1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

Please vote NO on this reconciliation bill! You are hurting the very Iowans who voted for you (including your republican base). The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill takes wealth from the American people to give it to the very wealthy and corporations. “This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine. When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.” “There are two ways of viewing the government's duty in matters affecting economic and social life,” FDR said in his speech accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president. “The first sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the small business man.” The other “is based upon the simple moral principle: the welfare and the soundness of a Nation depend first upon what the great mass of the people wish and need; and second, whether or not they are getting it.” Do you not care about the very Iowans that voted for you? We have mothers and fathers, grandparents, and disabled children who are in need of health insurance and assistance to continue living a quality of life. What is your end game? What do you hope to gain from voting for this disadvantaged bill? To get reelected? I guarantee you that the good people in Iowa will NOT reelect you if you vote for this. Your republication voters are so upset and disappointed in you.