GreenLatinos, a national coalition of Latino environmental advocates, shares the following statement regarding the recent passage of the House Budget Reconciliation proposal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The House Budget reconciliation proposal will make life harder for Latino workers and families, all to extend tax cuts for billionaire donors and greedy corporations. By offsetting these tax breaks with deep cuts to our nation\u2019s most essential programs\u2014including social services and environmental protections\u2014this proposal puts all Americans, including Latino communities, at even greater risk of environmental and financial straits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"This budget framework threatens access to affordable health care like Medicaid, slashes critical nutrition assistance including SNAP benefits, undermines natural resource management, and diverts resources toward indiscriminate mass deportations\u2014policies that would inflict severe economic harm on the nation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says Mark Maga\u00f1a, GreenLatinos Founding President and CEO.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDevastating reductions in energy, agriculture, and environmental protections will hit Latino communities the hardest, particularly those already on the frontlines, making them more vulnerable to environmental hazards, more frequent and intense extreme weather, and heightened risks for those working in agriculture, conservation, and land stewardship.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Latino families already face disproportionate environmental and economic burdens. With 56% of Latinos in the United States living in areas that have experienced extreme weather events within the past year, coinciding with the Latino poverty rate (17.2%) higher than the national average (12.5%), these reckless budget cuts will only exacerbate those hardships by stripping popular and successful programs. Congress must reject this harmful proposal and prioritize investments that uplift all communities, rather than sacrificing working families for the benefit of the wealthy elite.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n ###<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acerca de GreenLatinos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n VerdeLatinos (NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong> es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestras batallas ambientales, de conservaci\u00f3n y de justicia clim\u00e1tica, y motivados para asegurar nuestras pol\u00edticas, Liberaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GreenLatinos, a national coalition of Latino environmental advocates, shares the following statement regarding the recent passage of the House Budget Reconciliation proposal. In response, GreenLatinos\u2019 Founding President & CEO, shares the following statement: The House Budget reconciliation proposal will make life harder for Latino workers and families, all to extend tax cuts for billionaire donors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[74,75],"federal_programs":[],"state_region":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-press-releases","tag-press-releases-spanish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"federal_programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/federal_programs?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"state_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_region?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In response, GreenLatinos\u2019 Founding President & CEO, shares the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n