July 2, 2025
At the present time, there is an ongoing open vote taking place in the House that calls the question of whether the body wants to move on to a full house vote on the Senate bill. Right now, there are 4 votes outstanding on the Republican side of the aisle and the rules say that the Speaker can hold a vote open indefinitely. This gives the Speaker (and President Trump) the time they clearly need to sway Republican holdouts who are likely refusing to vote ‘yes’ to move the House to a full house vote on the Senate bill. But the more important matter is whether they will also vote ‘yes’ once the bill is called. And that means lots of horse trading and pressure tactics. Remember: House Republican leaders won’t put the bill on the floor for a full house vote if they don’t think they have the votes, whether or not they meet the arbitrarily set July 4 deadline that is entirely unnecessary. Meanwhile, Senate Dems are holding Press Conferences, vigils, emergency rallies and they are standing with veterans and other stakeholder groups that are the most visible and that will likely get badly hurt with passage of the bill.
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Here’s the summary from the state pertaining to this morning’s Webinar looking at Senate Budget Reconciliation provisions and what they would mean for NYS in the area of healthcare.
 Governor Hochul’s Office of Constituency Affairs July 2nd, 2025Dear Lauri,Thank you for registering to attend the “Federal Reconciliation Health Briefing”. We appreciated the audience’s engagement and insightful questions. This session was overwhelmingly popular, and unfortunately we exceeded our webinar platform’s attendee limit. If you were not able to access the webinar, we apologize! You can view a full recording of the session here, passcode: f*e63XVJ Slides may be viewed here. For more information on the impact of the federal budget bills on New York State, please visit info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov/FederalBudgetImpact. Thank you for caring about this important issue and speaking out about the impact of this legislation. Any questions, please contact Governor Hochul’s Constituency Affairs team:Jacob Adler, jacob.adler@exec.ny.govEmily Kadar, emily.kadar@exec.ny.govShawn Ma, shawn.ma@exec.ny.gov |
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WHO LOBBIED ON MEGABILL NONPROFIT LANGUAGE: We’re learning more about who hired whom to lobby on the Republicans’ reconciliation bill as disclosures poured in following the end of the second quarter on Monday. (Lobbyists have 45 days to disclose new lobbying registrations, which explains the delay, though some of the latest disclosures have overshot that deadline.)
— Take, for example, ASAE — The Center for Association Leadership, the trade association for trade association executives. ASAE retained Saunders Global Diplomacy starting on April 1 to lobby on megabill provisions related to nonprofits’ tax-exempt status, according to a disclosure filed on Monday.
— An earlier version of the megabill would have granted the Treasury secretary new powers to revoke a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status if designated as a “terrorist supporting organization,” which the nonprofit sector adamantly opposed. The language was dropped before the House bill reached headed to the floor.
— Americans Against Government Censorship, a coalition of nonprofits including the AFL-CIO and liberal advocacy group Indivisible, hired Washington Council Ernst & Young in May to lobby on the same provision. And the Rockefeller Foundationbrought on Michael Best Strategies beginning in June to work on the reconciliation bill’s proposal to hit private foundations with a new excise tax on their assets, according to more disclosures filed this week.
| Senate Expected to Pass a Major Tax Package Directly Impacting Nonprofit Organizations (National Council for Nonprofits, June 30, 2025 – before Senate passed its bill) After months of debate and negotiations, the Senate is expected to vote today to approve the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a major tax package that directly impacts the nonprofit sector and its ability to serve communities nationwide. For more details, see NCN’s full analysis of the bill and updated chart of tax provisions.While the final bill includes both helpful and harmful provisions and is a marked improvement over earlier versions, it will ultimately reduce resources available to nonprofit organizations, negatively impacting their ability to provide essential services to their local communities. The bill creates a new universal charitable deduction that is estimated to generate approximately $74 billion over 10 years for nonprofit organizations. The bill also includes several provisions that disincentivize charitable giving by individuals and corporations, which are estimated to reduce resources for nonprofit organizations and their communities by at least $81 billion over 10 years. The bill also harms millions of people by taking away their access to healthcare and food assistance.Because the Senate revised the bill, it will need to receive another vote in the House of Representatives before it can head to the President’s desk for his signature and enactment. The House is expected to vote on the bill before the July 4th holiday.[Read more] |
| Tax Reconciliation Package ChartChart tracking the changes from the House version to the Senate version of the tax reconciliation package and its impact on charitable nonprofits.View resourceTax Reconciliation Package One-PagerUpdated brief resource summarizing the impacts of the tax reconciliation package on nonprofits and calls to action. View resourceTax Reconciliation Package Blog PostTimely blog post summarizing the Senate bill and current successes seen in advocacy work.View resource |