John,

I voted HELL NO on Trump and Republicans’ Big Budget Betrayal—our country’s largest-ever upward transfer of wealth from poor and working people to billionaires.

I will continue to do everything in my power to put working people first and defend our communities from the GOP’s fascist assault on our rights.

We will not stand by or be silent as working families are sacrificed to make the rich richer. We won’t let billionaires, for-profit detention centers, or weapons corporations profit off of dehumanizing and hurting our neighbors.

We’re calling out Republicans’ budget for what it is: a deadly budget, with the largest cut to Medicaid and health care in our country’s history. This will lead to the unnecessary deaths of over 50,000 people every year. Republicans are also taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids, seniors, and people with disabilities by cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in nutrition assistance.

If Republicans really cared about waste, they’d start with the Pentagon—which hasn’t passed an audit in seven years. Instead they’re sending hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars to the Pentagon and ICE, most of which will go to corporations profiting off our pain.

Unlike most U.S. Congressmembers, I don’t take money from corporate PACs or AIPAC. I’m demanding our government spend taxpayer dollars on what the people need, including universal health care and monthly child assistance payments.

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All Democrats in Congress voted against this budget reconciliation bill, and all but 3 Republicans voted for it.

Cuts to Medicaid will start January 2027—after the 2026 mid-term elections. All SNAP recipients will see a 15% reduction going into effect in October 2027 (and keep in mind: the average SNAP recipient already only gets $6 a day).

These health and nutrition cuts will affect tens of millions of Americans. In my state these cuts will block access to health care for 450,000 Michiganders and cut off 300,000 Michiganders from food assistance.

Because these cuts won’t really start impacting people directly until after the mid-term elections, it’s up to us right now to let voters know what was in this disastrous budget package and how they’ll be affected.

It’s important to note that grassroots efforts and our pushes within Congress did have an impact. We successfully fought back against some harmful parts of this bill that were then excluded from the final version.

But what Trump signed into law is 900 pages of cruelty that will hurt seniors, working families, our immigrant neighbors, and other vulnerable communities. I will not stop telling the American people what is in this disastrous bill. For example:

The top 0.1% (the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos of the world) stand to gain over $300,000 on average in 2027 alone. That’s $847 a day. People who make over a million dollars a year will get about $100,000 per year or $264 per day. If you make $50,000 like a lot of teachers and frontline workers, you’re going to get 68 cents per day—but once people are cut off from necessary care, increasing out-of-pocket health and nutrition costs, even that 68 cents a day will vanish.

Even though the Pentagon hasn’t passed an audit for seven years in a row, Republicans increased the Pentagon budget (what I call the war machine budget) by $150 billion. At least half of this will go to for-profit weapons corporations.

At the same time, Republicans increased ICE funding by $170 billion, while ICE agents violently kidnap and disappear our neighbors. The budget for ICE is now a staggering $38 billion per year, making ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in our history, and larger than almost all the world’s militaries.

As a former immigration lawyer and the daughter of immigrants, I will keep fighting back against ICE’s illegal violations of human rights, including the right to due process. And I’ll keep demanding an end to war and genocide, instead making sure our government invests in what our communities need to survive and thrive.

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Thank you so much. I promise to keep fighting alongside you for the dignity and rights of all people, including the right to health care. I will also keep pushing for a true democracy with politicians who actually represent their constituents, rather than their corporate and billionaire donors.

In solidarity,

Rashida