Today, Repairers of the Breach, in partnership with the Institute for Policy Studies and the Economic Policy Institute, published a powerful new report, The High Moral Stake: Our Budget, Our Future This groundbreaking analysis examines the dangerous budget cuts being proposed by the new administration and Congress, and how these cuts will impact the nation as a whole as well as vulnerable communities.
“Budgets are moral documents,” said Bishop William J. Barber, II, President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach. “We are releasing this powerful report to expose for the American people how immoral, dangerous and insane the administration’s proposed economic decisions are and how they are going to hurt people. At this critical moment in our nation’s history, we need a government that promotes unity and love towards all members of the human family, not division and hatred.”
“This report’s data make clear that the Trump-GOP agenda would tilt the playing field even further away from poor and low-income people in favor of the wealthy and big corporations,” said Tope Folarin, Executive Director of Institute for Policy Studies. “We will see more families go hungry, lose healthcare, and struggle to pay rent while Republicans give huge tax windfalls and unprecedented political power to the wealthiest Americans and throw more tax dollars into the machines of war and mass deportation.”
“The Trump-Vance administration and Republicans in Congress are advancing an agenda that will make draconian cuts to social programs, including health care and food assistance for children and families,” said Heidi Shierholz, President of the Economic Policy Institute. “As this report shows, these cuts will be profoundly destructive to incomes and economic security for this country’s most vulnerable households—and they are being done for the sole purpose of providing tax cuts that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest households. This is an upside-down agenda that literally takes from struggling families to line the pockets of billionaires. We stand against this—and we stand for moral economic policies that lift up the most vulnerable, strengthen our communities, and ensure prosperity is shared by all.”
You can download The High Moral Stakes: Our Budget, Our Future report by clicking here. Below are 10 key takeaways:
- Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Wants To Cut The Social Safety Net.
- This unelected body has proposed $2 trillion in cuts, which threatens Medicaid, SNAP, Head Start, and other vital programs.
- Medicaid Is Under Siege:
- Proposed budget cuts risk the health coverage of 36 million Americans, including older adults and people with disabilities.
- American Housing Is In Crisis:
- Slashing federal rental assistance will place millions at risk of homelessness amid a worsening housing affordability crisis.
- Social Security and Medicare at Risk:
- Without dramatic cuts to other areas, these lifelines are the only protection for 68 million seniors and millions with disabilities.
- Tax Breaks for the Ultra-Rich:
- A proposed $4.5 trillion in tax cuts will enrich billionaires while burdening working families with higher taxes.
- Eroding Workers’ Rights:
- Policies that suppress the minimum wage, weaken unions, and roll back labor protections threaten decades of progress for working people.
- Food Assistance Is Being Stripped Away:
- A potential $230 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) jeopardizes the nutritional health of 40 million people — including children.
- Mass Deportations and Immigrant Injustice:
- Aggressive immigration policies and deportation orders will devastate families and harm our communities and economy.
- Militarizing the Budget:
- Proposed increases of up to $345 billion for the Pentagon and mass deportations divert resources from essential social programs.
- Threats of New Wars:
- Moves toward military intervention both abroad and at home signal a dangerous future of conflict instead of investing in human well-being.
These are just a few key takeaways about how proposed budget cuts will negatively impact the nation as a whole and vulnerable communities.
In response to these immoral attacks, Repairers of the Breach calls on the public to engage in nonviolent moral dissent. We encourage people of moral conscience to:
- Download and read the full report.
- Share the report on social media.
- Read and sign an open letter from moral leaders to our fellow Americans, “A National Call for Repentance and Truth-Telling”
- Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and support our mass voter registration efforts.
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