1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

As your constituent and a sister in Christ, I beg you to renounce the odd allegiance you seem to have placed in President Trump despite his continual demonstrations of caring only for his own pride. Senator King called the BBB “irresponsible, regressive, and downright cruel,” and “immoral,” and I agree with him. You want to cut fraud and abuse? Focus on the large corporations trying to line their pockets, not your poverty-stricken constituents who simply want to obtain food and medical care. How many members of your church depend on Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, or WIC? If you are unwilling to hold public in-person town halls to look those you represent in the eyes and tell them you’re voting to allow the ultrawealthy to grow richer at the expense of the average person, then you have no business voting in the dead of night to do so. The Bush tax cuts + extensions and the Trump tax cuts have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since then — more than 90% if you exclude the one-time costs for responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession. History and math shows us that tax cuts are not the way to improving people’s lives; investment in the social fabric is the way. I know you are a smart man. You say you want to demonstrate character and do what’s right; surely you know in your heart that your loyalty to President Trump no matter what he proposes is allying yourself with the antithesis of the mercy, justice, and humility that God commands us to live in.