Tell Your Story: Federal Budget & Tax Fight
People Over Profit
Our vulnerable communities are now faced with a new harsh reality: benefits they've earned are now on the chopping block with the short-term government funding bill recently passed by Congress.
We must protect those who protect, support those who support, and sustain those who have sustained this nation. We cannot cut Social Security and veterans' benefits to give billionaires another tax break — we need a budget that supports all Americans.
Tell Your Story
The current funding bill jeopardizes several social safety net programs to give tax cuts to the ultrawealthy. We need your story to gain insight into how funding cuts to these programs affect you and your family.
Instead of putting the people first, they have chosen to side with billionaires. Americans need, and deserve, investments in quality, affordable healthcare for our children, seniors, and veterans. To do anything else is un-American.
- Patrice Willoughby, Chief of Policy and Legislative AffairsThe Effects of Federal Cuts
The plan calls for massive cuts in Medicaid and in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would raise the cost of health care and groceries for people struggling to make ends meet.
The Next Step: Contact Your Representatives
Government funding should not hurt the elderly, veterans, or those benefitting from Social Security. Cutting these essential lifelines to fund yet another billionaire tax break is unacceptable.
Contact your representatives today and demand that they reject any government funding plan that cuts Social Security, Medicare, Veterans benefits, and other social programs to fund corporate tax breaks.
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