Congress is making a defining choice about our national priorities. Right now, congressional Republicans are pushing a proposal that would cut essential programs that support families in order to finance billions for detention and deportation. Take action now―tell lawmakers to invest in basic needs, not deportations.

Last summer, Congress gutted health care, nutrition, and other basic needs programs―at a time when prices continue to rise and funding for programs is insufficient to help people keep up with today’s high cost of living.

These historic cuts to food, health, and other programs will hurt millions of vulnerable Americans who depend on these benefits. It is outrageous that Congress is now looking to double down on these massive cuts.

Congress also gave ICE $30 billion to detain and deport immigrants and $45 billion to build new detention facilities in the Big Brutal Bill―part of a massive infusion of cash with little oversight or accountability. Rewarding them with more money will just give them more resources to terrorize our communities and harass our children, racially profile our neighbors, and commit assault.

Republicans in Congress are in talks to fast-track another unjust spending bill―one that wouldn’t need Democratic support―using even more cuts to health care and other basic needs programs, in order to fund ICE for three more years and fuel massive increases in the Pentagon budget.

ICE doesn’t need more money. And the Pentagon just received a record $1 trillion budget.

Instead of more money for ICE and a bloated Pentagon budget, any additional funding should go toward reversing the severe cuts made to SNAP, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act that were in last year’s Big Brutal Bill. Nearly 15 million people will lose health coverage due to the $1.02 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and other programs by 2034. The bill also cut SNAP by $187 billion―the largest cut in the program's history―and will mean millions of people will lose all or some of their SNAP benefits and increase state costs, leading to cuts in other basic needs programs.

We cannot keep funding terror while cutting critical human needs programs that make us all safer. With Congress looking to move legislation quickly to enact another massive budget package, we need to speak up now.

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