rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/tell-your-member-of-congress-raise-the-debt-ceiling-now?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-tell-your-member-of-congress-raise-the-debt-ceiling-now' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> People Power United https://actionnetwork.org/groups/people-power-united https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/425/380/original/Tell_Congress_Increase_the_debt_ceiling_1200x630.png 🔵🔵 Tell your member of Congress: Raise the Debt Ceiling Now The White House announced over the weekend that a deal has been struck with house leader Kevin McCarthy (friendly reminder he lost 14 times the vote to become speaker). Here are the top lines and why we should be advocating to our members of Congress to pass this deal. The bipartisan budget agreement: 🔵Protects the President’s historic legislative accomplishments, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, the PACT Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act—the most aggressive action in our history to tackle the climate crisis, invest in environmental justice, and create millions of clean energy manufacturing jobs. 🔵Beats back extreme cuts to programs millions of hardworking families count on. 🔵Builds on the President’s strong record of deficit reduction and sets the stage for the appropriations process to proceed. 🔵Beat back cuts to Medicaid that would have put health coverage at risk for 21 million people, and insisted on SNAP eligibility expansions for veterans, people who are homeless, and others, while also fighting to minimize SNAP cuts. 🔵Protects the President’s historic action to provide student debt relief to hardworking borrowers recovering from a once in a generation pandemic. 🔵Protects critical public health funding to prepare for—and research treatments and vaccines to protect Americans from—future pandemics and COVID-19 surges. Can you take 1 (one) minute and send a message to your member of congress to raise the debt ceiling now? https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-member-of-congress-raise-the-debt-ceiling-now