The Senate version of the bill is even worse than the version that first came out of the House of Representatives. So now
the legislation goes back to the House, and if it passes there, it will land on
Trump’s desk, where he will sign it into law.

This farce of a bill would likely constitute the single biggest upward transfer
of wealth in our nation’s entire history. And we have one more chance to stop it
before the House votes.

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:

* 17 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.

We need every member of Congress to hear from as many everyday Americans as
possible how wrongheaded this bill is.

To every member of the United States House of Representatives:
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The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” demands that the American people accept
losing health coverage, going hungry, and suffering in countless other ways just
so billionaires and Big Business can get even more tax breaks. That is madness.
Do not pass this legislative travesty.
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