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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sponsored S.Con.Res. 7, the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution. Passage of a budget resolution sets in motion the legislative procedure needed to pass a budget reconciliation bill with only 50 votes in the Senate. This resolution would increase costs for working families through, among other impacts, higher energy bills by rescinding billions of dollars in funding for clean energy and energy efficiency. It would compromise the health of our communities by rolling back and cutting funding for critical environmental protections. It would enable cuts to programs meant to provide assistance to those who need it most, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and disaster unemployment assistance, as well as critical lifelines for millions of people like Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC. It proposes selling off our pristine public lands and waters to the oil and gas industry for drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite the fact that the most recent lease sale raised $0. It would further eliminate the penalty for fossil fuel companies that fail to reduce their dangerous methane pollution while cutting funds to monitor, enforce, protect and improve air and water quality, and it would direct hundreds of billions of dollars to turbocharge mass deportations, militarize the border, fund immigration raids in schools and other community spaces, and tear families apart. On February 21, the Senate approved S.Con.Res. 7 by a vote of 52-48 (Senate roll call vote 87). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The House took no action on this legislation.
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