Tell Congress: Block and resist the Trump budget (an attack on the poor, children and the enviroment)

Petition to Congress "Block and resist the Trump budget. It is an immoral attack on the poor and essential programs like the EPA, State Department, women’s health, Medicaid and Head Start combined with a tax handout for the ultra-wealthy and subsidies for war-profiteering defense contractors." Add your name:

Donald Trump is waging war on immigrants. He is waging war on women. And his latest budget is a grotesque reminder that he is also waging all-out war on people living in poverty. Budgets are moral documents. They lay out an administration’s priorities and describe its vision for the country. It no surprise that Trump’s vision is a nightmare. Trump’s budget is an unconscionable attack on the poor with handouts for the super-rich and defense contractors.1 It supercharges cuts to programs that help people navigate and overcome poverty – and doubles down on Republicans’ racist, classist attempts to blame people living in poverty for their situation and reward the people and systems that have institutionalized poverty for millions of Americans. We need to make sure it is dead on arrival in Congress. Tell Congress: Block and resist the Trump budget. Click here to sign the petition. Medicaid, the Environmental Protection Agency, Head Start, education, housing assistance, women’s health – all of these programs and agencies face devastating cuts.The Trump budget includes more than 40 percent cuts to programs that make America stronger, healthier, better-educated and more prosperous, while funneling close to $1 trillion to war-profiteering defense contractors.2 The Trump budget would: Attack the poor. It would cut SNAP benefits – already only $1.40 per person per meal – by more than a quarter, steal health care from millions by cutting Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies, rob funding from Head Start and evict millions by slashing housing assistance at a time of out-of-control rents.3 Trump has even suggested dictating what low-income families should eat by replacing already-meager food stamps with a box of processed or canned food.4 Weaken America. Environmental Protection Agency safeguards, State Department diplomacy, FBI law enforcement, Labor Department protections, National Science Foundation research, Planned Parenthood health care and National Institutes of Health cures would all face huge funding cuts. Almost every domestic program would lose funding – even infrastructure spending, despite the Trump administration’s false promises.5 Benefit Wall Street and defense contractors. Only the ultra-wealthy and war-profiteering corporations who make billions entirely off of our tax dollars would benefit from this outrageous proposal. The budget includes more than $777 billion in new defense spending and $550 billion in new tax handouts.6 We cannot allow this nightmarish vision for America to become the new normal. Without a massive public outcry, the Trump budget might lower expectations for all future budgets even if none of it becomes law. We can’t let that happen. Tell Congress: Block and resist the Trump budget. Click here to sign the petition. The Trump budget makes it clear that only the ultra-wealthy and war-profiteering defense contractors matter in his eyes – women, children, people of color, immigrants, the environment and every person who struggles to make ends meet are on their own. It is a nightmarish and immoral vision for an America that is sicker, poorer, more endangered and less innovative. The Trump budget is an even more devastating version of the Ryan budgets that CREDO members have fought for years.7 We cannot allow the Trump-Ryan vision for the future of America to become the new normal standard in Washington – we need to speak out now. Tell Congress: Block and resist the Trump budget. Click here to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_budget_2018?t=8&akid=27500%2E3130208%2EaAEohx - Josh Nelson, CREDO Action Add your name: References: Dylan Matthews, “Trump’s 2019 budget: what he cuts, how much he cuts, and why it matters,” Vox, Feb. 12, 2018. Ibid. Erica Hunzinger, “Trump Administration Wants To Decide What Food SNAP Recipients Will Get,” NPR, Feb. 12, 2018. Matthews, “Trump’s 2019 budget: what he cuts, how much he cuts, and why it matters.” Ibid. Ibid. Ibid.

Sign the Petition: Demand a budget that supports working families and older Americans

Donald Trump’s budget would cut more than a trillion dollars from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and trillions more from education, food stamps, infrastructure spending and more. Tell Congress to reject a budget that hurts working families just to pay for tax cuts for the rich and corporations.

Donald Trump has just proposed a new federal budget that steals from working families to pay for his massive $1.5 trillion tax cut that largely benefits the wealthy and big corporations.

As if his tax scam weren’t bad enough, he’s planning to pay for it with a budget that would slash critical services for working families and older Americans, including:

• $1.8 trillion from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more―kicking millions of seniors, children and people with disabilities off their healthcare;
• $203 billion from student loans, making it a lot tougher for students to afford college;
• $215 billion from food stamps, hurting the health of low-income children;
• And, $1.5  trillion from hundreds of other public investments from schools to highways to medical research and environmental protection―gone!

Stand up to Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans as they attempt to devastate our earned benefits and other critical services for working families (all so they can pay for their massive tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations). Sign the petition today!

Participating organizations:

Americans for Tax Fairness

Center for American Progress

Corporate Accountability

Daily Kos

Demand Progress

EPI

Good Jobs Nation

People Demanding Action

People For the American Way

Trump's budget is out, and it's a killer.

Proposed cuts mean hundreds of thousands of more asthma attacks, heart attacks, and premature deaths from slashing basic enforcement and cleanup programs, meaning dirtier air and water, all thanks to giant giveaways to corporate polluters.

Luckily, presidents don't set the final budget, Congress does. When Trump and anti-environment radicals tried to make these cuts earlier this year, your calls and emails shut it down-- protecting funding for the EPA, national parks, and clean air and water.^[1]

Now let's do it again. Tell your member of Congress to protect clean air, clean water, our shared public lands, and the climate.

Proposed major cuts in Trump's "fat cat" budget include^[2]:

• A 31% cut to EPA's budget, specifically to enforcement and climate programs which will mean more pollution. Also cut-- popular regional cleanup programs to the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and even cuts to Superfund.
• An 84% cut to the National Park Service.
• An 88% cut to the US Forest Service.
• An 89% cut to the Bureau of Land Management.
• A 66% to the Fish and Wildlife Service

Our air, our water, our climate, and our public lands belong to all of us. If we don't protect them, more people will get sick, more will die, and we will lose our public lands to greedy millionaires and billionaires who want to drill, frack, and mine in them. 

Tell your member of Congress to protect our air, water, public lands and climate. Budget cuts like these have real impacts on real people in your communities.

Kirin Kennedy
Lands and Wildlife, Sierra Club

References

[1] 14 Ways Trump Lost Bigly on the Budget Deal #3 No Cuts to EPA

[2] EPA remains top target with Trump administration proposing 31 percent budget cut