The First 100 Days Strategy & Action
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The First 100 Days Strategy & Action
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WATCH THE RECORDING & TAKE ACTION
The First 100 Days Strategy & Action Webinar

The Issues

NETWORK’s issue agenda is informed by Catholic Social Justice and the lived experience of real people.

Tax Justice

Win

Pressure from advocates and nonprofit groups pressured the White House to rescind the memo directing agencies to withhold disbursement of approved federal grant money. This funding freeze would have taken away food, health, and housing assistance that millions of our neighbors need to survive.

Current Reality

The bipartisan Child Tax Credit bill has stalled

Health Care

Win

The Biden Administration’s American Rescue Act significantly strengthened the expanded Medicaid coverage passed in 2014, and now 41 states have expanded Medicaid coverage.

Current Reality

The Farm Bill, which is stalled in Congress by GOP demands for large funding cuts, is needed now to provide needed food assistance to vulnerable persons and communities though Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), school lunches, senior meals, and support for food banks and soup kitchens. Another life-affirming policy stalled in Congress is the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, to invest in needed financial supports to reduce mortality risks and improve the health of new mothers and their babies.

Labor

Win

The Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 created 14 million new, good-paying union jobs, including 800,000 jobs in manufacturing and 210,000 in clean energy.

Current Reality

Wealthy corporations and the elected leaders they influence in Congress don’t want to pay workers a living wage, so they block efforts that would raise the minimum wage and protect workers’ freedom to join unions.

Immigration

Win
Wins will come. Check back in this space.

Current Reality

2025 policies present threats to established U.S. asylum law with the criminalization of immigrants and immigration and mass separation of immigrant families. And communities are burdened with devastating fear and hardships by the rescinding of the 'sensitive locations memo.'

Current federal leaders have authorized officers to use guns and boots in our sacred spaces, where the call of Jesus is carried out: feed the hungry, heal the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Previously, elected leaders respected the sanctity of places of worship, education, hospitals, etc.

Climate

Win

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest legislative effort yet to address climate change and increase US energy security included $738 billion for: renewable energy and grid energy storage, safe nuclear power, elective vehicle incentives, home energy efficiency upgrades, advanced green economy manufacturing and urban and rural racial environmental justice initiatives.

Current Reality

Coal, oil and gas are by far the largest contributor to global climate change but fossil fuel companies pose obstacles to progress with their access to huge revenues, profits, and tremendous political influence.

Wealthy oil companies have a track record of pushing disinformation campaigns and false or misleading climate solutions. Yet they receive billions of dollars in federal tax breaks and subsidies, at the expense of our ability to combat the climate crisis and invest in critical initiatives like education, housing, infrastructure and health care.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Let your member of Congress know they need to lift the $1,600 cap on refundability and adjust it for inflation to help hardworking families.

Take Action

WHAT YOU CAN DO

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

Read Ronnate Asirwatham's, Government Relations Director, analysis of the President's executive orders

Executive order analysis

WHAT YOU CAN DO

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We demand federal policies. That build an economy for all.

Whether we are nurses or farm workers, welders or coders, students or retirees, we are resilient and we take care of each other. When money is tight, we find a way to get by. But we deserve more than that. We are made in God’s image and we deserve to thrive, not just survive. 

Capitol

Build Power

and advocate for equitable federal policy

Action Alerts

Send an email (or call or post on social media) to Congress or the Administration.

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Write a Letter

Letters to the editor are an amazingly powerful advocacy tool

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What's Happening

News from NETWORK & across the nation.

Ways to Join Our Advocacy

Individual

Join us online for webinars and trainings, send messages to Congress, or come out to an in-person events. Justice seekers can join us for training workshops, write letters to the editor, go to lobby visits and more.

With a Friend

Do all you would do as an individual, but with the company of the people in your life. Amplify our actions when you engage in advocacy with a friend, family member, parishioner, etc.

As a Team

Members and supporters in certain cities, towns, and states may join a NETWORK Advocates Team. Teams hold regular meetings online or in-person, lobby Congress, and take more actions together with guidance from a NETWORK Grassroots Mobilization organizer.

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