Take Action: Senate Version Reconciliation Bill Passes
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
Senate Version Reconciliation Bill Passes
This is the FINAL chance to stop this bill! Call your representatives TODAY and urge them to vote “no” to a bill that would inhumanely tear away food assistance and healthcare from low income families across the nation.
Today, and in the next few days leading up to July 4th – a day to celebrate America – stand up for what truly makes this country incredible: its people. Use your voice to advocate for your neighbors, colleagues, and loved ones that would be devastated by the effects of this bill.
The Senate just voted to pass a bill with the deepest cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history. If passed into law, this would take away benefits from MILLIONS of people.
See below for an action from Pennsylvania Policy Center, and sign up for their call this Thursday to learn more about the Big, Ugly Budget Reconciliation Bill.
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Today the Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill that, if it is also passed by the House, will go down as one of the most reviled pieces of legislation in American history.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
No other legislation in our history has ever redistributed as much income from those at the bottom and middle of the income distribution to those at the top.
No other in our history has stripped away health care and food assistance from tens of millions of people in our country and hundreds of thousands in our state.
It’s important to know that this is not a done deal. At the moment, the House does not have the votes to pass the Senate version of the legislation. And we need to keep it that way.
The unfairness of this legislation is almost palpable. Right now, almost everyone in America receives government subsidies for the essential good of health care. Some do so through the tax deduction for employer-paid health care. Some through subsidies on the health care exchanges. Some through Medicare. And some through Medicaid.
This legislation shamefully takes government-supported health care away from 17 million Americans and more than 500,000 Pennsylvanians.
And it does this to give tax giveaways that go overwhelmingly to the richest Americans, while also adding over $4 trillion to the national debt.
Now members of the House of Representatives need to decide whether to go along with this travesty.
At each step of the process, Pennsylvania representatives Rob Bresnahan and Brian Fitzpatrick have said that the legislation “does not cut” Medicaid and that they were “voting to move the process along” with the hope that the final product would be better.
If the Senate bill is the final product, Bresnahan and Fitzpatrick cannot hide behind those claims again. This legislation is far worse than the House version. And both versions of the reconciliation bill deeply cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits for tens of thousands of their constituents.
This week, they both have to decide whether they stand with the billionaires of this country or their own constituents. The decisions that our congressional representatives make now will determine whether people will live or die for lack of health care.
We hope they make the right decision and say no to this historically shameful legislation.
Join us in doing EVERYTHING we can to stop this legislation from passing.
You can start with our easy letter writing action page to contact your U.S. representative. If you live near Scranton, you can join our friends from Action Together NEPA at 2pm TODAY outside of Congressman Bresnahan’s office.
No matter where you live, you can join us virtually on Thursday at 1pm for our Federal Policy Action call with U.S. Senator Chris Coons.
And we will keep all of you posted on upcoming events in other areas and at different times of day!
In solidarity,
Marc Stier and the entire staff at the Pennsylvania Policy Center
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