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PAYGO means Budget bill slashes Medicare AND Medicaid. VOTE NO Text SIGN PJLWDA to 50409 — You must vote NO on the big budget bill. It will explode the deficit, cause harm --and even deaths (by loss of health care) -- to those you should be honored to serve. And it will down this while enriching yacht and palace owners. Why do yachts come before life? Because of the size of the deficits that this budget will incur and because of the PAYGO Act, those deficits would trigger sequestration of Medicare: to the total sum of over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare. You know that cuts in both Medicare and Medicaid will have the knock-on effect of causing health providers to close, especially in rural areas, because of lack of take-up for their services. Hence these cuts will especially devastate rural America. In voting for these cuts and deficits, you are voting for people to die. It has been estimated that these cuts will KILL 21,600 people per year. Furthermore, since neither SSA nor Medicare lie within the main budget and contribute nothing to deficits, this is unjust: it is outright theft of OUR money, not tax dollars but our life savings. In this letter I am not addressing the other toxic measures in the bill which foster executive overreach and hinder court and state agency: these provisions are an abomination to our democracy and democratic mechanisms. You work for us and you swore an oath to the constitution. This bill is a wicked and corrupt betrayal of your constituents, fiscal responsibility, our democratic system. It is a disgrace to Congress to be putting forward a 1000+ page bill to be discussed in the dead of night. Have you no decency? Have you no regard for how history will remember you? Vote NO and condemn this bill. https://resist.bot/petitions/PJLWDA