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Tell Congress: No Cuts That Hurt Working Families, Kids and Retirees — Dial 231-400-0602 to be connected with your Senators or click this link.  

The Senate’s budget reconciliation bill will result in millions of Americans losing health coverage, food assistance, jobs in energy sector, affordable student loans and student borrower protections, and protection from AI technologies that harm safety and rights, all so Republicans can extend tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the very wealthy and corporations over everyday Americans. Lawmakers who say this budget reconciliation bill is about fiscal responsibility are willfully ignoring that this bill will grow the budget deficit by a $4.5 trillion.

Congress is moving fast to pass a partisan budget reconciliation bill that only needs Republican support. This is the last chance to slow down or strip out the harmful provisions in this bill. Here are some of the ways how this bill will harm Americans in every state and every Congressional District:  

• Would rip health care away from some 16 million people through Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts, and would eliminate 1.2 million care jobs — putting 380 rural hospitals at risk of closing. Medicaid is even more critical for rural and small-town America, where many working people and their dependents do not have employer-sponsored healthcare.

• Cutting Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will force states, cities, towns, and schools to slash critical public services and jobs that make sure our communities are safe, prosperous, and affordable.

• Cutting $186 billion in SNAP funding would deprive 2.9 million Americans of food assistance, and slash at least 140,000 jobs in food processing facilities, school cafeterias, grocery stores, and farms.

• By 2029, state economies are forecast to shrink by $154 billion due to the cuts in this bill.

• Canceling advanced clean energy tax credits and funding will hundreds of thousands of good energy jobs and raise energy costs at a moment when working-class households are already struggling.

• The bill gives Big Tech a 10-year free pass to violate workers’ rights and jeopardize their safety by banning the enforcement of all existing or to-be-passed state and local AI laws for the next decade.

• For future borrowers, the bill will replace the SAVE student loan plan with a repayment scheme that raises costs for every borrower, making it harder for working-class students to attend college or trade school and stay there.

• NOTE on provisions attacking federal civil service, federal unions, and federal employee benefits: The Senate bill no longer contains text that would increase federal worker’s retirement contribution rates, make new hires “at will” employees, or make unions pay for official time. However, IFPTE is monitoring amendments to the budget reconciliation that would add these provisions back to the bill.

• See the Center for American Progress’ report, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Would Ravage Regions Won by Donald Trump While Giving Tax Breaks to the Rich.”

• Read IFPTE’s issue brief, Support Robust and Responsible Federal Assistance for State and Local Government Programs and Services, here.

• AFL-CIO Report - Higher Costs and Less Care for Families with Job-Based Health Insurance

Tell the Senate: DON’T WEAKEN AI PROVISIONS IN BUDGET RECONCILIATION

Call your senators and tell them to remove this dangerous provision from their budget bill, and stop trying to weaken AI safety rules.

This weekend, the Senate is voting on a budget reconciliation bill that will ban the creation or enforcement of all current or future state and local AI safety rules for the next 10 years. Make no mistake, big tech companies and the AI industry is behind this push to ban state and local governments from enacting laws and standards that stop AI from harming worker rights, civil rights, privacy, and safety. Meanwhile, industry lobbyists are stopping Congress from enacting meaningful and necessary regulations and laws on AI.

• Working people need AI safety rules to stop anti-worker use of AI on the job and in our lives. 

• Workers understand the need for strong AI protections. Recent polling shows 64% of Americans want strong AI regulations.

EVENTS

Labor Rallies and Events

Find labor rallies and union events near you at the AFL-CIO’s mobilze.us page. View a map of labor events and rallies here.