Large Coalition Calls for State and Local Aid

Abstract

Signers write Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer to prioritize a proven solution to help overwhelmed front-line workers, jumpstart the economy and accelerate the pace of vaccinations: the passage of $1 trillion in emergency funding for states, cities, towns and schools. We need $1 trillion in funding – unrestricted funding, free of any poison pills, conditions or limitations that undermine working people and an increase in the federal Medicaid match (FMAP) – not just to get back to normal, but to build back better. We need this level of investment to restore our communities’ ability to handle crises and respond to emergencies, capacity that has been vastly diminished since the austerity measures imposed during the Great Recession about a dozen years ago.