For Immediate Release: February 20, 2025
Contact: media@communitychange.org
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a budget resolution that lays out priorities for the Republican-led chamber. The resolution includes language instructing Senate Committees to increase Pentagon spending by up to $150 billion and immigration enforcement and mass deportation spending by up to $350 billion while calling for deep cuts from committees with jurisdiction over Medicaid, SNAP, student loans, and more.
Community Change Action’s Co-President Dorian Warren issued the following statement in response:
“The imminent vote on the Senate budget resolution reminds us what we are fighting for: a country that helps its poorest, protects its most vulnerable, and enables people of all backgrounds to thrive.
Republicans have long had their eye on gutting our essential public programs so that they can fund their cruel anti-immigrant agenda and ensure the rich can continue to hoard their wealth while leaving so little for the rest of us. MAGA’s playbook of fueling division between our communities is meant to be a distraction while they rob us to line their own pockets.
Elected officials need to stop treating their constituents as disposable. Instead, they must fight to protect health coverage and food benefits for poor people instead of favoring billionaires. They were elected to serve their communities, not the president or Elon Musk. Poverty is a policy choice, and today Republicans are choosing to push millions of people further into poverty. We urge Senators to find their moral core and vote no on the Senate budget resolution.”
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