NETWORK

Budget/Appropriations

NETWORK opposes H.Con.Res. 14, the Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. This resolution sets in motion a bill that, if passed, will significantly harm millions of hardworking people and families to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice opposed the FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND EXTENSIONS ACT, 2025. This bill made significant cuts to programs that help keep costs down in housing, healthcare, veterans services, seniors services, and more. This bill also shifted significant funding from human needs programs to fund the major expansion of family detention centers and private prisons to cage immigrant families. NETWORK strongly opposes H.R.1, the budget reconciliation bill, because it makes significant cuts to our nation's healthcare programs - MEDICAID and the Affordable Care Act - and food programs - the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - to pay for 4.5 trillion dollars of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and to fund the mass separation of families through detention and deportation. The bill also raises our nation's debt by 3.5 trillion dollars. NETWORK opposed House CR proposal because it did not address the need to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits for 24 million Americans before open enrollment, November 1. NETWORK Lobby urged a YES on H.R. 7148 H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which was signed into law on February 3, 2026, becoming Public Law No: 119-75. It provides full-year, bipartisan funding for several federal departments-including Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Transportation-for the remainder of FY2026.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

NETWORK Lobby opposes HR 2,the SAVE Act. This bill will limit the ability of citizens to vote by requiring burdensome new documentation to do so and by eliminating common sense channels of registration like online registration. NETWORK opposed H.R. 1's 10 year moratorium on the regulation of AI due to civil right and privacy concerns. NETWORK Lobby opposes HR 5296, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act which would federal bill that would fundamentally change how Americans register to vote. Voters would generally need to present documentary proof of citizenship in person before completing registration, effectively eliminating most current online and mail registration methods. For most people, that means only passport or certified birth certificate that matches a voter's current name. Real ID and other forms of identification would no suffice.