7/ Gov. budgets should respect, protect, and fulfill all human rights — not reward billionaires

But the fight is not over.

📞 Call your House reps
📝And use the form below to tell them
📢 #NotOnOurWatch

www.hrw.org/NotOnOurWatch

6/ Researchers 👇 estimated that this bill could cause 51,000+ excess deaths per year due to loss of care and services!

This isn’t “balancing the budget” — it’s weaponizing it

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

5/ But it doesn't stop there. 3+ million are set to lose food assistance through SNAP, while 10s of billions of $$ in public money goes to expanding abusive immigration detention, including for families

4/ 🏥 On health, cuts to Medicaid, CHIP and the ACA = 11.8 million people losing health insurance coverage!

Women, LGBTQ folks, rural and low-income people, and Black, Hispanic, and immigrant communities will be hit hard

3/ The most recent estimates from the @USCBO
found that the bill would cause:

– The Bottom 10% to lose ~$1,600/year
– The Top 10% to gain ~$12,000/year

That’s a – 4% hit for the poor, +2.3% gain for the rich!

It's inequality, turbocharged

2/ 💰 Massive tax cuts for the richest Americans and deep cuts to health care, food aid, and funding for programs necessary to protect the environment and our planet

It’s a massive transfer of wealth from public goods to private pockets

Gender-transformative tax systems that recognize care and channel resources into quality public services is a central demand for a just economic future. Organizing across movements is required to dismantle the mechanisms that protect corporate power, Jennifer Lipenga continues @iaffe.bsky.social

Jennifer talks about "feminist consciousness-raising" to draw out the links between climate crisis, austerity, debt & other injustices. Methodologies like storytelling, political education, movement building are essential to connect the dots. Reclaiming language by naming things as they are is key.

Mishy notes progress in cross-movement work across debt and climate, feminist economic justice etc - stating that we need to invest in producing more analysis & creating more space to imagine the future we want, as a basis for creating alternatives. @iaffe.bsky.social @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social

Turning to feminist alternatives, Dorcas shares examples from Malawi and the Young Urban Women program, building on point that resilience should not equal an acceptance of crisis conditions, but build responses that "work with women, not against them" @iaffe.bsky.social @actionaiduk.bsky.social

WEDO's Mwanahamisi Singano is the final speaker, joining from UNFCCC SBs to further draw out the links between care & climate, esp the way structural marginalization links to the undervaluing and increasing of the care women are forced to provide @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social @iaffe.bsky.social

Zoogah Dorcas from Ghana & Young Urban Women explains "When the climate shifts, it's not just the earth that it breaks - but women's lives and time," linking increasing poverty to disasters, climate to economic crisis. "Resilience is not enough - we need justice," Dorcas says. @iaffe.bsky.social

This moment isn’t just a test of our resilience. It’s a test of what we have understood as progress. If the foundations of rights & protections can be undone so easily, were they as strong as we believed?

🌟 Our job now is to assess, adapt & ensure that what we’re building is made to last.