Congress Must Pass a Clean Budget No Poison Pill Riders or Toxic Amendments
Every year, Congress must pass a set of spending bills to fund the services and safeguards that protect our families and communities. In recent years, lawmakers have tried to attach harmful policy riders to this legislation that would weaken, repeal, or block essential public protections. Most of these measures are special favors for big corporations and ideological extremists that have nothing to do with funding our government and could not become law on their own merits. Some of them attack women’s health, some fuel political corruption, some harm our environment, and much more.
Dozens of organizations have joined together to form the Clean Budget Coalition in opposition to poison pill appropriations riders and other toxic amendments to spending bills. We’re calling on lawmakers to pass clean spending bills by the Sept. 30, 2023 deadline that fully fund the programs and services that all of us count on.