Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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One year of the Big, Ugly Bill

Health care gutted. Families going hungry. Billionaires cashing in. This November, we make them answer for it →
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Chuck Schumer

One year ago this month, friends, Republicans passed the Big, Ugly Bill, and called it beautiful.

It wasn't beautiful. It was a betrayal. They made the largest health care cuts in American history to hand more than a trillion dollars in tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. One year later, families across the country are paying the price.

This November, we make them answer for it, but only if we get the truth in front of voters now. Chip in today:

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Here's what one year of this law has actually done.

They gutted your health care. Fifteen million Americans are set to lose their coverage, and 5 million already have. Premiums have more than doubled for nearly 22 million families. More than a thousand hospitals and clinics are closing or on the brink, and rural communities are getting hit the hardest.

They took food off the table. More than 4 million people were kicked off food assistance, including over 800,000 children, and that's just in the thirteen states we have data for. In every single state, families lost help feeding their kids.

They drove up your costs. The average family is paying $213 more on utility bills since Trump took office, with rates up 16% nationally and climbing, thanks to Republicans' own energy cuts.

And they did it all to make the rich richer. The top 1% pocketed more than a trillion dollars in tax cuts, while the poorest Americans face a $2,000 tax hike and multimillionaires walk away with $300,000. It's the single largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history. A reverse Robin Hood.

They cut your health care to fund their donors' tax breaks and bet you wouldn't notice — or wouldn't remember by November.

We will fight to make sure every American remembers. But we can't get the truth in front of voters across six battleground states without you.

Chip in today and help us hold them accountable this fall:

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They called it beautiful. Let's make them answer for it.

Thank you,

Chuck Schumer






 

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The equivalent of eight Army battalions

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Win Without War

Pamela, you’ve likely read about this year’s July 4th celebrations here in DC: a sad state fair, a crumbling stage, and a late-night rambling speech. But if you’d been here, you would have also seen some of the 5,000 National Guard troops — the equivalent of eight Army battalions — that Trump has stationed in the capital.[1]

As an organization committed to peace, we refuse to see our communities militarized and troops weaponized against the people they’re sworn to protect. We haven’t forgotten about Trump’s domestic deployments, and we won’t stop speaking out or responding with our vision of a world where people live and thrive free from violence.

We aren’t powerless in the face of Trump’s authoritarian power grab. State governors still maintain control and command of these National Guard troops.

That means the same governors who have helped normalize soldiers on our streets also have the power to say “no more” by recalling their National Guard forces. But they aren’t likely to act without public pressure, which is why we’re sending a resounding message to ALL governors reminding them that troops don’t belong on our streets:

Tell the governors fueling Trump’s domestic deployments: Withdraw your National Guard and keep troops out of our communities!

ACT NOW

We’re not just seeing this in DC, Pamela. Trump continues to deploy the National Guard to multiple Democrat-led U.S. cities — at a cost of more than a billion dollars to taxpayers and over the opposition of local leaders. The benefits remain unclear, but the consequences can be deadly, as we just saw when National Guard soldiers stationed in Memphis, TN, shot and killed a man.[2] An investigation is ongoing, but one thing remains clear: we can’t accept armed soldiers on our streets.

National Guard troops from 24 states and territories currently make up Trump’s DC Joint Task Force. It even includes states like Michigan and Minnesota, whose governments have joined lawsuits against these very deployments.

That’s why Win Without War recently joined more than two dozen organizations in a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others demanding they withdraw their state’s National Guard troops from Trump’s task force. Less than a week later, Gov. Walz announced he’s bringing Minnesota’s troops home.

Now that we know this kind of pressure works, it’s time to make sure every governor understands the stakes, pulls their National Guard back, and stops Trump from deploying soldiers to our communities.

The moment is urgent: Right now, Trump continues to float invoking emergency powers to nationalize the midterm elections — and deployments like these set the stage for him to send troops to the polls in November.

Our voices can make a difference, Pamela. Governors don’t often hear a unified message thousands of activists strong. That’s why we need your help to make our demands known to EVERY governor with the ability to fuel Trump’s attempted takeover.

Tell governors across the country: NO troops on our streets!

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team


  1. The New York Times, "Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Washington Expands Ahead of Holiday"
  2. PBS, "National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say"
 
 
 

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