{"id":18011,"date":"2025-06-06T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/?p=18011"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:02:44","slug":"fwd-fair-fridays-the-budget-is-everybodys-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/18011","title":{"rendered":"Fwd: Fair Fridays: The Budget is Everybody’s Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From: Info FBC<\/b> <info@fairbudget.org<\/a><\/a>><\/span>
Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 10:13\u202fAM
Subject: Fair Fridays: The Budget is Everybody's Business
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Fair Fridays<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A weekly newsletter summarizing the work we're doing, the campaigns we're working on, and actions you can take to support a\u00a0<\/span>Fair<\/span>\u00a0Budget!<\/span> <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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We always strive to keep you informed about the budget because the budget is everybody's business!<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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With our communities facing deep and dangerous cuts, it is important that we are all up-to-date on the scope of the cuts. While there are far more than what we are listing below, here are some of the most glaring examples of harm, with attention to our priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our main goal this season will be to reverse the Mayor\u2019s harmful cuts and trickle down economic policies. We\u2019ll push for new, progressive revenue raisers (taxes on the wealthiest residents and businesses) that transform a broken tax system that both deepens inequities and fails to raise the revenue we need to have an equitable budget. We center DC\u2019s Black and brown working-class and poor residents in all of our analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s budget proposal makes cuts to:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n