TAKE ACTION: Fight back against the reconciliation bill!

"As the Senate returns to work this week, the FFRF Action Fund is anticipating movement on the GOP's budget reconciliation bill. Unlike most Senate legislation, this bill only requires 51 votes to pass, and the bill carries a wide variety of awful motions straight out of Project 2025 designed to decimate state/church separation. Please take action today, and urge your lawmakers to vote against this extremist bill!

Included in this bill is a 100 percent, dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for donations to private school scholarship funds, largely benefitting the ultrawealthy. Unlike a standard charitable tax dedication, which reduces taxable income, this tax shelter allows the richest Americans — such as former education secretary and voucher proponent, Betsy DeVos — to vastly reduce their tax bills by donating stock to private, mostly religious school scholarships, avoiding capital gains tax and reducing their overall tax liability. The scholarship funds can legally exclude students based on religion, disability, LGBTQ-plus identity or academic ability. It's a backdoor voucher scheme prioritizing religious indoctrination over equitable, secular education, all while giving billionaires a tax break for dismantling public schools. 

The bill would also expand 529 education accounts to cover unregulated homeschooling and religious instruction. The 529 accounts were originally intended to make college education more affordable and had bipartisan support. Over time, Congress allowed 529 accounts to deviate from the original intention, now allowing them to pay for private and religious K–12 education and related expenses. This is a dedicated push by Christian nationalist groups promoting homeschooling as a vehicle to indoctrinate the next generation. Popular curricula like Abeka Academy and Bob Jones University Press openly teach revisionist religious history while newer options like Turning Point Academy and the Christendom Curriculum promote explicitly Christian nationalist worldviews…"

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