Setting Our Sights on the U.S. Senate - Budget Reconciliation Bill Absolute Disaster!
- Nick S.
- Jun 1
- 2 min read
The federal budget reconciliation bill passed by the House and soon to be debated in the U.S. Senate would be death by a 1,000 cuts to social safety programs that help keep millions of U.S. households afloat. Beyond the largest transfer of wealth from the working poor to the 1%, the proposal also guts medical research, climate and extreme weather monitoring and clean energy programs.
There’s so much in this “budget” bill to hate - it’s overwhelming. I plan to focus on a core issue every few days and call our senators to DEMAND these horrific proposals be removed and that they let the 2017 T$ump tax cuts expire.
Care to join me?
I use the 5 Calls app, which provides suggested scripts, key facts and tap-to-call to your district’s representative and our two senators.
Our most vulnerable will be hurt when Medicaid and SNAP benefits are decimated.
Effective anti-hunger program SNAP: cutting this food nutrition and assistance program by 30% could result in more than 2 million U.S. children losing access to these benefits.
68% of the USDA’s budget supports SNAP, meaning reduced demand for farmers across our state and the country
116,000 Iowa households will lose food assistance under the current proposal
Iowa’s economy will take a $15 million hit each month
Medicaid cuts: yes, we all understand that none of us are going to live forever Senator Ernst, certainly there’s no reason for those less fortunate or Iowans with disabilities should suffer and die from lack of care vs. old age so you can pass tax cuts for the richest Americans. Thanks … but no thanks!
Sources:
Iowa News Now
PBS News
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