On Tuesday, President Trump called on Congress to make passage of Budget Reconciliation 3.0 their top priority upon returning next week. By utilizing the budget reconciliation process, presidential priorities can be passed in both houses of Congress by a majority vote and thereby avoid a Democrat filibuster in the Senate.
CURE has been urging the White House and congressional leaders to pass Reconciliation 3.0 as soon as possible, so we were pleased to endorse President Trump’s call for Congress to prioritize Reconciliation 3.0 by sending a letter to every Republican House member and senator on Wednesday to emphasize CURE’s strong support for this legislative strategy.
The letter states, in part: “The legislation can be a vehicle for enhancing our military readiness, strengthening election integrity, combatting fraud and abuse, renewing the OBBBA/WFTC [One Big Beautiful Bill Act/Working Families Tax Cuts] ban on funding of large abortion providers, stopping federal funding for harmful gender transition procedures, and eliminating the egregious governor opt-in requirement for the SGO [Scholarship Granting Organization] tax credit.”
The governor opt-in requirement is an absurd obstacle to taxpayers in certain states receiving a federal tax credit that the Senate Parliamentarian insisted upon senators inserting into the OBBBA/WFTC bill in 2025 in order to prevent her from sustaining a Democrat procedural objection that could have killed the entire bill.
In her nationally syndicated column this week, CURE Founder Star Parker explains how the two largest teachers’ unions – the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – are pressuring Democrat governors to block the availability of the federal tax credit to residents in their states when they donate to an SGO in their home state.
Congress returns on July 13th for three weeks before breaking for August recess. CURE looks forward to helping President Trump and congressional Republicans move this vital legislation forward so that President Trump can sign it into law as soon as possible.
