The Senate is getting closer to voting on their version of the House-passed budget reconciliation bill. This bill will devastate healthcare, food access, and other basic-needs programs in order to fund tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and sweeping deportations of longtime community members.
As the Senate continues to debate their version of the bill, it is clear they are going down the same destructive path as the House. In some cases, the Senate bill goes even further to take away health care and food from Nebraskans.
The Senate could vote in a matter of days on these historically devastating cuts – the most extensive that Congress has ever considered – packaged together with extreme spending for immigration agents and operations to disrupt communities on an increasingly massive scale.
Call or email Senator Ricketts and Senator Fischer NOW and tell them Nebraska values a healthy and supported community – not helping the rich get richer. Say NO to the proposed policies that could:
Dismantle SNAP in Nebraska by:
- Shifting huge, unmanageable costs to states to cover SNAP food support, risking loss of benefits or eligibility for the 150,000 Nebraskans utilizing the program.
- Implementing additional SNAP work requirements on older Nebraskans up to age 64, and parents of young children, who are already struggling to keep food on the table.
- The Senate version also adds new work requirements for youth aging out of foster care, veterans and those experiencing homelessness.
Remove Health Care from Nebraskans by:
- Slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act resulting in nearly 16 million people losing health insurance coverage and costs going up for the rest – one way they plan to do this is by imposing unnecessary work requirements that put up to 40,000 Nebraskans at risk of losing their health care.
- The Senate version would subject even more people to these red tape barriers.
- Taking Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage away from refugees, asylees, certain victims of domestic violence and trafficking, Haitian entrants, and individuals granted humanitarian protection.
Increase Harmful Immigration Enforcement by:
- Establishing historically unprecedented spending for sweeping, unproductive, and harmful enforcement of long-outdated immigration laws – separating local neighbors and families, expanding family detention and jailing on an unimaginable scale, and destabilizing whole communities.
Weaken the Child Tax Credit by:
- Taking the Child Tax Credit away from US citizen children whose parents pay taxes but are stuck in immigration limbo due to long-outdated laws.
- Increasing the Child Tax Credit for higher income families while leaving out at least 17 million of the lowest income children.
Make a call or send an email TODAY:
Thank you for pushing against these cuts!