Indivisibles,
We are watching a live-time rapid transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, and we NEED to be talking more about it!
On top of his blatant insider trading via yo-yo tariffs, Donald Trump wants to make billionaires like Elon Musk even richer by lowering their taxes even more, and he plans to decimate lifesaving programs to do it.
It’s an extremely unpopular idea, even among Trump’s own voters, but the GOP plans to use a familiar legislative trick (the process called reconciliation) to get it done.
This morning, congressional Republicans completed the first hurdle in this process: getting the House and Senate to agree on a very loose framework for the final bill. They plan to cut $1.5 trillion in unnamed spending — a number only achievable by slashing Medicaid, SNAP, and more — and give the richest Americans $5 trillion in tax breaks.
That was the easy part, and Republicans only got there after a lot of bitter infighting. They remain deeply divided about the specifics of the final bill. That gives us a huge opening to exploit their divisions and obstruct this process as long as we can.
The longer it takes them to write the final bill, the more we can turn public attention against it, make Republicans pay a political price, and ultimately, the better the chance we have to stop it from passing.
The huge stakes of this fight
In short, the Republican plan is to enact trillions (ya, that’s with a T) of dollars in tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. And since letting rich guys like Trump and Musk dodge taxes means less to go around for the rest of us, Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs will get cut to pay for it all.
What does that mean for everyday Americans like us?
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Millions of Americans could lose their healthcare or face medical debt when Medicaid is slashed by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Hospitals and healthcare facilities could close, particularly in rural areas, as federal funding drops sharply and fewer Medicaid patients can afford their services.
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Tens of thousands of kids could go hungry due to planned cuts to SNAP and other nutritional assistance programs that help families keep food on the table.
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Billionaires like Elon Musk will gain even more power as their massive slice of the pie gets even bigger — leaving them extra billions to spend on lobbying, political donations, and, in Musk’s case, even shadier behavior.
The good news: we can win
Republicans know their plan is unpopular, but when Donald Trump wants something, they scramble and grovel and fall in line.
We need to make reconciliation so toxic, so painful, so slow and confusing and arduous, that even the most Trump-fearing MAGA puppets question whether it’s all worth it.
Here’s how we can do that:
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SOUND THE ALARM: We need to ensure their plans and their impacts are known by everyone, everywhere. We’ll do that by talking to neighbors, family, and friends about the harm to our own communities, and sharing educational resources like this link:
https://democrats-budget.house.gov/legislation/republican-middle-class-betrayal
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TURN THE HEAT UP ON REPUBLICANS: Vulnerable and so-called “moderates” on the Republican side will try hiding from constituents and distancing themselves from Trump’s plan — even as they benefit from it. We can’t let them. We need to make them hear us, and we need to make them own this.
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DELAY, DISRUPT, DIVIDE: We need Freedom Caucus Rs screaming at battleground Rs. We need votes that take days to schedule. We need lawyers and parliamentarians throwing sand in all the gears. We need this process to take months that feel like years.
What can you do?
1. If you have a Republican senator, call your senator’s office: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senator-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax-breaks
2. Or send them an email to say you don’t want to pay the price for billionaire tax breaks: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutting-programs-to-fund-handouts-to-billionaires_senate
3. If a Republican represents you in the House, call your GOP representative: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-representative-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax
4. Or send them an email to remind them they work for you — not Musk, Trump, or their oligarch buddies: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutting-programs-to-fund-handouts-to-billionaires
This April, every Republican needs to feel the heat for planning to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs just to fund massive tax giveaways for billionaires.
Thanks for reading all of this, and thanks for being with us in this fight for democracy!
In solidarity, Indivisible Team