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“Praying Against the Largest Transfer of Wealth from the Poor to the Rich in US History”: Moral Monday returns to the US Capitol
National faith leaders and advocacy groups return to challenge big, bad, deadly bill after arrests in Capitol rotunda
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Clergy, advocates, and directly impacted people from across the country will gather outside the US Capitol on June 2 for the latest Moral Monday demonstration confronting harmful policies from Congress and the administration.
The June Moral Monday will confront the tax and spending plan that passed the US House before Memorial Day and is now before the US Senate. If this bill were to become law, it would represent the single largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history.
Uniting directly impacted people, people with disabilities, moral advocates, and community leaders, the Moral Monday coalition will lift a prophetic voice in prayer and protest, rejecting a plan that threatens the lives and dignity of millions of Americans.
“This budget is not just bad policy, it is sin. It will rob the poor, starve children, and deny care to the sick in order to line the pockets of the wealthy. We will not stand by while it preys on the most vulnerable. Not on our watch,” said Bishop Barber.
This Moral Monday action will begin with a mass meeting at 9:00 a.m. ET at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 301 A Street SE. From there, participants will march in sacred resistance to the Capitol’s east front.
Barber and other moral leaders were arrested in the Capitol rotunda on two consecutive Moral Mondays for nonviolently refusing to stop praying for those who will be harmed by cuts to Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and clean energy to pay for tax cuts for the rich, the war economy, and an extreme deportation force.
The event is part of a continuing series of Moral Mondays organized by Repairers of the Breach, under the leadership of Bishop William J. Barber II. Joining Repairers of the Breach as organizing partners are Indivisible, the National Urban League, Masjid Muhammed, the National Council of Churches, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the AME Zion Church, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Presbyterian Church USA, the United Church of Christ, the Ohio Council of Churches, Red Letter Christians, and Sojourners.
Repairers of the Breach is a national movement building organization that works to support moral leaders who uplift our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of America.
Event Details:
WHAT: Moral Monday at the Capitol — A public action of prayer and protest against the proposed federal budget
WHEN:
- PRE-GATHERING: 9:00 AM at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 301 A Street SE
- MARCH: Monday, June 2, 2025 | 11:00 AM
WHERE: Steps of the U.S. Supreme Court | 1 First St NE, Washington, D.C. 20543
WHO:
- Bishop William J. Barber II, President of Repairers of the Breach
- National clergy from diverse traditions, including Rev Tony Larson, co-moderator of the PCUSA and Rev Jimmie Hawkins, Social Justice Director of the PCUSA
- Directly impacted people, including Sloan Meek and Suvya Carrol whose lives depend on Medicaid
- Moral activists, union leaders, and policy experts
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The proposed reconciliation package includes:
- $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid, threatening care for seniors, people with disabilities, low-income families, and rural hospitals across the nation.
- $280 billion in cuts to food assistance, endangering the lives of nearly 11 million Americans who rely on SNAP to avoid hunger, including more than 3 million children.
- Tax cuts that would give $1.1 billion to the wealthiest Americans while increasing the debt by $3 trillion.
- A dramatic tripling of the size of the deportation force that is currently being abused to terrorize immigrant communities without regard for due process.
Moral Monday participants will join their voices with the cries of those who know that this legislation would harm our communities, praying together and visiting Senate offices to pray with members who have the power to stop this devastation.
This is not a partisan protest. This is a moral revival, a clarion call for justice rooted in the sacred traditions of all faiths. We call on Congress and the White House to reject this death-dealing budget and instead enact policies that protect the poor, the working class, and the marginalized.