John,

Last week, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed a shameful budget bill with tax cuts for billionaires and healthcare cuts for our families.

I voted no, and I will keep fighting to block this bill as it heads to the Senate. Because if it passes the Senate and gets signed into law, it will kick tens of millions of Americans off food assistance, healthcare, and assistance with energy bills. It will take food out of the mouths of hungry kids and thousands of Americans will needlessly die.

We cannot accept their pro-death agenda. We must fight for our shared humanity.

Will you join me in the fight and chip in today so I can keep building the movement in Congress to invest in life and divest from war and destruction?

This budget bill cuts more than $1 trillion of taxpayer money from life-saving programs, while handing trillions of dollars to billionaires, weapons corporations and the military, ICE and private prisons, and corporate polluters.

This is the exact opposite of what our government should be doing.

We live in the richest country in the world, yet we have some of the highest poverty rates among advanced democracies. We have the resources to house and feed everyone and provide universal healthcare, all of which are human rights. Poverty is a policy choice, and we can end it together.

I will keep leading the fight in Congress for transformative policies to end poverty, including sending monthly direct payments to families, ending utility and medical debt, and ensuring access to utilities like water and power.  

Will you chip in today to join me in the fight for a liberated future, where everyone has what they need to thrive?

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Thank you for continuing to defend our rights and our shared humanity. Each of us has human dignity and worth, and we belong here. You are not alone.

WIth you in this fight,

Rashida

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From: Rashida Tlaib
Date: Fri, May 23, 2025
Subject: Tax cuts for billionaires and healthcare cuts for our families
To: [email protected]

John,

Yesterday, I voted NO on Republicans’ harmful budget reconciliation bill, which passed through the House of Representatives.

They’re betraying our families, giving a $5.5 trillion handout to the rich and corporations while cutting more than $1 trillion from life-saving programs including Medicaid and SNAP. This will kick tens of millions of Americans off their healthcare, food assistance, and energy assistance.

Cutting off essential services is a form of violence: If this budget passes the Senate, thousands of Americans will needlessly die. Already, most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and many are struggling to put food on the table and pay their bills.

Instead of investing in our communities’ needs, Republicans’ anti-life budget would spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on war, deportations, and immigration detention.

This is an outrage. I’m fighting back, and I’m hoping you’ll join me. Will you chip into my campaign today to resist this administration and fight back against the Billionaire Budget?

I will keep pushing to block this bill from being signed into law, as it now heads to the Senate. And I’ll keep leading the fight in Congress to cut military and ICE funding and instead invest in human rights like utilities and healthcare.

We live in the richest country in the world, with the resources to guarantee all Americans what they need to thrive. But we have some of the highest poverty rates among advanced democracies—because poverty is a policy choice.

I’m leading legislation to end poverty by sending money directly to unhoused youth and to all families with children, and pushing to end medical debt.

I promise I will not waver in the fight for marginalized and working class people. I never take money from corporate PACs, and I never will.

Will you chip into my campaign today to fight for our communities?

If passed as-is, this Billionaire Budget will cut off utility assistance to lower-income Americans, cut environmental justice and clean energy funding, weaken crucial environmental protections, and take away opportunities for people to object to corporate polluter projects that are decimating our planet and making our families sick.

As a community activist and lawmaker, I’ve fought for years for the human right to drink clean water and breathe clean air. I will keep fighting for environmental justice.

I’ve passed legislation through the House of Representatives to stop water and power shutoffs, and secured more than $1.1 billion in federal funding to assist lower-income households in paying off their water bills and reconnection fees.

I’ve also introduced transformative legislation to address environmental racism, limit harmful emissions, empower frontline communities most impacted by pollution and climate change, and hold corporate polluters accountable.

I will not back down in the fight for a humane and just immigration system rooted in dignity, with real pathways to citizenship.

As a former immigration attorney now serving in Congress, I’ve introduced legislation to release people from ICE detention, and to protect immigrant families by ensuring due process in immigration removal proceedings. Our movement is building to protect the right to due process and free speech for all.

Together, we will continue pushing for a true democracy that puts people over profits, and a liberated future where everyone can thrive. We’re up against powerful people, but there are so many more of us. Major change has only happened when the people come together.

Together we have power.

Can you chip in today to carry on the urgent fight for our rights and our lives?

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Thank you so much for fighting alongside me for justice and dignity for all.

With you in the fight against fascism and for a better future,

Rashida