🚨 The radical attack against public transit 🚨

Protect abortion NOW Problems viewing this email? [View it in your browser]( [Center for American Progress]( InProgress from the Center for American Progress To make sure you never miss an email from us, please add progress@americanprogress.org to your contacts or safe senders list. Thanks for staying connected with us! The far right wants to defund public transit and increase costs for commuters [A G train arrives at a subway station in New York City as people wait on the platform, August 2022. ]( Photo credit: Getty/Gary Hershorn Last April, a far-right Washington, D.C., think tank released a radical plan for governing called [Project 2025](. This authoritarian playbook would undermine American democracy and is designed so that the next conservative administration can quickly usher in a sweeping set of radical far-right policies. And what is one of the radical proposals? The plan calls for totally eliminating all federal funding for local transit systems across the country. If implemented, what do these radical policies mean for everyday Americans? [A new article]( from the Center for American Progress breaks down the impacts: - A more costly and slower commute for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on public transit every day - Degradation of transportation infrastructure - Cuts to transportation services—fewer routes, longer wait times, more unexpected service outages Learn more about these dangerous policies: [More on Project 2025]( Protect abortion now This June marks the two-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which was only possible because of a new, far-right majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. Since then, anti-abortion state legislators have continued to attack access to abortion. Protecting this access is critical—but it is not enough to preserve the right to affordable, accessible abortion care. We must expand and strengthen reproductive health and family planning protections in states where abortion is legal. 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