URGENT CALL-TO-ACTION: McCarthy and MAGA Republicans Need to Stop Screwing Americans
🗽There is no power greater than a community discovering the truth and taking action to ensure it never happens again
🔴🔴 Urgent Call-To-Action-Vote on the floor is happening this week
Fourteen-time-loser Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has cowered to MAGA extremists and is holding the American people hostage.
Let’s be clear, the negotiations for the raising of the debt ceiling is for current bills. Imagine in your own home, you incurred debt and your choice is to file bankruptcy (and in this case crash the American economy, put millions of people out of work, and cause folks into homelessness) or you can seek a temporary increase in your credit and ways to reduce your debt.
The harm that radical republicans are causing is dangerous. McCarthy and these radical republicans are showing they are not serious about negotiating and representing the American people. They would rather play political games by seeking media hits and likes for extremist ideology such as cutting veteran’s benefits, social security, medicaid, food stamps, energy assistance, and other programs. Additionally this is a national security risk and puts our nation at risk.
Actions We Can Take
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Call your Representative (202) 224-3121 and tell them to VOTE NO on McCarthy’s plan. See talking points and facts below.
Talking Points About The MAGA Default Plan
Threatens 22% cuts to education, veterans’ health care, child care, and opioids treatment.
Endangers public safety, cutting funding for over 2,000 Customs and Border Protection Agents, 11,000 FBI personnel, and hundreds of local law enforcement positions.
Makes traveling harder and less safe, shutting down 125 air traffic control towers, increasing airport security wait times and slashing rail safety inspections.
Hurts our children’s education, eliminating Pell Grants for 80,000 students and causing 300,000 kids to lose access to Headstart and child care.
Sends good-paying American manufacturing jobs overseas by repealing clean energy investments from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Cuts Medicaid for 2 million people.
Evicts hundreds of thousands of families, older adults, veterans and people with disabilities from Section 8 housing and cuts rental assistance.
Takes away food assistance from more than one million seniors and 1.2 million women, babies, and children.
Takes away health care access for 2 million people via Community Health Centers, disproportionately impacting rural areas.
Acknowledgements and Works Cited:
Petkanas Strategies
McCarthy’s prescription for debt ceiling is bad medicine for older Americans
Republicans Are Playing Into the Hands of Putin and Xi
Kevin McCarthy's clown car is headed right into a debt ceiling crisis
Budget Cut Proposals Would Hurt Veterans
Here’s what’s in the House GOP debt limit bill
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