STATE LAWMAKERS MUST PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FROM THE FEDERAL BUDGET SCAM

New Yorkers can’t wait any longer

New York – UPDATE: As of August 12, 2025, 63 organizations and campaigns across New York signed on to the following statement:

On July 30th, over 45 organizations and campaigns across New York released the following statement:

“New York is under attack from a Trump administration hellbent on making us sicker, hungrier, and less safe, all while making millionaires and billionaires even richer with unfair tax breaks. The Federal Budget Scam will make life harder: hospitals will close, health insurance premiums and utility bills will skyrocket, and public benefits — which we all contribute to — will be inaccessible to those who need them. 

“State lawmakers must protect our communities by convening a special session to: 

• Fund our healthcare system and ensure New York is affordable for everyone by making the super-wealthy pay their fair share of taxes; and 

• Keep New Yorkers safe by passing the New York for All and Dignity Not Detention Acts. 

New Yorkers can't wait any longer for lawmakers to fight back.”

Signatories:

Invest in Our New York

Adelante Student Voices

Alliance for Quality Education

Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

Black Diaspora Liberty Initiative Inc. (BDLI)

Broadway Community, Inc

Brotherhood Sister Sol

Capital District DSA

Capital District DSA

CCoHOPE Indivisible

Children's Defense Fund - NY

Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)

Citizen Action of New York

Citizens' Committee for Children of New York

CNY Solidarity Coalition

Coalition for Asian American Children and Families

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement

Community Voices Heard

Dignity in Schools Campaign - New York

Downtown Women for Change

Education Council Consortium

EduColor

Elders & Allies to Free the People Rochester

Empire State Indivisible

Envision Freedom Fund

First United Methodist Church of Schenectady

For the Many

Fridays For Future NYC

Greater NYC for Change

Health Care for America Now -- New York State Network

Housing Works, Inc.

Indivisible Brooklyn

Indivisible Rochester

Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice

Literacy Assistance Center

Make the Road NY

Mekong NYC

Metro New York Health Care for All

Muslim Community Network

New York State Council of Churches

New York Working Families Party

New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools (RJPS)

NYC-DSA

NYS Labor-Religion Coalition

Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)

Restorative Justice Initiative

Rise and Resist

Rochester City Council Progressive Caucus

Rochester Spinal Association

Rotterdam Community Center

Saratoga Immigration Coalition

Strong Economy For All Coalition

Suffolk Progressives

Sunrise NYC

SURJ NYC

Target Majority NYC

The Circle Keepers

The New York Doctors Coalition

The People's Plan NYC

Upper West Side Action Group

Urban Youth Collaborative

VOCAL-NY

Westchester Citizen Therapists Indivisible

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights