📎 Federal Resource Round-Up

The House passed Trump’s budget agenda last week, and the megabill is now in the Senate. This bill will make the largest cuts to healthcare and food assistance in U.S. history to pay for tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. But we do have the power to reduce the harm of this deeply unpopular bill by taking action to raise our voices, share local impacts, and engage our communities. 

Our goal for these round-ups is to help you connect with key, timely information and resources from Local Progress and partners – and to help you focus on where local power can be effectively leveraged in this moment.

✂️ Push Back Against Devastating Cuts to Healthcare and Food Assistance | Uplift Local Impacts and Stories

Last Wednesday, the House passed the Trump Administration and corporation-backed budget bill: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The right-wing megabill would force working people to fund tax breaks for corporations and the ultra-wealthy–by gutting vital healthcare, food assistance, and clean energy programs.

What’s at stake: Just a few of the devastating effects on local communities include:

• Stripping health coverage from 15 million people by imposing Medicaid work requirements, adding red tape, and outright cuts to funding and tax credits that keep people insured. This would mark the largest loss of health coverage in U.S. history.
• Increasing hunger by putting 14 million Americans—including 4 million children—at risk of losing SNAP benefits.
• Raising child poverty by kicking 4.5 million children out of the child tax credit simply because their parents don’t have a Social Security Number.
• Fueling rising energy costs and climate change by rolling back clean energy tax credits that have driven historic boom in green infrastructure.
• Punishing states that use their own funds to insure undocumented immigrants by halting their Medicaid funding.

🏛️ What’s next?

The megabill is now in the Senate. Republican leaders are rushing to finalize it by July 4, ahead of the congressional recess, followed by another key deadline approaching July 24, the final day Congress is in session before August recess and a looming debt default.

Now is the time to act: The next few weeks are critical.  As Senate negotiations unfold, it’s essential that local leaders speak out against Billionaire Tax Scam and the harm it will inflict on our communities. Use our digital toolkit to:

• 🤝 Meet with your Members of Congress in person during upcoming congressional recesses (May 26–30, June30–July4).
• 🗞️ Talk with Local Media 
• 🪧 Plan a Local Action
• 📱Raise Your Voice Social Media  

For more resources:

• Community Change, Toolkit for state and local elected officials
• Groundwork Collaborative, 13 Ways Republicans Are Increasing Your Cost of Living
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, Unrig the Rules newsletter
• Coalition on Human Needs, Budget and Tax Toolkit
  
  

🛡️ Training Call: How To Use Your Office to Keep Families Together

As the Trump Administration ramps up mass deportations through disappearances, street-level policing, raids, and other tactics, local elected officials and community groups have mobilized together to meet this moment. Members across our network have fought to keep families together, and we are excited to share lessons from Chicago, where robust organizing and extensive know-your-rights training have helped keep communities safe. 

Join LP and the Mijente Support Committee next Thursday, June 5 at 12PM PT/ 2PM CT / 3PM ET for a training call exploring how local electeds can use their district offices to support deportation defense work. 

This virtual training is open to local elected officials and staff. The call will focus on using your office to:

Disseminate know-your-rights information (including how to determine whether a warrant is valid); and

Join an existing or help build a new rapid response network to respond to immigration enforcement.

Register for the call here.

📝 Share Your Story: How is the Trump Administration Impacting your Community?

Local Progress is rolling out a new tool to measure how the Trump Administration is impacting our communities. Our new storybank form is collecting on-the-ground accounts from local officials across the country to accurately map the impact of the federal government’s actions on local communities. These stories will help our network illustrate our people’s stories and strategize how to fight back against the Trump administration’s divisive agenda, as well as assist our press work in telling the story of our collective resistance. We’re interested in everything from how teachers may have been shut out from Head Start programs to proactive actions your legislative body has taken to affirm the rights of immigrants in your community. Check out the form here and don’t hesitate to reach out with questions!