Families NEED help, NOT a bill giving billionaires more money!

I am writing to urge you to vote no on any budget reconciliation bill that hands out new tax breaks to billionaires at the cost of cutting basic needs services that help families: health care, food, and education. Congress has the power to transform the tax code to ensure that it works for women and families, not just billionaires and giant corporations. Instead, the budget package passed by the House of Representatives: - rips health coverage and nutrition assistance away from millions of people, - imposes work reporting requirements that will lead to fewer people working and more people getting kicked off their health care or losing nutrition benefits, - severely restricts coverage for providing essential reproductive health care to 2 million patients a year, - penalizes states that use their own state dollars to expand Medicaid coverage to some immigrants, - limits the expansion of the Child Tax Credit so that it doesn’t reach the families that need it most and excludes even more families, particularly citizen children of parents without Social Security Numbers, from the credit entirely, and - strips funding from Pell Grants that 7 million students from families with low incomes use to help pay for higher education. All while spending trillions of dollars on new tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations. As families across the country struggle to afford the basics, cuts to critical programs like SNAP and Medicaid would take away access to life-saving care and make people pay more for everything from groceries to health care to elder care. These cuts are cruel and unnecessary. Ignoring families’ basic needs today will rob our children of their futures. Families struggling to get by shouldn’t have to take hit after hit to their wallets and livelihoods while billionaires get even more tax breaks. Enough is enough. Vote no on any budget bill that takes away basic needs supports from women, children, people with disabilities, seniors with low incomes, and other people who need support in our district.