GreenLatinos, a national coalition of Latino environmental advocates, shares the following statement regarding the recent passage of the House Budget Reconciliation proposal.
In response, GreenLatinos’ CEO and founding president, shares the following statement:
The House Budget reconciliation proposal will make life harder for Latino workers and families, all to extend tax cuts for billionaire donors and greedy corporations. By offsetting these tax breaks with deep cuts to our nation’s most essential programs—including social services and environmental protections—this proposal puts all Americans, including Latino communities, at even greater risk of environmental and financial straits.
"This budget framework threatens access to affordable health care like Medicaid, slashes critical nutrition assistance including SNAP benefits, undermines natural resource management, and diverts resources toward indiscriminate mass deportations—policies that would inflict severe economic harm on the nation,” says Mark Magana, CEO and founding president of GreenLatinos.
“Devastating reductions in energy, agriculture, and environmental protections will hit Latino communities the hardest, particularly those already on the frontlines, making them more vulnerable to environmental hazards, more frequent and intense extreme weather, and heightened risks for those working in agriculture, conservation, and land stewardship.”
Latino families already face disproportionate environmental and economic burdens. With 56% of Latinos in the United States living in areas that have experienced extreme weather events within the past year, coinciding with the Latino poverty rate (17.2%) higher than the national average (12.5%), these reckless budget cuts will only exacerbate those hardships by stripping popular and successful programs. Congress must reject this harmful proposal and prioritize investments that uplift all communities, rather than sacrificing working families for the benefit of the wealthy elite.”
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About GreenLatinos
GreenLatinos (NOTE: GreenLatinos is ONE WORD) is an active comunidad of Latino/a/e leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation.