Extreme and immoral. That’s the best way to describe the budget proposal that the House is about to vote on.
If passed, Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s budget—introduced as an opening bid in negotiations to raise the nation’s debt limit—would strip millions of families of access to critical nutrition, housing, and health programs. The proposed cuts would stall our peacemaking agenda, limiting Congress’s ability to meaningfully invest in peacebuilding efforts abroad or support violence interrupter programs in our communities. It would even repeal some of the most essential components of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (Public Law No: 117-169), which took historic steps to address the climate crisis.
Join faith leaders, service providers, advocates, and members of Congress for a rally and press conference opposing the House budget plan on April 26 a noon EDT .
Location
Speakers
- Mary Novak, Executive Director, NETWORK Lobby
- Debbie Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
- Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
- Lauren Reliford, Political Director, Sojourners
- Naveed Shah, Political Director, Common Defense
- Rev. Jimmie Hawkins, Advocacy Director, Presbyterian Church USA, Washington Office of Public Witness, Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations
- Kim Johnson, Policy Manager, National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Luis Guardia, President, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC)
- Laura Packard, Healthcare Activist and Cancer Survivor
- Nicole Jorwic, Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Caring Across Generations
- Bruce Lesley, President, First Focus Campaign for Children
- Kim Johnson, National Low-Income Housing Coalition
- Adileh Sharieff, Islamic Center of Maryland
Sponsoring organizations: Bread for the World; Caring Across Generations; Church World Service; Coalition on Human Needs; Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund; Ecumenical Advocacy Days; First Focus Campaign for Children; Food Research & Action Center; Franciscan Action Network; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Health Care Voices; Interfaith Power and Light; Islamic Relief USA; Justice in Aging; MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger; National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities; National Consumer Law Center; National Council of Churches; National Council of Jewish Women; National Disability Rights Network (NDRN); National Low Income Housing Coalition; National Women’s Law Center; NETWORK Lobby; Patriotic Millionaires; Prosperity Now; Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK); Public Citizen; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Sojourners; The AIDS Institute; United Church of Christ
