Dear Jon,
We REALLY need your help here.
In just a
few days, the Senate will start deciding where and what to cut in this
year's budget. If these cuts go through, millions of the world's poorest are going
to be impacted.
This is a huge, critical moment for our movement—and
we really need your voice. The more names we can add to our petition, the harder
we'll be to ignore.
Will you sign and help us show that Americans don't
want to cut funding for the world's poor?
Click here to automatically add your name to our petition:
http://www.one.org/us/actnow/2011budget/o.pl?id=2162-3885993-IDv38Rx&t=1
Thanks,
Mike Henry
Senior Director, U.S. Campaigns, ONE
–—-Original Message——Dear Jon,
I’ve got some really bad news.
A few hours ago, the House voted to make huge cuts
in this year’s budget. Poverty-fighting, cost-effective programs—which make
up less than one percent of the US budget—were sharply cut. Some key programs
that fight AIDS, malaria and hunger were cut by 40%. Programs that promote long-term
economic growth were chopped up to 30%. We know Congress faces tough choices on the
budget, but these cuts fall hardest on the people who can least afford them.
Now it’s the Senate’s turn to weigh in on the budget—and
we’ve got to let them know that they must preserve this funding.
Cuts to these life-saving programs will have a real, immediate and devastating impact
on the world’s poor.
Urge the Senate to fix the House bill now:
http://www.one.org/us/actnow/2011budget/o.pl?id=2162-3885993-IDv38Rx&t=2
The petition reads:
Dear Senators,
Please do not
cut cost-effective, proven programs that fight HIV/AIDS, hunger and preventable disease
in this year's budget. These programs—which make up less than 1% of the budget—save
millions of lives, strengthen our national security, and help lift people out of
poverty for the long-term.
ONE members have been fighting hard to stop these House cuts.
Over the past few days, members have made thousands of calls to their representatives,
urging them not to cut these life-saving—and bipartisan—programs.
But the House ignored us and made cuts that will threaten
the health and survival of the world’s most vulnerable. As Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton wrote earlier this week, cuts of this size will be “devastating to our national
security, will render us unable to respond to unanticipated disasters and will damage
our leadership around the world.”
Now it’s the Senate’s turn to tackle the budget—and we have
to let them know that in this part of the budget, steep cuts could cost lives.
House cuts could mean:
- 3.7 million people won’t get tested for HIV this year
- 10.4 million bed nets won’t get to families to fight malaria
- 58,000
moms-to-be won’t receive the medicine to make sure their babies are born HIV-free
The
public is letting Congress know that it’s time to cut spending. That's why we must
have your voice, as a constituent and a ONE member, to make sure the Senate doesn’t
cut this small but vital part of the budget.
Sign our petition and we'll deliver it to
the Senate so they will hear us loud and clear.
http://www.one.org/us/actnow/2011budget/o.pl?id=2162-3885993-IDv38Rx&t=6
Thank you again for standing up for the world’s poor.
Sheila Nix
U.S. Executive Director, ONE
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