Reject Bill Attacking Tribal Sovereignty and Self-Determination

The so-called "One Beautiful Bill" represents a direct attack on tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and the federal government's treaty obligations to Native Nations. Its sweeping cuts target foundational programs that tribal communities rely on for core governmental services, housing, healthcare, economic development, education, language preservation, and environmental protection. This bill threatens to unravel decades of hard-fought progress by Native advocates in establishing a modern framework for tribal self-governance and equitable federal support. Programs facing decimation or elimination include the Tribal Priority Allocations for law enforcement and social services, the Housing Improvement Program, Indian Health Service initiatives like Purchased/Referred Care and the Community Health Aide Program, the Indian Housing Block Grant, Indian Community Development Block Grant, Native language and cultural preservation efforts, and tribal shares of transportation, environmental, and justice funding. Rationalizing these vital programs as "wasteful" or "duplicative" betrays a profound ignorance of their unique role in upholding the federal trust responsibility. Passing this bill would push Indian Country back towards an era of dependency and neglect by gutting the very instruments through which tribes exercise their sovereignty. It must be rejected as the assault on tribal rights and human needs that it is. Indigenous leaders and allies cannot allow this betrayal to be carried out through the disingenuous banner of "fiscal responsibility." The federal trust obligation is not an expendable line item.