Dear Congressman,

Dear Congressman, 

The provisions of this bill are concerning, to say the least. 

Medicaid and Medicare cuts will affect ALL of your constituents. There are entire neighborhoods full of elderly people who need Medicare to cover their health expenses. There are families who rely on Medicaid to cover their overly expensive, necessary healthcare. 

Stripping funding from Planned Parenthood will remove access to affordable cancer screenings, birth control, and other reproductive care. 

Cutting SNAP will cause millions of Americans to go with food or meals. Too many families cannot afford the groceries they need. Parents already opt to forego their own meals to make sure their children have food. 

Defunding the public education system is the largest step to privatizing education. Privatizing education strips the right to learn from every American. It sends the message that if you can’t afford to go to school, you don’t deserve to go to school. It sends the message that wealth equals intelligence, that wealth equals value, that wealth equals worth.

The worst part about this bill is that the irreparable damages this bill will cause is far more than I just described. There is only one word that can inch close accurately describing what this bill will do: Abhorrent. 

This bill will restrict education and hurt people’s livelihoods. We will lose brilliant minds and bright people because their lives are destroyed due to this bill. This bill cannot become law. We will lose Einsteins because they can’t afford to pay for university, if this bill becomes law. We will lose Newtons who died because they can’t afford to pay for cancer research or insulin, if this bill becomes law. We will lose Mozarts because they are slaving away at three minimum wage jobs to try to make it out of poverty, if this bill becomes law. We will lose Picassos because they are too busy drowning in debt from emergency hospital visits, if this bill becomes law. 

This bill will deepen the poverty level, increase the already enormous wealth inequality by stealing money from the working class, and drive up food insecurity. This is an abhorrently large transfer of wealth this country has seen in decades. If there’s going to be a transfer of wealth, it should be reversed. The greed of the ultra-wealthy must end. 

The sounding damage that cannot be undone is that this bill will cause deaths. People will die. American lives will be lost due to the greed of the wealthy one percent. 

They will not get over it. When children die because the nearest hospital went from thirty minutes away to one hour and thirty minutes away because rural hospitals can’t afford to stay open without Medicaid funding, they will not get over it. When children die because their parents cannot afford to pay for their insulin because their prescription went from fifty dollars to three hundred dollars because they can no longer afford Medicaid, they will not get over it. Americans will die because of this bill. They will not get over it. Whether American lives are lost because they can’t afford food, or because they can’t afford cancer screenings, or because they can’t afford medication, the only thing that will matter is that American lives were lost. American blood was shed.

Vote no, Congressman. The blood will be on your hands; they will be bright red and dripping as you use them to strangle the breath out of every American you promised to protect. As they count the seconds before life leaves their eyes, and as they breathe their last breath, they will not forget. I will not forget. Vote no, Congressman.

The blood will be on your hands as you stand along every other Congressperson who votes for this bill to worship your mighty green god. The love of money is the root of all evil, and this bill has been written in the fiery depths of hell. The love of money is the root of all evil, and voting for this bill is an act of greed. An act of hate. A true act of evil.

The blood will be on your hands as you place them at the feet of the president, kneeling with your forehead to the ground. Your hands will leave stains around the Capitol, marking the death of democracy. Vote no, congressman. 

When this is over, the damage has been done. Friends, neighbors, families, children. Their blood was shed. Their lives will be lost. When this is over, your bloodied hands will forever be stained. So, it better be you cleaning their bodies off the street and paying respects to their graves, with shame, guilt, and remorse in the heart that I hope you have. 

With every fiber of my being, I hope from every crevice of my heart that you vote no. But, remember Congressman, there are eyes on you. History has its eyes on you. I have my eyes on you. 

Sincerely,

United States of America