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Dear fellow MoveOn member,

If you've had trouble following the latest developments in Congress,
you're not alone. So I wanted to take a moment to update you and share our
next steps for passing President Biden's transformative Build Back Better
plan.

As you probably know, the Build Back Better plan is moving forward in two
separate bills. The first bill, focused on infrastructure, includes a mix
of good things and not-so-good things and passed the Senate in September
with the support of Mitch McConnell and 19 other Republicans.^1

The second bill includes a sweeping set of reforms that help everyday
Americans and that corporate-backed Republicans hate, including lower drug
prices, expanded pre-K, free community college, paid family leave, and
raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

Last week, there was a big push to pass only the Republican-backed
infrastructure bill in the House while leaving the crucial second bill by
the wayside. But House progressives refused to go along, and Speaker Nancy
Pelosi did not allow a vote on the bill, a key step toward victory.

Now, we're facing a new threat. Joe Manchin is demanding that the bill be
cut by more than half, which would almost surely gut some of the most
critical parts of the bill.

To succeed in this new phase of the campaign, we must accomplish one key
strategic objective: educate voters on what's actually in the bill.

Now, that should be the job of the mainstream media, but instead they've
been focused on building false, shock-value narratives about the cost of
the bill—$3.5 trillion—without providing any context, making it easy for
Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and the Republicans to attack it. But failing
to invest in education, clean energy, and health care ... in order to
preserve tax breaks for Jeff Bezos? That's wildly unpopular—and to win, we
need to make sure everyone knows that's really what's at stake.



That's why my friends at MoveOn are launching a big new public education
push including ads on radio and the internet, viral videos on social
media, and big, visible public protests to make sure people know what's in
this bill, why it must be passed, and to promote the victory throughout
the 2022 midterm election cycle. I'm asking you to become a monthly donor
to help MoveOn fund this effort through 2022. Will you chip
in $5 a month?

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Breaking through the media noise isn't easy, so this campaign needs to be
well resourced. But we can win if we can get our message out, because the
investments included in this bill are hugely popular.

Here's a list of what's most in danger of being cut if Joe Manchin and
Kyrsten Sinema get their way:

* Expanded pre-K, which would give all kids, no matter their race or
financial status, the best start to their education.
* Medicaid coverage of dental, vision, and hearing—filling a critical
gap that disproportionately impacts low-income communities.
* Free community college—which would give millions of students in
underserved communities the chance to access higher education and find
good-paying jobs for their futures.
* Lowered drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices—a
change that could finally stop greedy drug companies from price
gouging consumers on lifesaving medications like insulin.
* Paid family leave for new parents and those caring for sick
relatives—a program which would finally end the United States'
shameful position as one of only three nations not to provide such a
service.
* Child tax credits—a transformative policy that would immediately lift
millions of children in the United States out of poverty.
* Increased clean energy to solve the climate crisis—a critical step
toward tackling the existential crisis of our lifetime.

All of these programs poll through the roof with voters, even in red
states like West Virginia. So why are they trying to kill them? In order
to protect tax breaks for ultra-wealthy people like Jeff Bezos and Mark
Zuckerberg.



We can win this fight. We must win this fight if we want to win in 2022.
But we can't wait for the mainstream media to educate the public about
what's at stake. It's up to us. Will you chip in $5 a
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Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

Source:

1. "Here Are The Republicans Who Voted For The Infrastructure Bill In The
Senate," NPR, August 10, 2021
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