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VFW Welcomes VHA Restructuring Initiatives
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 4 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., a veterans service organization, issued the following news release:
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VFW Welcomes VHA Restructuring Initiatives
Overhaul aims to unify veteran health care and end decades of inconsistency
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In December, VA Secretary Doug Collins and House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost signaled their alignment on reforming the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) structure, a decision for which VFW has long advocated.
With the current VHA comprising 18 Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), VFW representatives
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 4 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., a veterans service organization, issued the following news release:
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VFW Welcomes VHA Restructuring Initiatives
Overhaul aims to unify veteran health care and end decades of inconsistency
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In December, VA Secretary Doug Collins and House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost signaled their alignment on reforming the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) structure, a decision for which VFW has long advocated.
With the current VHA comprising 18 Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), VFW representativesbelieve the structure is flawed, often resulting in poor oversight, unequal and improper policy implementation and inconsistent outcomes for veterans.
"When the VISN structure was introduced in the 1990s, it was supposed to offer oversight and accountability to the VA health care system," VFW Washington Office Executive Director Ryan Gallucci said. "Unfortunately, what started as a modest quality control mechanism quickly ballooned into an unwieldy bureaucracy that numerous Inspector General reports show is where accountability often went to die. It is clear to the VFW that the current system of 18 networks -- numbered one through 23 -- is overdue for reform, and we thank Secretary Collins, Chairman Bost and the committee for moving to deliver consistent, integrated care across VA."
For years, VFW has voiced concerns about the shortcomings of the VHS structure, including three separate Congressional hearings last year.
The first of those came in January 2025, when a VFW employee highlighted her journey to access appropriate and timely mental health care, and how, in doing so, she experienced delays and roadblocks due to a VISN's misinterpretation of the 2018 MISSION Act. This led then-VFW Commander-in-Chief Al Lipphardt to point out the issue during VFW's annual legislative presentation to the joint House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees in March 2025.
Finally, in July 2025, another VFW employee spoke to the challenges of navigating maternity care in the community, as well as the roadblocks created by miscommunication and lax quality controls.
After hearing these personal anecdotes, VA announced in December the overhaul of its system of Community Care Networks (CCN), which enables veterans to receive care in the community when facing excessive wait times, when medical services are not available at VA, or when it is otherwise in their best medical interest. Currently, VA oversees five CCNs and plans to reduce that number to two, further eliminating bureaucratic barriers to veterans receiving the best care VA and its community care partners have to offer.
"The VFW has been consistent for more than a decade that community care is part of VA care -- yet since the earliest days of the Choice Program and now the MISSION Act, we have seen fits and starts with how VA gatekeeps community care referrals across the enterprise," Gallucci said. "We hope that as VA revamps its CCNs, we can achieve seamless integration of care, whether it is delivered through direct VA providers or VA's community partners -- once and for all burying the unrealistic boogeyman of privatization that has stymied modernization."
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This article is featured in the 2025 March/April issue of VFW magazine and was included in the Washington Wire section.
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Original text here: https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2026/4/vfw-welcomes-vha-restructuring-initiatives
[Category: National Defense]
Protect Our Care: Trump FY27 Budget Goes Nuclear Against Public Health Priorities to Finance Endless War, Perpetuate Billionaire Tax Giveaways
WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news:
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Trump FY27 Budget Goes Nuclear Against Public Health Priorities to Finance Endless War, Perpetuate Billionaire Tax Giveaways
It is immediately clear why Donald Trump quietly posted his FY2027 budget blueprint in a deep, dark corner of the White House website on Friday of Easter weekend: the act of a coward who does not want the public to know about the warped priorities within that seek to set public health back decades to pay for a deeply unpopular Iran war and maintain $1 trillion in wasteful tax breaks for billionaires
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WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news:
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Trump FY27 Budget Goes Nuclear Against Public Health Priorities to Finance Endless War, Perpetuate Billionaire Tax Giveaways
It is immediately clear why Donald Trump quietly posted his FY2027 budget blueprint in a deep, dark corner of the White House website on Friday of Easter weekend: the act of a coward who does not want the public to know about the warped priorities within that seek to set public health back decades to pay for a deeply unpopular Iran war and maintain $1 trillion in wasteful tax breaks for billionairesand big corporations. It's a budget that fully reflects Trump's chilling value statement this week: "It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. [...] We have to take care of one thing: military protection."
Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care's Public Health Project: "Donald Trump's budget plan is a roadmap to smashing virtually every public health safeguard and inviting deadly preventable diseases like measles to run wild. It's far too heavy a price to pay for endless war overseas and tax breaks for Trump's billionaire friends and corporate donors - and the economy will get sicker right along with millions of Americans. Trump's proposed cuts to the NIH alone will end up costing working people more than double that in lost economic activity, while the potential cost to our public health in lost scientific research and innovation is off the charts. With countless examples to choose from, 'America first' may be the biggest lie Donald Trump ever told."
Proposed Wrong Priority Increases:
* Staggering Nearly Half A Trillion Increase (44%) in Department of Defense Spending
* $10 Billion Increase for ICE
Proposed Harmful Cuts:
* Overall $15.4 Billion Cut (12.2% Cut to Discretionary Funding) to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, including:
* $5 Billion Cut (~10%) to the National Institutes of Health, jeopardizing thousands of research grants aimed at finding treatments and cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, infectious diseases and many other illnesses; NIH grants for medical research have been credited with delivering a more than 2.5-to-1 return on taxpayer investment, generating $94.58 billion in new economic activity in FY2024.
* Eliminates the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities within NIH
* $5 Billion in Cuts to Programs under Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH)
* $356 Million Cut (~10%) to HHS ASPR (responsible for pandemic preparedness, national stockpile, hospital preparedness program)
* $129 Million Cut (37%) to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
* 52% Cut to the Environmental Protection Agency
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Original text here: https://www.protectourcare.org/trump-fy27-budget-goes-nuclear-against-public-health-priorities-to-finance-endless-war-perpetuate-billionaire-tax-giveaways/
[Category: Health Care]
President's Budget Proposal Slashes National Park Service Funding Amid Ongoing Attacks on National Parks
WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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President's Budget Proposal Slashes National Park Service Funding Amid Ongoing Attacks on National Parks
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is once again raising concerns over a new round of devastating proposed budget cuts for our national parks. The Trump Administration today released its 2027 budget proposal, which like last year's, would gut the National Park Service, threatening the protection, maintenance and operation of more than 430 national parks
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WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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President's Budget Proposal Slashes National Park Service Funding Amid Ongoing Attacks on National Parks
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is once again raising concerns over a new round of devastating proposed budget cuts for our national parks. The Trump Administration today released its 2027 budget proposal, which like last year's, would gut the National Park Service, threatening the protection, maintenance and operation of more than 430 national parksnationwide. The proposal makes sweeping cuts across the Park Service budget, including a $736 million reduction (over 25%) to park operations, likely eliminating thousands more park staff after a year of severe losses.
The administration's plan to slash park funding comes as millions of people are flocking to national parks and planning their summer trips. The latest Park Service visitation report confirmed 26 parks set record attendance last year alone, highlighting just how much people cherish these places. Yet as demand and pressure on parks grow, funding and staffing continue to shrink. Since January 2025, the Park Service has lost nearly 25% of its workforce - over 4,000 staff - due to pressured resignations and early retirements and an ongoing barriers to hiring. This follows a 13% decline in park staff since 2011, even as visitation has risen 19%, topping 323 million visits in 2025. These cuts have already led to fewer ranger-led programs, weakened resource protection, delayed maintenance and diminished visitor experiences.
Alongside these cuts, the administration continues to recognize the importance of addressing deferred maintenance needs in our national parks by asking Congress to extend the Legacy Restoration Fund that was established by the Great American Outdoors Act but expired last year. Our national parks face more than $23 billion in needed repairs across the system. Addressing these needs is essential to ensure future generations can experience these places as we have. NPCA is encouraged that the budget proposal recognizes this reality.
A recent national poll (https://www.npca.org/resources/4301-nobody-wants-this-new-poll-finds-majority-of-americans-oppose-attacks-on) shows Americans are united on national parks. They want parks protected, funded and staffed. In fact, more than two-thirds of Americans reject the drastic cuts to park budgets this administration has pursued.
With Congress now set to review the proposal, NPCA and park advocates are calling on lawmakers to reject these harmful cuts and instead uphold their responsibility to protect our nation's public lands.
Specific National Park Service-related budget proposals include:
* Establishes a $10 billion "Presidential Capital Stewardship Program" within NPS to "coordinate, plan, and execute targeted, priority construction and beautification projects in and around Washington, D.C." Current budget documents don't clarify how much would address D.C.'s $1.5 billion deferred maintenance backlog, cover routine upkeep across NPS sites, or fund new construction. This $10 billion represents nearly half of the Park System's total deferred maintenance backlog, yet it's unclear why new construction is prioritized, especially without a plan for maintaining new infrastructure.
* Cuts the annual National Park Service Construction budget to less than $50 million, leaving it with 72% less funding to address repairs compared to 2025.
* Supports reauthorization of the Legacy Restoration Fund established by the Great American Outdoors Act to repair and reconstruct infrastructure in national parks and other federal public lands.
* Cuts $4.6 billion (52%) from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency responsible for enforcing vital laws like the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Slashing these programs would increase pollution, harm air and water quality in our national parks, and endanger the health of visitors and nearby communities.
* Cuts the National Heritage Area program by approximately 87%, undermining the bipartisan investment Congress just made to this critical program that supports community driven efforts to protect historic resources.
* Slashes funding for federal land acquisition projects under the Land and Water Conservation Fund, undermining bipartisan support to protect national parks from incompatible development.
* Slashes the Historic Preservation Fund by 95%, eliminating opportunities for communities and tribes to protect historically and culturally irreplaceable resources throughout the country.
Statement by John Garder, Senior Director of Budget and Appropriations for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA):
"A cut this massive would be catastrophic. After a year of deep staffing cuts, dwindling resources, and attacks on history and science, park staff are already at the brink. Park maintenance needs are growing, protections are eroding, and visitor experience is declining. This proposal would only accelerate the damage, putting our national parks at even greater risk and further cutting the park staff needed to care for our national treasures.
"At the same time, the administration appears to be prioritizing a vague set of new construction projects across Washington, DC, proposing $10 billion for this program alone, which is more than three times the annual budget of the National Park Service. We support efforts to modernize and repair park infrastructure but not when it's paired with massive cuts to Park Service operations.
"Communities across the country rely on national parks for jobs, education and cultural preservation. Investing in national parks is investing in America, which is why a majority of Americans across the political spectrum reject these kinds of cuts. They want parks protected, fully staffed, and accessible for future generations, not hollowed out by senseless budgets.
"As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, the administration is undermining the very places that safeguard our history and heritage. Congress must reject this terrible budget and instead stand up and act for our most treasured places, just as they did last year with strong bipartisan support for our parks. Our national parks are not political pawns. They are part of who we are, and they must be protected now and for generations to come."
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About the National Parks Conservation Association: Since 1919, the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) has been the leading voice in safeguarding our national parks. NPCA and its more than 1.9 million members and supporters work together to protect and preserve our nation's most iconic and inspirational places for future generations. For more information, visit www.npca.org.
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Original text here: https://www.npca.org/articles/11371-president-s-budget-proposal-slashes-national-park-service-funding-amid
[Category: Environment]
National WIC Association Denounces Trump's Proposed Cuts to WIC's Fruit and Vegetable Benefits
WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The National WIC Association, a non-profit advocacy voice of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children Program, issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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National WIC Association Denounces Trump's Proposed Cuts to WIC's Fruit and Vegetable Benefits
The Trump Administration's proposed budget for WIC would harm millions of American families who are most at risk for nutritional deficiencies. If enacted, these cuts would mean a significant reduction in monthly fruit and vegetable benefits, from $54 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers
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WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The National WIC Association, a non-profit advocacy voice of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children Program, issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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National WIC Association Denounces Trump's Proposed Cuts to WIC's Fruit and Vegetable Benefits
The Trump Administration's proposed budget for WIC would harm millions of American families who are most at risk for nutritional deficiencies. If enacted, these cuts would mean a significant reduction in monthly fruit and vegetable benefits, from $54 to $13 for breastfeeding mothersand from $27 to $10 for young children.
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On Friday morning, the White House released President Trump's budget request for fiscal year 2027 (FY27). The plan calls for deep cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), putting the health and food security of millions of low-income families at risk.
The following is a statement from Georgia Machell, president and CEO of the National WIC Association, on the President's Budget Request for FY27.
"We are stunned to see another attempt by the Trump administration to cut access to healthy foods through WIC. Just last year, the President proposed slashing WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits by nearly two-thirds. This budget makes that same damaging cut.
"Additionally, the funding proposed in this budget may not be sufficient to cover the food costs for all eligible participants, as food costs are expected to continue to rise due to tariffs, inflation, and the ongoing war in Iran. It will be important for Congress to continue to monitor food price projections as a final FY27 funding level for WIC is determined.
"These cuts break with the Trump Administration's support for WIC during the 2025 government shutdown and directly contradict the administration's stated goal to 'Make America Healthy Again.' WIC is a proven public health investment during the most critical developmental stages: pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood. By slashing the fruit and vegetable benefits and not ensuring sufficient program funding, this administration is taking healthy foods away from children and mothers most at risk for nutritional deficiencies. The proposed reductions would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to levels not seen since before the previous science-based increase in 2021, undermining a proven investment in child and maternal health. This plan is short-sighted, hypocritical, and, if passed by Congress, will harm American families.
"The science-based increase to WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits has led to meaningful improvements in how families eat. Young children now consume an additional 1/4 cup of fruits and vegetables per day, and parents report being better able to afford a healthier, more varied diet. The proposed cuts would reverse that progress, reducing benefits to levels that would meet just 19% of the recommended intake for children and 12% for breastfeeding mothers, short of what families need to support healthy growth and development.
"The proposed budget also fails to address the critical need for Congress to permanently authorize flexible services in WIC, ensuring that families can continue to access care virtually while still receiving in-person health assessments through WIC or a healthcare provider.
"The only bright spot in the proposal is the recommended $500 million boost to the WIC contingency fund, which would better position USDA to respond to future government shutdowns or other emergencies.
"We are grateful that Congress rejected these proposed cuts in the FY 2026 funding agreement, continuing its 30-year bipartisan history of fully funding WIC. We look forward to working with Congress again to ensure no benefit cuts, full funding for all eligible families seeking WIC services, and permanent access to flexible WIC services."
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Original text here: https://www.nwica.org/press-releases/national-wic-association-denounces-trumps-proposed-cuts-to-wics-fruit-and-vegetable-benefits
[Category: Sociological]
FFRF Action Fund: 'Theocratic' State Rep. Claims Faith is in Jesus While Dismissing Climate Change
MADISON, Wisconsin, April 4 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news on April 3, 2026:
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'Theocratic' state rep. claims faith is in Jesus while dismissing climate change
FFRF Action Fund's "Theocrat of the Week" is a Minnesota state legislator for her puerile remarks stating that her "faith is not in climate change" but in Jesus Christ.
During a recent House Capital Investment Committee hearing, Minnesota
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MADISON, Wisconsin, April 4 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news on April 3, 2026:
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'Theocratic' state rep. claims faith is in Jesus while dismissing climate change
FFRF Action Fund's "Theocrat of the Week" is a Minnesota state legislator for her puerile remarks stating that her "faith is not in climate change" but in Jesus Christ.
During a recent House Capital Investment Committee hearing, Minnesotastate Rep. Mary Franson argued that the Legislature does not need to protect the state's infrastructure from the threats of climate change because of her personal religious beliefs. Researchers from the University of Minnesota presented a report on "How Minnesota can better prepare its infrastructure for a changing climate" during a hearing last week. Franson co-chairs the committee.
"Members, the climate is always changing," Franson said after the researchers' presentation, seemingly trying to disprove climate change. "10,000 years ago, there were glaciers covering the state. And, if you don't know what a glacier is, it's a big block of ice. Lot of ice, right? Well, they're not here in this state anymore."
"When you talk about climate change, I don't get upset about it, I don't get worked up about it," Franson continued. "It's because my faith is not in climate change."
"It's not in scientists dictating what we should and should not do to save the environment. Because my faith is in Jesus Christ, right?" Franson concluded, "He's the same today, tomorrow and forever. Yesterday. And so, you know, if you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends. It's not with climate change. That's my closing speech."
Franson has a long history of disregarding conversations on the environment and the dangers of climate change. In 2024, Franson posted on X that climate change "is a scam pushed by commies." In 2012, she criticized the House chaplain for delivering an invocation that referenced Earth Day and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, calling Earth Day a "Pagan Holiday."
Minnesota state Rep. Jamie Long condemned Franson's remarks in a press release: "As legislators, we have a responsibility to future generations of Minnesotans, and that includes ensuring our roads, bridges, water infrastructure, and public buildings -- not to mention habitats, waterways and forests -- are all resistant to extreme weather events. For a co-chair of the committee charged with making these critical investments to turn a blind eye to this reality and undermine the critical planning necessary to protect our infrastructure is deeply concerning."
Personal belief in Jesus Christ does not protect the state against environmental disasters, and Franson's remarks had no place in a legislative hearing.
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FFRF Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization that develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church. It also advocates for the rights and views of nonbelievers, endorses candidates for political office, and publicizes the views of elected officials concerning religious liberty issues.
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Original text here: https://ffrfaction.org/theocratic-state-rep-claims-faith-is-in-jesus-while-dismissing-climate-change/
[Category: Sociological]
Common Cause: Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Trump Order on Mail in Ballots
NEW YORK, April 4 -- Common Cause - New York issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Trump Order on Mail in Ballots
Four of the nation's leading civil and voting rights groups, Common Cause, Black Voters Matter, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and NAACP are suing to stop President Trump's attempt to nationalize elections and prevent 48 million voters from casting a ballot with his latest executive order on mail in ballots.
The lawsuit was filed April 3 in federal court in Washington, D.C. This is one of the first legal attempts
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NEW YORK, April 4 -- Common Cause - New York issued the following news release on April 3, 2026:
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Trump Order on Mail in Ballots
Four of the nation's leading civil and voting rights groups, Common Cause, Black Voters Matter, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and NAACP are suing to stop President Trump's attempt to nationalize elections and prevent 48 million voters from casting a ballot with his latest executive order on mail in ballots.
The lawsuit was filed April 3 in federal court in Washington, D.C. This is one of the first legal attemptsto stop this executive order.
"Mail in voting is so safe that even the president uses it when he votes," said Virginia Kase Solomon, Common Cause President and CEO. "This is yet another attempt by President Trump to nationalize elections so he can pick and choose who gets to vote. Common Cause and our one million members firmly reject any president setting election law, especially as a last ditch effort to avoid being held accountable for his extremely unpopular agenda."
"This executive order targeting mail-in ballots is unlawful and usurps congressional authority in order to stop the midterm elections. This is another blatant attempt to undermine the people's power," said Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. "We're joining this lawsuit to stop this administration from silencing the voices of millions of Americans. Black Voters Matter will continue to fight for free, fair, and accessible elections."
Shaylyn Cochran, deputy executive director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, "The executive order is unlawful, unconstitutional, and a clear overreach of executive power. It reflects yet another dangerous attempt by this administration to erect obstacles to the ballot and to intimidate voters. If left to stand, the executive order would upend state laws and procedures on voting, tread on the Constitution, and threaten to shut out a significant number of Black voters from the political process. In filing today's lawsuit, we are standing up for the rule of law and standing by the Lawyers' Committee's founding commitment to making the promises of our democracy real."
"Americans in every corner of our country, rural and urban, Black and white, rich and poor, healthy and infirm, civilian and servicemember, have participated in mail-in voting for decades without issue," said Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO. "This executive order sows chaos and discourage voter participation in the midterm elections. The NAACP will continue to turn to the courts to ensure that everyone can have a voice in our elections."
The organizations are part of the largest nonpartisan election protection organization in the United States, 866-OUR-VOTE, a national hotline and text platform to help voters work through any voting issues.
Their participation in helping voters, and defending their members' right to vote, gives NAACP and Common Cause standing in fighting this executive order.
The lawsuit contends states and Congress set rules for elections, not presidents, and this executive order tying federal funding to election procedures is illegal.
In March 2025, President Donald Trump released an election-related executive order that Common Cause opposed. At least five different courts have struck down that executive order.
Common Cause is also currently fighting state-level anti-voter bills through legal battles in Florida and Indiana. Common Cause will continue to oppose any state-level legislation that threatens voting rights.
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Original text here: https://www.commoncause.org/press/civil-rights-groups-sue-to-stop-trump-order-on-mail-in-ballots/
[Category: Political]
Administration Budget Would Gut SBA, Small Business Support Programs
WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Small Business Majority issued the following statement on April 3, 2026:
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Administration Budget Would Gut SBA, Small Business Support Programs
Statement from Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer on the potentially devastating cuts to federal programs in the FY27 budget proposal
"The administration's FY 2027 budget request to Congress includes devastating cuts to critical small business infrastructure. Of most concern is that the budget calls for the U.S. Small Business Administration to receive a 67% reduction in funding from its current level, with
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WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Small Business Majority issued the following statement on April 3, 2026:
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Administration Budget Would Gut SBA, Small Business Support Programs
Statement from Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer on the potentially devastating cuts to federal programs in the FY27 budget proposal
"The administration's FY 2027 budget request to Congress includes devastating cuts to critical small business infrastructure. Of most concern is that the budget calls for the U.S. Small Business Administration to receive a 67% reduction in funding from its current level, withparticular requests to eliminate SCORE and almost every other program within the SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development, leaving only support for veterans business outreach and nothing more. If these cuts were enacted, it would effectively dismantle the one and only federal agency dedicated to serving the needs of Main Street. The administration's budget request also calls for steep cuts to or the complete elimination of other vital programs, including Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business Development Centers, the Minority Business Development Agency and the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. All of these programs have traditionally enjoyed strong bipartisan support because they have a strong track record of delivering great returns on investment. In fact, all generate more for the U.S. economy than they cost in taxpayer dollars.
Taken as a whole, the administration's FY27 budget request indicates a lack of understanding of the importance of programs and agencies that are essential to the success of small firms. If Congress were to embrace all or even some of the administration's requests, it would deal a fatal blow to countless small businesses already struggling with tariffs, high healthcare costs, workforce shortages due to immigration actions and broad economic uncertainty. We call on Congress to reject the administration's requests and to robustly fund all small businesses support programs so that America's entrepreneurs have a chance to grow and thrive."
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About Small Business Majority
Small Business Majority is a national small business organization that empowers America's diverse entrepreneurs to build a thriving and equitable economy. We engage our network of more than 85,000 small businesses and 1,500 business and community organizations to advocate for public policy solutions and deliver resources to entrepreneurs that promote equitable small business growth. Our deep connections with the small business community along with our scientific research enable us to educate the public about key issues impacting America's entrepreneurs, with a special focus on advancing the smallest businesses and those facing systemic inequalities. Learn more about us on our website and follow us on Twitter(X), Facebook and Instagram.
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Original text here: https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/administration-budget-would-gut-sba-small-business-support-programs
[Category: Business]
