John,
Injustice is in front of our eyes. Immigrants are seized after arriving at appointments to comply with immigration rules. They are kidnapped at workplaces and schools, without warrants. Some are children. As protests have swelled, the Trump administration has inflamed confrontations by ordering thousands of National Guard and hundreds of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles. Despite overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations, every burned car provides the visuals the autocrats want.
And then yesterday, many of us watched in horror as we saw videos of a United States Senator manhandled by security staff while seeking to ask questions about the administration’s deployment of military forces in California.1
The autocrats have been working overtime to purge staff and freeze funding, to add hundreds of billions to fund more ICE kidnappings, to slash Medicaid, SNAP food assistance, education, and green energy and jobs, and to further enrich the wealthy with trillions in tax breaks. This is not popular. Repeated polls show substantial majorities of Americans support Medicaid and SNAP.2,3 The public does not want basic needs programs to be cut in order to shovel more tax breaks to rich people.
To distract from their universally unpopular budget, Trump is ratcheting up militaristic confrontations until you get those cars in flames on television. Not enough real flames? Extremist allies can always post false images. While that’s on our screens, Congress will try to hammer out the deal to hand those giant tax breaks to the wealthy and add billions to the anti-immigrant enforcement machine, while slashing basic needs programs.
It's up to us to make sure people across the country know the truth about this plot to fuel a government that harms vulnerable communities, silences dissent, and rewards the billionaires and corporations who bankroll right-wing political campaigns.
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Together, we have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families and communities apart and subverting our democracy. And we must also continue to tell Congress that a big brutal budget bill that denies health coverage and food assistance to millions of people, that threatens public education, and funds military force to threaten our own communities is a bill that must be rejected.
Even as CHN Action and our allies prepare for No Kings Day―this Saturday, June 14, in about 2,000 locations around the country―defense of our democracy and protecting basic needs programs is not a one day thing.
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Thank you for demanding the democracy that our Constitution and our country were built on.
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 WATCH: Sen. Padilla forcibly removed after interrupting Homeland Security news conference in LA
2 Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Help Trump Gut Medicaid Could Pay Dearly
3 Voters in Every Congressional District Oppose Cuts to SNAP
