This is the most anti-environment, anti-job, and anti-American bill in history.
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It includes $1.2 trillion in cuts, primarily to Medicaid and food assistance -- a change that could leave 3 million without food stamps and nearly 12 million more Americans uninsured by 2034, which will decimate our rural healthcare system. It also cuts school lunches, which are sometimes the only healthy meal that low-income children receive.
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It guts clean energy tax credits that were part of Biden's 2022 landmark climate law along with other clean energy investments. This will eliminate thousands of green jobs and raise household energy bills -- increasing the average family's power bill by $110 next year and as much as $400 per year by 2035. In tandem, it mandates more onshore and offshore drilling, while also defunding, delaying, and weakening the Methane Emissions Reduction Program and the Waste Emissions Charge.
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It attacks environmental and disaster protection by dismantling NOAA's coastal resilience funding that helps protect people from climate-fueled storms. It expands drilling on public lands and in the Arctic and sells off our old-growth forests for timber.
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It includes massive giveaways to corporate polluters and $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the very wealthiest Americans at the expense of working-class people.
We won't mince words -- this bill is cruel. Policy is a reflection of values, and we are horrified by the values represented in this bill and by every legislator who voted for it.
Republicans cheered about taking away healthcare. They cheered about gutting clean energy programs that save our families money and protect our health. They cheered about giving huge tax breaks to a handful of billionaires.
We won't forget.
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There are some silver linings.
Thanks to grassroots advocacy, We successfully fought to remove provisions that would have forced the sale of public lands, implemented a tax on wind and solar energy, and ended emissions standards for vehicles.
These are significant wins, and we should celebrate them. Even with these improvements, this is a terrible bill that fails the American people in every measure. And this is not what the vast majority of Americans support. These policies are widely unpopular across parties.
Trump and his allies in Congress were able to get to 50 votes in the Senate because of late night sweetheart deals. This is not how democracy is meant to function.
We must continue to advocate, even when we lose. Continuing to fight for our future is the only way we can build the movement we need to push back against these policies on both a national and local level, and hold the elected officials who support them accountable.
Share now to help make sure everyone, regardless of their politics or perspective, understands what this anti-American bill means for them.
We're in this struggle together for the long run. We won't give up. Thank you for fighting with us!
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