The Leadership Conference Statement on the Passage of the Big Horrific Bill

By The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights| Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com

WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed President Trump’s domestic policy bill: 

“Every yes vote from Congress that passed this cruel and corrupt legislation doubles down on a dangerous agenda — an agenda that ends doctor visits for hardworking people and their families, that takes food from the mouths of children, and that callously cuts mental health support to students. What does it give us instead? More ICE raids on two-year-olds and high school students, on grandparents, and on workers. It gives us poorer schools and richer billionaires. It literally uses our tax dollars to drive inequality and the stripping away of civil rights, which this president promises with the stroke of his poisoned pen.

“The fight matters. We won the Senate’s removal of a ban on the ability of our state legislators to protect us from unaccountable artificial intelligence in a 99-1 vote. It was a small yet crucial win by a strong and steadfast civil rights coalition, congressional champions, and people who rose up and demanded guardrails, not giveaways.

“But make no mistake: This big, bad economy-busting bill is a bill that will hurt people in every community, of every race, and in far too many ways. Proponents can spin it any way they want, but people will suffer.

“We will not be silent. We will not back down. We will not forget the sources of the scandalous cuts that have helped to stabilize people’s lives in a country becoming too expensive for too many. We will make sure our communities are informed, empowered, and energized to keep rising up and marching on for an America that lives up to its ideals over the greed of the powerful few. We march on.”

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 240 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For more information on The Leadership Conference and its member organizations, visit www.civilrights.org.