John,

Just one week into Joe Biden’s presidency, he’s already getting pushback from Senate Republicans unwilling to work with him on a critically needed COVID relief package. CNN is reporting, “even moderate [Republicans] like Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah ― have expressed doubts or opposition to passing another major relief bill on the heels of the $900 billion package.”[1]

Just before taking office, Joe Biden proposed a comprehensive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, which includes $1,400 in direct payments to individuals, $400-a-week supplements to unemployment benefits, and an expanded child tax credit, which, according to Columbia University, would cut child poverty in half within the first year.[2]

Those and other items benefitting working families could be paid for by the $1.1 trillion in obscene wealth gains of America’s 660 billionaires since the pandemic began last March, according to a new Americans for Tax Fairness report.[3]

Write to your members of Congress and demand they pass a COVID relief bill to the size and scale of President Joe Biden’s “American Rescue Plan.”

Additionally, another $250 billion of the plan could be paid for by repealing the Millionaires Giveaway that Republican Senators snuck into the CARES Act (the original COVID relief package), passed last March. That provision provides an average $1.6 million tax cut to each of 43,000 millionaires. Outrageous!

With more than 420,000 deaths already from COVID-19, and millions out of work or working for reduced pay, the American people need an immediate lifeline.

Click here to write to your Representative and Senators and demand they pass a pandemic relief bill that meets the urgency of the moment.

This is a time for action, not political posturing. Thank you for taking action today.

Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund

[1] “Biden is no longer afraid to spend big on economic relief. Here's what's changed since 2009,” CNN, Jan. 25, 2021
[2] “The Potential Poverty Reduction Effect of President-Elect Biden’s Economic Relief Proposal,” Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Jan. 14, 2021
[3] “10 Months Into Crisis, U.S. Billionaires’ Wealth Continues to Climb, Up $1.1 Trillion—Nearly 40%,” Americans for Tax Fairness and Institute for Policy Studies, Jan. 26, 2021