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Write to Congress: Don’t hurt families receiving Medicaid and SNAP to give tax cuts to billionaires!
Trump’s plan is more than bad policy—it’s a full-scale attack on union members, our jobs, our families and our future. It pulls up the ladder of opportunity by defunding public education, dismantling healthcare and taking food off our kids’ plates. It sells out working people to reward billionaires, offshores our jobs, and guts the protections union members fought for.
We won’t stand by while the Trump administration punishes us for being working-class.
Nutrition: Starving Working Families to Feed the Rich
Snatches up to $200 billion in food support from as many as 8 million people, including 2.5 million children growing up in working-class communities.
Adds punitive work requirements for food assistance that could disqualify another 3.2 million parents and older Americans—many of whom are already working part time, juggling multiple jobs or caring for family.
Strips away school meals from up to 18 million kids, including kids from the working families who rely on these programs to make sure their kids don’t go to class hungry.
The bottom line: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” takes food off the tables of working families by cutting help for children, seniors and struggling workers while handing billions to the wealthy.
Education: Pulling up the Ladder of Opportunity
Creates a permanent $36 billion private school voucher scheme that drains resources from our neighborhood public schools, undermining the schools where our families send their kids and where our members work.
Guts more than $300 billion from higher education, driving up college costs and loan repayment costs—putting college out of reach for our kids and grandkids—and slashing financial aid and support for public institutions.
Targets nearly 12.5 million student loan borrowers by eliminating income-driven repayment options, which will double or triple payments for many borrowers.
Jeopardizes training for essential union-represented careers like educators, early childhood workers and social workers by forcing schools to restrict access to federal aid and limiting what programs students can enroll in.
Eliminates federal grad PLUS loans, pushing more than 425,000 students into risky private loans without protections or eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Strips relief from students scammed by for-profit colleges, abandoning working people who were scammed by predatory colleges while trying to improve their lives through education.
Raids up to $6.7 billion from university endowments, slashing funding that supports scholarships, medical research and student aid for working families.
The bottom line: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would rig the education system against working families, putting our children’s futures and our communities at risk to reward billionaire donors and corporate profiteers.
Healthcare: Jeopardizing the Health of Working Families
Compromises health insurance for 16 million Americans, putting working families one illness away from financial disaster and leading to more than 51,000 preventable deaths every year.
Slashes $500 billion from Medicare, threatening the care retirees rely on to enjoy the retirement they earned through a lifetime of work.
Endangers the current hospital system by pushing urban and rural hospitals and hospital-owned clinics to the brink.
Raises premiums for more than 20 million people who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act, while letting insurance companies jack up out-of-pocket costs for all working people by as much as $450 per person.
Hikes healthcare costs by up to $485 a year for the 179 million Americans with employment-based coverage, including those with union-negotiated plans.
Cuts off funding to Planned Parenthood, reducing access to critical reproductive health services relied on by millions of families.
Puts as many as 607,000 healthcare jobs on the chopping block, threatening the livelihoods of union workers in hospitals, clinics and care facilities and reducing access to healthcare for the communities they serve.
Caps how states fund healthcare, forcing devastating cuts to services or unfair tax hikes that hit working families hardest.
The bottom line: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks working families by ripping away health insurance coverage, raising our costs and cutting jobs just to bankroll more tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.
Economy: A Job-killing Giveaway to Corporate America
Puts hundreds of thousands of jobs on the chopping block—from construction and manufacturing to food production and retail—as corporate profits are prioritized over American workers.
Guts clean energy tax credits, risking 330,000 well-paying jobs, including union construction and skilled trades positions, and making it harder for public schools and public buildings to upgrade their energy systems.
Hikes energy bills by up to $290 for working families, hurting household finances and small-business owners the most.
Drives up mortgage and credit card interest rates, forcing working families to pay more to own a home, build credit or take care of household needs.
Greenlights the outsourcing of union jobs overseas by permanently extending tax loopholes that reward corporations for shipping work abroad and dodging U.S. taxes.
Blocks states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade, stripping away protections that keep kids safe from manipulative chatbots and workers safe from exploitative tech in the workplace.
The bottom line: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” threatens the jobs, wages and financial stability that union families have fought for, handing out favors to corporations while working people pay the price.
Taxes: Forcing Us to Do More with Less
What they’re gaining: | What you’re losing: |
| Enables wealthy elites to inherit upward of $30 million in unearned wealth tax-free, while working families are taxed on every paycheck. | Slashes the child tax credit, cutting off up to 4.5 million children from vital support, while the wealthy continue collecting endless tax breaks. |
| Siphons $20 billion in public dollars into a private school voucher scam, giving the rich a new tax shelter while robbing our public schools of the funding our kids and communities rely on. | Refuses to raise the educator tax deduction, leaving teachers unable to claim most of the classroom supplies they pay for out of pocket. |
| Expands the “pass-through” loophole so corporations and wealthy investors can hide income and dodge taxes while workers pick up the tab. | Locks in the cap on state and local tax deductions, draining resources from states that invest in public education, infrastructure and essential services. |
| Rewards outsourcing by locking in permanent tax breaks for corporations that ship good union jobs overseas. | Blocks workers from deducting union dues and job-related expenses, effectively taxing union membership and making it more expensive to stand together. |
| Grants hedge fund managers lower tax rates than who people who work for a living, including nurses, teachers, public employees and tradespeople. | Raises taxes on low-income workers by throwing up new barriers to the earned income tax credit, punishing the very people who do the hardest jobs for the lowest pay. |
The bottom line: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a big, ugly betrayal to the people who build, teach, heal and serve America every day, just to pay for a deliberate transfer of wealth from the nurses, teachers and union members who keep this country running, to the ultra-wealthy and corporate elite.