ACTION GUIDE: Taking Down The MAGA Murder Budget

A whole bunch of ways we can fight against Trump paying for tax cuts for billionaires with our health care and food assistance

Contact all members of Congress:

• By phone: (202) 224-3121

• By email: Congress.gov

• By US mail: Representatives / Senators

• By fax: Representatives / Senators

• By Resistbot: Resist.bot

If you have additional resources or events for this list, please submit them to roganslisttips@gmail.com!

The MAGA budget reconciliation bill would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history (check out summaries from the Center for American Progress and the Progressive Caucus). House Republicans objected to initial drafts and successfully made it even worse. There are now even more tax cuts for high-income families, and rollbacks of clean energy tax credits that will raise our energy bills and Medicaid cuts that will leave 7.6 million people uninsured will kick in even sooner, plus bans on Medicaid from paying for gender-affirming care and insurance on Obamacare exchanges from covering transition. (More changes here.)

The bill passed the House 215-214-1, with all Democrats and two Republicans voting no, and is now headed to the Senate, where multiple lawmakers are calling for significant changes. This is a moment to pull out all the stops and do everything we can to kill the murder bill.

Scroll through this page for ways we can help – including calling our own reps, tools for activating our friends and neighbors, guides on how to share our stories of how the programs hit in the bill have helped us, pressuring the media to cover its impact, tips on putting together a great letter to the editor, sign-ups for phonebanking and doorknocking to key constituencies, district-by-district stats, talking points and sample social media content.

Last updated 6/20/25.

CALL OUR OWN REPS

We can find scripts and emails we can work off of to contact our members of Congress for the full bill here and here thanks to Indivisible.

To call on some of the many terrifying individual provisions included:

• Medicaid cuts phone script

• Medicaid work requirements language and Resistbot

• SNAP cuts email language and Resistbot

• Massive increase in funds for deportation machine script and Resistbot language, plus email tool from the National Immigration Law Center

• Eliminating the clean energy tax cuts from the Inflation Reduction Act language and Resistbot

• Trillion dollar Pentagon budget and billions for Elon Musk phone script

• Failing to extend premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act language and Resistbot

• Attacks on gender-affirming health care script language

• Stripping judges of power to enforce contempt of court (Section 70302) language and Resistbot

• Public funds for corporate schools phone script here

• Defunding Planned Parenthood email tool

• Ban on AI regulation scripts and Resistbot

• Other harmful provisions

REACH OUT TO FOLKS AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO SPEAK UP

• Sample language to use for directly asking a friend or loved one to call Congress via Matthew Cortland

• Get connected with like-minded neighbors with Indivisible’s Neighbor2Neighbor program

• Help engaging people we know with the Empower App

SHARE STORIES OF HOW PROGRAMS TARGETED IN THIS BILL HAVE IMPACTED OUR LIVES

• Tips on how to shape our stories from Vote Save America here

• Submit our stories to the People’s Action Institute here

• And of course we can share our experiences on social media, with our own or friendly members of Congress as well and our local media outlets as well!

PRESSURING THE MEDIA

• Tool for writing local news rooms and NPR stations to encourage them to cover the impact of the budget on real people’s lives from National Campaign for Justice

WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• General letter to the editor guide from Fair Share America

• Sample talking points and tools to write a letter to the editor about Medicaid cuts from MomsRising

PHONEBANK FOLKS IN KEY CONSTITUENCIES

• MONDAY

  • 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders, sign up here (through 6/23)

  • 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn, sign up here (6/23 only)

• TUESDAY

  • 1PM-2:45 PM with Food and Water Watch, sign up here (6/24 only)

  • 2PM-4PM ET with BlueVote.org, sign up here (weekly)

  • 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders, sign up here (through 6/24)

  • 5:30PM-10:30PM ET with Together for CA Health, sign up here

  • 5:30PM-10:15PM ET with Grassroots Democrats HQ and

    Chop Wood, Carry Water, sign up here

  • 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn, sign up here (6/24 only)

• WEDNESDAY

  • 10AM-12PM ET, 12PM-2PM ET with Alliance for Retired Americans, sign up here (6/18, 6/25 only)

  • 11AM-12:30PM ET with Indivisible, sign up here

  • 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders, sign up here (through 6/25)

  • 5:30PM-10:30PM ET with Together for CA Health, sign up here

  • 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn, sign up here (6/25 only)

• THURSDAY

  • 11AM-12:30PM ET with Indivisible, sign up here

  • 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders, sign up here

  • 5:30PM-10:15PM ET with Grassroots Democrats HQ and

    Chop Wood, Carry Water
    , sign up here

  • 5:30PM-10:30PM ET with Together for CA Health, sign up here

  • 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn, sign up here (6/26 only)

  • 6PM-8:30PM ET with People’s Action, sign up here

• FRIDAY

  • 1PM-2PM ET with Citizen Action Illinois, sign up here

• SATURDAY

  • 10AM-12PM ET with BlueVote.org, sign up here (weekly)

  • 11AM-1PM ET with Fighting Oligarchy, sign up here (6/21 only)

  • 1PM-3:30PM ET with People’s Action, sign up here

  • 1:30PM-6:30PM ET with Together for CA Health, sign up here

• SUNDAY

  • 11AM-1PM ET with Fighting Oligarchy, sign up here (6/22 only)

  • 1:30PM-6:30PM ET with Together for CA Health, sign up here

DOOR-KNOCKING IN KEY CONSTITUENCIES

• With Working Families Power, sign up here (on hold)

SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT

• From DemCast

• From The Century Foundation

• From Freedom Writers Collaborative

• From Food Research & Action Center

• From Americans for Tax Fairness

• From the Into Action Content Library

DISTRICT AND STATE STATS

• District-by-district stats on how many people will be hurt

• Dashboard on Medicaid reliance by district

• How many people in our district benefit from SNAP

• State Impact Sheets

• How many jobs will be killed

• The cost for family budgets

• How GOP districts are benefiting from the Inflation Reduction Act

TALKING POINTS AND MESSAGING GUIDANCE

• The bill cuts services working people rely on to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. The rich will get richer, and low-income families will get poorer.

  • Americans who make less than $51,000 a year will see after-tax income fall $700-$1000 after 2026. Americans in the top 0.1% of income will see after-tax income rise more than $389,000. (Penn Wharton)

  • More than half the benefits of extending the Trump tax scam will go to people making more than $450,000 a year (Tax Policy Center)

  • “Household resources would fall by about 2 percent of income for the lowest-income 10 percent of households by 2027, and 4 percent by 2033… the top 10 percent of households would see their household resources rise 4 percent by 2027 and 2 percent in 2033” (CBO preliminary analysis, 5/20)

• The bill will raise the price of things regular Americans need

  • Median home loan will rise $600-$1240 a year (CAP, 5/5)

  • Household electric costs will rise by an average of $113 by 2026 (CAP, 5/5)

• The bill will kick millions of Americans off their health insurance and raise the cost of health care for millions more - and will cost lives

  • At least 15 million will lose health insurance and become uninsured by 2034 (CBPP, 5/1)

    • 7.6 million people will be kicked off Medicaid and become uninsured (CBO)

    • 3.9 million people will become uninsured due to changes to Affordable Care Act marketplace rules (CBPP, 5/1)

    • 4.2 million people will lose insurance due to the expiration of the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits (Urban Institute). Premiums will rise by 75% for 20 million more enrolees (KFF).

  • The bill will add so much to the deficit it will trigger $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare (CBO)

• The bill will take food off the table for millions who rely on SNAP

  • 6 million people would be at risk of losing food assistance entirely. 11 million households, 1 in 4 people on SNAP, would be at risk of losing some benefits. (CBPP, 4/30)

  • An average SNAP households could lose more than $1200 a year (CAP, 5/5)

• The clean energy/IRA tax credit rollbacks will raise your energy bills and kill jobs

  • Household electric costs will rise by an average of $113 by 2026 (CAP, 5/5)

• The bill will explode the deficit

  • The CBO estimates the legislation will increase the debt by $2.3 trillion over the next 10 years.

    • This would be enough to trigger PAYGO rules that would automatically cut Medicare by almost $500 billion (CBO)

    • Penn Wharton estimates it would raise the debt by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years

• Navigator Research on Do’s and Don’ts of Talking About Medicaid and SNAP Cuts

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