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FEDERAL BUDGET ACTION DAYS!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 (See toll-free number below)
And/or TUESDAY, MARCH 8
? Ask your Senators and Rep. to tell the Budget Committee they will vote against any budget that fails to protect children, older people, and families by cutting Medicaid, nutrition programs, education, job training, housing, and other vital services.
? Tell them to oppose any budget that cuts basic services now or sets rigid caps that cut more and more each year. Tell them these cuts will hurt your state.
The House and Senate Budget Committees are expected to draft their budget resolutions starting the week of March 7. That's why we are asking you to call and to encourage everyone you know to join in on March 2 and/or March 8.
TOLL-FREE NUMBER FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2:
1-800-247-2971
This toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee which has launched a new budget campaign, www.saveourservices.org If you can't get through on that line, please call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121, or find your Senators' direct line at www.senate.gov.
What's at stake: Congress will be working off the President's budget recommendations, which made cuts in Medicaid, Food Stamps, child care, housing, and many other vital services.
The President's budget not only proposed cuts for the coming year, but proposed a 5-year cap (not one dime more) on the total amount for programs that need annual appropriations (so-called "discretionary" programs -- like education, housing, WIC, Head Start, and many more). Inflation alone will shrink these programs by 16 percent in the 5th year. The House and Senate Budget Committee chairs have been talking about applying a similarly restrictive cap on basic programs like Medicaid, Food Stamps, services for abused and neglected children, child care, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). (If you read about caps or cuts in "mandatory" or "entitlement" programs, this is what they're talking about.)
PLEASE CALL IN TO OPPOSE THESE UNFAIR AND UNWISE CUTS!
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