Rapid Response Action Call: Senate Budget Plan Favors the Wealthy, Hurts Working Families

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Today, July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed a devastating budget bill that places a heavy burden on working people and their communities. Here’s what it means for USW members and why we’re standing against it:

• The budget slashes critical Medicaid funding, putting health care services and jobs at risk, both for our members who work in health care and for those whose families and communities depend on these services. These cuts will mean fewer jobs, worse care, and entire communities left without essential health services.
• The budget walks back critical parts of the Inflation Reduction Act – gutting tax credits and grant funding that would have supported advanced manufacturing and reshoring jobs. USW locals poised to benefit from clean energy and industrial investments, in steel, aluminum, battery components, and more, now face an uncertain future.
• The budget includes some small, temporary tax relief for working people, like making overtime pay tax-free. But these provisions are short-lived and minor compared to the large, permanent tax breaks given to corporations and the wealthy.

To see how your Senators voted, click here.
The budget bill now returns to House of Representatives for consideration.

Urge Your U.S. Representative to Oppose the Senate’s Devastating Budget Bill!

Click HERE to send a prewritten email to your U.S. Representative to urge them to oppose the budget bill passed by the Senate.

You can also call them and be directly connected by using our toll-free number. Tell them who you are, where you are from, and to reject the Senate budget that makes working families pay while the rich get richer.

U.S. House of Representatives Toll-Free Number
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