The Issue 

The U.S. Senate is due to vote on the House-passed tax and spending bill Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” but in truth it’s ugly and dangerous.  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the legislation will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion, add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit and lead to at least 13.7 million people losing their health insurance by 2034. 

NOW needs your active participation—NOW!  Because it will only take four senators to make this vote the one when they stand up to Trump.   They’ll do it if you remind them how horrible, dangerous, and destructive this bill is! 

It will eliminate over 800,000 good-paying jobs and force Americans to pay up to $170 billion more on electric bills, ending the investments past presidents of both parties have made in clean energy.  The U.S. will be forced to depend more on China as about $80 billion in solar and manufacturing jobs will go overseas. 

The tax changes will, on average, take $700 a year away from households making less than $51,000 and $1,000 from those making less than $17,000. Meanwhile, the top 0.1% of households (making $4.3 million or more) will gain $389,000.  

At least $800 billion will be cut from healthcare programs, forcing 10 million people to lose Medicaid coverage as new barriers to coverage are put in place, and allows the tax credits that help low-and meddle-income families and small business owners afford health coverage to expire. 

The bill includes the most devastating attacks on the Affordable Care Act since Trump’s allies tried to largely repeal President Barack Obama’s signature accomplishment in 2017.  But instead of calling to “end Obamacare,” now they’re pointing to examples of “waste, fraud and abuse” in Medicaid and other government health programs that don’t hold up to scrutiny. 

And Planned Parenthood will be defunded under this bill, as it blocks reimbursement for any clinic that provides abortion. 

What’s more, the bill includes massive increases in funding for ICE raids, detention, deportations and border militarization, and eliminates the longstanding requirement that protects immigrant children in U.S. custody by permitting indefinite family detention. The bill also includes an approximately $80 billion increase in funding for border wall construction and further militarization of border communities. 

TAKE ACTION  

WHAT CAN I DO? Please immediately call your senators and urge them to vote against the bill.  President Trump wants a vote this week—he needs to hear from us!  And so does the Senate. 

WHAT CAN I DO? Please immediately call your senators and urge them to vote against the bill.  President Trump wants a vote this week—he needs to hear from us!  And so does the Senate. 

HOW DO I DO IT?  Every Senator can be reached at the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202–224–3121 and a directory of their contact information can also be found here.  

WHAT DO I SAY? My name is (insert name) and as your constituent from (City/Town) I urge you to vote NO on the budget reconciliation bill.  Approving this bill puts real people at serious risk, and Sen.. (LAST NAME) needs to stand with (his/her) constituents and vote this big, ugly bill down. 

THANKS FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS.