Month: July 2025

Contact Your Federal Legislators TODAY to Oppose the Budget Reconciliation Bill

The U.S. Senate is poised to vote on a revised version of H.R. 1, the federal budget reconciliation bill, today or tomorrow. If the bill passes, it will move back to the House and be considered for final passage this week.

Please contact Pennsylvania’s U.S.  senators today and urge them to vote no. This bill will have a devastating impact on the health, education, and well-being of Pennsylvania’s schoolchildren. If the bill advances to the House, contact your U.S. representative — and Pennsylvania’s Republican members of the House.

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Suggested Call Script

Hello, my name is [your name], and I live in [your city/town], Pennsylvania. I’m urging you to vote no on the reconciliation bill because it would have a devastating impact on the health, education, and well-being of Pennsylvania’s schoolchildren.

  • Cuts to Medicaid will reduce access to school-based health services and services for children with disabilities.
  • Limiting SNAP eligibility will deny students access to free, healthy school meals and block some children from early childhood programs like Head Start.
  • Consolidating and cutting $4.5 billion in federal education programs will eliminate important funding for at-risk students, students experiencing homelessness, and migrant students. It will also cut funding for literacy programs, English language instruction, teacher training, arts education, and rural schools. Pennsylvania cannot make up for these shortfalls.
  • A national tax credit scholarship program, if included, would have the potential to divert billions annually from K–12 public schools to private schools.

Our children and our state cannot afford this. The bill will undermine opportunities for marginalized students who need the most support, limiting their futures and their lifelong success.

Please vote no and protect the health, education, and well-being of Pennsylvania’s children.