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Bishop William J. Barber, II and Repairers of the Breach To Host Public Press Rally  for 36 Million Americans Cut From Medicaid and 15 Million Children Who Will Go Hungry Under Proposed Budget

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Monday, April 28, America’s conscience will come to Capitol Hill to challenge the immoral proposed budget that would slash essential aid for the most vulnerable to give tax breaks to billionaires. A historic coalition of clergy—Pastors, Rabbis, Imams, and faith leaders of every race and tradition led by Bishop William J. Barber II–will stand shoulder-to-shoulder in full vestments with directly impacted people to issue a thunderous moral indictment of federal budget cuts threatening the lives of the nation’s most vulnerable. This is not politics as usual. This is a moral and spiritual crisis.

Repairers of the Breach will host Moral Mondays at the Capitol, gathering impacted persons, faith leaders, and moral activists, to hold a prayer protest rally and press conference to dissent against proposed federal budget cuts and policies that destroy lives. Leaders will urge Congressional leaders to enact a moral budget that prioritizes the needs of the poor, women, children, and workers. This event marks the twelfth anniversary of the historic Moral Mondays movement and the first Moral Mondays demonstration in D.C. under the new Administration.

Following the press rally the clergy and impacted persons and advocates will go to the US Capitol to deliver a written moral analysis done by Repairers and the Institute for Policy Studies.

Workers, children, and the poor are suffering at the hands of extremists in Congress and the Trump Administration, and religious leaders are declaring that they will not stand down in the face of this national emergency. The historic coalition of leaders will raise moral dissent at the proposed federal budget, which is a direct attack on the most vulnerable Americans:   

• Medicaid: $880 billion in proposed cuts will gut the largest source of health care for people with disabilities, seniors, and struggling families. These cuts threaten to shutter hospitals, strip away nursing home care, and deny life-saving therapies to children with disabilities.
• Food Assistance (SNAP): Nearly 15 million children—40% of all SNAP recipients—face the specter of hunger. These cuts will roll back decades of progress, hitting Black and Latino children hardest and deepening racial health disparities.
• Housing: Slashed funding and frozen support will eliminate tens of thousands of rental vouchers, cripple homeless services, and devastate communities already reeling from rising rents and homelessness.

These cuts are not shared equally. Black, Latino, and Indigenous families—already overrepresented among low-income households—will bear the brunt, deepening America’s structural inequities.

Hundreds of faith leaders have already united to declare: Budgets are moral documents. As Bishop Barber II has proclaimed, “We abdicate our own call and our own moral capacity if we walk away from this moment. And we’re not going to walk away from this moment.”

This is a national moral reckoning. The eyes of the world are watching. Will Congress choose justice—or will it turn its back on the poor, the sick, and the hungry?

On April 28, faith leaders will answer with a resounding, united voice: Not on our watch.

This is not a partisan protest. This is a moral resurrection.

A Moral Outcry—Rooted in Scripture, Driven by Conscience

• WHO:

• • • Bishop William J. Barber II, President & Sr. Lecturer, Repairers of the Breach; Founding Director of Yale Center for Public Theology & Public Policy, and National Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and host of other clergy 
    • Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League
    • Rabbi David Shneyer, founder and director of Am Kolel
    • Reverend Kazimir Brown, Executive Director and Vice President of the Repairers of the Breach 
    • Reverend Ottis Johnson, Jr., National Vice President of the 14th District of the American Federation of Government Employees
    • Reverend Alvin O’Neal Jackson, National Faith Convener, Keeping the Faith Campaign, Repairers of the Breach
    • National Clergy and Faith Leaders from diverse traditions, including Pastors, Rabbis, and Imams, organized to preach.
    • Spokespeople from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
    • Union representatives and impacted workers
    • Moral activists and community partners

• WHAT:  Moral Monday at the Capitol. Gathering in front of the Supreme Court steps and march to protest an immoral budget.

• WHEN: Monday, April 28, 2025, 11:00 AM 

• WHERE: U.S. Supreme Court, 1 First St NE, Washington, D.C. 20543

• RSVP: Press please RSVP HERE.