FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2025

Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org

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Where are the Senators of Conscience, Principle, and Faith?

This proposal causes too much harm at too high a price for our communities. These proposals will result in injury. They do not reflect our faith values.

 

Washington, D.C. – Under the leadership of Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), the Senate is considering and moving forward its reply to the House on the matter of H.R.1, OBBB. Votes are expected to be imminent, first in the upper chamber and then in the lower chamber of Congress.

If signed into law, this Budget Reconciliation package would have profound impact for Americans across the nation. Any glimmers of good policy or innovative ideas are overshadowed by the robust harm and pervasive injury that the full package will render to the many on behalf of the few.

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Pablo DeJesús, Executive Director, UUSJ, stated: 

“The Senate reconciliation bill is a stark example of moral deficit and profound indifference to harm. It will cause an epoch of injury.

Senators of conscience, principle, and faith must vote no. They should show bravery and decline the efforts of some lawmakers to strip Medicaid, ACA, SNAP, and other basic needs support from average Americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and the billionaire few. They should reject the allocation of insurmountable debt to future generations. They should forsake ill-advised, economically foolish immigration enforcement that will tear families apart and detain parents–as well as children.

Budgets are moral documents, and Unitarian Universalists have profound concerns about this proposal. The Senate process has not been transparent or deliberative. The substance undermines service to taxpayers and the public, as well as our national and common good. The proposal documents a profound lack of compassion, care, or respect for human dignity.

The faithful vote is a NO VOTE.

We must also look to the House, and we pray, and we will advocate, that those Representatives of conscience, principle, and faith will VOTE NO.”