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Tell Congress:
President Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan is critical to our communities and our future―dramatically reducing childhood poverty, helping families afford health care, child care, care for the aging or with disabilities, education, and housing, and more. Congress must allocate the full $3.5 trillion and make the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share to cover the cost. Every dollar of revenue not raised from the rich and corporations is a dollar not invested in children, families, retirees, and working people.
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John,
We are very close to having Congress enact a historic ten-year $3.5 trillion investment in jobs, health care, child care, education, the environment, housing and more. But, a small group of moderate Democrats in Congress is standing in the way, trying to limit the size and scope of the overall package of investments. (No Republicans are supporting these investments.)
It’s up to us to demand Congress go big and bold, and to remind them they can make these historic investments if they finally demand corporations and the rich pay their share in taxes.
Join CHN and our national partners to demand Congress invest in human needs by passing President Biden's $3.5 trillion Build Back Better investment agenda―paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share.
Getting this historic legislation passed will not be easy.
The Washington Post reported that corporate America has launched a massive lobbying blitz to attempt to kill key parts of this historic $3.5 trillion economic plan, which would give an unprecedented boost to low- and middle-income families.1
But we are not going to let Big Money win.
Can you take 1-minute and send a letter to Congress to demand they act and pass this essential legislation? We have a draft ready for you!
Childhood poverty is just one of the issues that this historic budget would address. Nearly 11 million children live in poverty in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic, which shows few signs of ending any time soon, has only made this dire situation of childhood poverty worse.
The Child Tax Credit, passed as part of the American Rescue Plan, provides historic relief to the most working families ever, and is projected to cut child poverty by 45% nationally this year. But, unless Congress acts, the boosted Child Tax Credit will expire at the end of this year.2
We can't allow that to happen. Send a letter to Congress to demand they fully fund the ten-year $3.5 trillion budget―and make the rich and corporations pay their fair share.
Thank you for all you do to demand accountability from our political leaders and to fight for the needs of working families, the vulnerable, the sick and the poor.
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/31/business-lobbying-democrats-reconciliation/
2 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/democrats-budget-plan-would-extend-child-tax-credit.html
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