The American Dream is built on the idea that each person would be able to meet their essential human needs as well as their wildest dreams of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To enact a dream, one cannot be caught in a cycle of survival wherein they are looking for their next meal, housing or worrying about keeping themselves and their loved ones healthy.  

Yet Congress is on the brink of passing a bill which would force millions of people to choose between a doctor’s visit and a full meal—all while increasing the national debt by $4 trillion, giving tax cuts to billionaires, and funding increased detention and deportation of our immigrant neighbors. 

As Christians, we will not allow the budget to be “balanced” on the backs of low-income communities. This budget reconciliation bill, if passed, would cause 10.1 million people to lose Medicaid coverage, and 4 million children to go hungry without SNAP benefits. It would also exclude over 2 million U.S. citizen children from the child tax credit because one of their parents is not a U.S. citizen, punishing children for their parents’ immigration status. Additionally, this bill would increase spending on the detention and deportation of our immigrant neighbors by over 40% while allowing the wealthy to skirt taxes on inherited investments and corporations to deduct even more in taxes.  

By supporting this bill, our elected officials are allowing more children to go hungry, more sick people to die, and more of our sacred neighbors to lose their homes. The only ones who will benefit from this bill are those who have more than enough. 

As the Senate prepares to vote on this legislation as daily costs continue to rise, tell Congress to vote NO on this budget reconciliation bill!