Urge Our Senators & Your Representative to Vote NO on Trump’s Unfair, Cruel 2021 Federal Budget

By MUUSJN on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020

Call Our Senators & Your U.S. Representative

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Click HERE for List of Michigan Members of Congress

Urge Them to Say NO To President Trump’s Unfair, Cruel Federal Budget!

President Trump’s FY 2021 budget, introduced this month, is unfair and it’s cruel. It funnels more tax cuts to the wealthy, expands Pentagon spending over the next 10 years, and makes deep cuts in programs that benefit poor and middle income families. This budget provides a blueprint for Trump Administration priorities:

  1. Trump’s first round of tax cuts are due to expire in 2025. His second round of tax cuts, described in his 2021 budget, would begin in 2026 and would boost the cost of his tax giveaways from $1.9 trillion over 10 years to $3.1 trillion over 13 years (2018 – 2030), The richest 1% will get tax breaks averaging $24,000 per year compared to an average of $460 a year for the lower 60% of Americans. (Source: “Trump’s Groundhog Day Budget”, Americans for Tax Fairness, 2/11/20. Click HERE for more information.)
  2. This budget preserves the pentagon’s FY 2020 $741 billion spending at current levels. However, it uses some of its Overseas Military Operations “slush fund” along with cuts to 50 pentagon medical facilities, to cover other expenses such as the proposed “Space Force”, maintaining “readiness accounts” and a 3% military pay hike. After 2021, pentagon spending will rise 2% a year. (Source: “Highlights of President Trump’s 2021 Budget Plan”, Washington Post, 2/10/20. Click HERE for article.)
  3. The President’s cruel cuts to domestic programs would increase income disparities, particularly for people of color. Here are highlights to proposed domestic spending cuts:
  • $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which will lead to millions of people losing their health care. Medicare cuts would chiefly be to reimbursement for hospitals and other health care providers, rather than Medicare recipients, according to the Washington Post article;
  • $180 billion in cuts to food and nutrition assistance (“Food Stamps”) affecting millions of needy people and $1.7 billion in cuts to school meals for low income children;
  • $170 billion cut to student loan programs, which put college out of reach for many Americans;
  • $75 billion in cuts to two disability programs mostly serving low-income populations struggling to survive: Social Security Disability Insurance and and Supplemental Security Income (SSI);
  • Cuts to public housing of 43% and eliminating housing vouchers for 160,000 low-income families;
  • Slashing funding for federal departments and agencies: Environmental Protection Agency (27%); Housing and Urban Development (15%); Transportation, including infrastructure (13%); Labor (11%); Health and Human Services (9%); and Education (8%).

(Sources: Americans for Tax Fairness & the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (Click HERE for “Trump Budget Would Increase Hardship and Inequality”, CBPP, 2/10/20)

Call your U.S. Representative and your Senators and tell them:

  1. The Trump administration’s proposed 2021 budget is unfair and cruel;
  2. It extends massive tax cuts for the wealthy;
  3. It expands Pentagon spending over the next 10 years; and
  4. Cuts essential benefits for millions of Americans;
  5. Vote NO on this budget!

Thank you for taking action. The Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network has 3,000 activists throughout Michigan. Please take a stand for social and economic justice!

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