The Senate may vote on its budget reconciliation bill this week, and as they currently stand, both the House-passed and the proposed Senate budget bills contain historic tax breaks for billionaires and rich corporations, paid for by slashing critical programs, especially Medicaid.

Can you use this form to email Sen. Susan Collins and tell her to vote NO and instead fund the programs so many of us rely on?

Trump and his billionaire friends are moving fast to eliminate health care coverage and food assistance for millions of Americans. It’s all part of a huge reconciliation bill that will cut more than a trillion dollars (you read that right!) from health coverage and food aid, to fund a huge tax cut for billionaires.

Republicans have majorities in Congress and support from billionaire donors, and they want us to feel like there’s nothing we can do to stop their reckless greedy agenda. They want us to feel powerless to stop them.

But we CAN stop them. Email Collins today to tell her to protect our programs and fight for everyday Mainers! Enter your information in this form and then send the pre-written email we’ve provided on the next page. Thank you!

Here’s some more information on what’s at stake:

• Up to 34,000 Mainers could lose Medicaid coverage, and 31,000 could lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

• Most of the people who will lose their coverage won’t lose it because they aren’t eligible. They’ll lose it by getting buried under mountains of red tape and relentless bureaucratic requirements. It also ends help for low-income seniors on Medicare, blocks access to gender-affirming care, and cuts access to basic health care services including cancer screenings offered by Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health providers.

• It will blow an almost $190 million hole in our state budget: $90 million penalty for covering immigrant children, pregnant and postpartum people; $97 million to cover SNAP.

• For nearly 50 years, the feds covered 100% of SNAP food benefits — because fighting hunger was a national promise. This bill breaks that promise and dumps the cost on states like Maine.

• They say they’re cutting programs for “waste, fraud, & abuse.” In reality, they’re passing the buck to states while burying struggling families in red tape and making food and health care more expensive. All to fund tax cuts for the rich.