Take Action: National budget call in day.
Tuesday April 12th.

Call your Representatives and let them know that you don’t support a budget that harms low-income families!

Use this number to be connected to your Members of Congress through the U.S. Capitol switchboard:

800-247-2971 (toll free, U.S. Capitol switchboard)
Tuesday April 12th

The toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee which has launched a new budget campaign, www.saveourservices.org. When you call, don’t be discouraged if the lines are busy and please keep trying! You can also find your Senators’ direct lines at www.senate.gov, and your Representative's direct line at www.house.gov.

When You Speak to Your Member’s Office:

• Tell the person with whom you are speaking that you would like to leave a message for the Member of Congress.
• Ask the person to take your name, address, and phone number.
• Thank them for their time.

Tell Your Member of Congress:

• This is a bad budget. Members of Congress must not support a budget that makes deep cuts to or caps spending on programs like Medicaid, child care, food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit, veterans’ medical care, community development, education, and law enforcement programs. Cuts to these and other programs would reduce or eliminate services critical to millions of people across the country.
  
  
• These budget proposals reflect the wrong priorities. Our nation should be investing in programs that help all of us to afford the basic necessities, raise healthy children, get an education, and have a fair chance to make a decent life for ourselves and our families. Instead, Congress is developing a budget resolution that cuts billions from programs that serve children, working adults, veterans, and the elderly.
  
  
• This is the wrong way to reduce the deficit. When President Bush took office, he inherited a budget surplus of well over $200 billion. Today we have a record high deficit of $427 billion. The Bush administration has spent the bulk of federal funds not on programs that help all of us, but on the war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and pet programs such as the Medicare prescription drugs benefit. The domestic programs that are on the chopping block today represent less than 20 percent of the federal budget. Even cutting them ALL wouldn’t eliminate the budget deficit.