|
John,
Members of the slim new House majority claim they’re not holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to extract cuts from Social Security and Medicare. While that is highly questionable, given their direct proposals to cut, privatize, and even “sunset” our earned benefits, they have been much more forthcoming on the programs they *absolutely* intend to cut.1
Last week, the new House Budget Committee majority outlined approximately $1 trillion in cuts they’re targeting in the debt ceiling debate. Here’s what we’re fighting against:2
-
$70 billion in cuts by denying the Child Tax Credit to families with immigrants and by denying SNAP food benefits to poor people who can’t show a work history or other paperwork;
-
$87 billion in cuts from the Environmental Protection Agency, including $60 billion in environmental justice programs meant to protect low-income communities and communities of color from corporate pollution, which the GOP calls “wasteful”;
-
$100 billion in cuts to already-enacted pandemic aid, which state and local governments are still counting on;
-
$400 billion in cuts by ending President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.
They also want to cut millions of dollars in legal assistance for migrants and from so-called “woke” programs, which combat racial and economic injustice.
This is an outrageous laundry list of cuts that will take food and resources away from low- and no-income families, allow greedy corporations to continue to pollute communities of color, and hurt millions of people trapped by education debt.
Members of the new House majority are making their demands clear. And now we know exactly what we’re fighting against.
Pitch in today to fight back against plans to hold our debt ceiling hostage in order to extract $1 trillion in cuts from critical programs for working and low-income families.
DONATE
Many other critical programs could soon be on the chopping block. Health care, housing, education, roads, child care, substance use treatment and a host of other services. But such cuts are not inevitable.
As the House leadership further develops and releases their harmful proposals, it is incumbent upon us to fight back. We need to tell Congress -- invest in America. Don’t cut the things that allow us to survive and thrive.
Donate $5 today to fight back against attacks on critical programs for working and low-income people and families.
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately:
Time and again, we have shown how activism can defeat attempts to take away programs vital to our survival. We will not allow a slim majority in the House to take us backwards.
Thank you,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3850036-republicans-social-security-medicare-debt-ceiling/
2 https://budget.house.gov/press-release/the-debt-limit-and-fiscal-restraint/
|
