60+ Organizations Urge Senate to Vote No on Budget Bill that Would Raise Costs for Americans, Increase Transportation Pollution

60+ Organizations Urge Senate to Vote No on Budget Bill that Would Raise Costs for Americans, Increase Transportation Pollution

Today, dozens of environmental, consumer, labor, and community organizations representing millions of members sent a letter to the Senate urging lawmakers to vote no on Donald Trump’s dangerous so-called “One, Big Beautiful” reconciliation bill that will provide tax cuts for billionaires and corporate polluters while cutting clean energy jobs and abruptly getting rid of critical tax credits for transitioning to cleaner cars, trucks, and buses.Th…

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It

Authors:Jacob S. Hacker, Yale UniversityPatrick Sullivan, Yale University Abstract: Republicans in the Senate are currently considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, if enacted, would be the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades. How are Americans’ views of the bill affected by information about its regressive effects? We conducted a survey experiment assessing this question in early June 2025. Our co…