; Whereas White supremacist and far-right extremist groups have been recognized by the Federal Government as a predominant domestic security threat; Whereas every year we spend over $1,000,000,000,000 in endless wars, mass incarceration, policing, immigration, and border enforcement, none of which make us safer; Whereas billionaires have added more than 1,500,000,000,000 to their collective wealth over the past two years; Whereas these interlocking injustices are precipitating the deconstruction of our democracy and imposing unbearable costs to our economy, including that $1,000,000,000,000 is lost every year to the costs of child poverty, $1,900,000,000,000 of government revenue was lost by lowering the corporate tax rate in 2017, $8,000,000,000,000 has been lost in endless wars over the past two decades, the costs of the pandemic are estimated to be at least $16,000,000,000,000, and inaction on climate change threatens the loss of life itself; Whereas there was record turnout among the 85,000,000 poor and low-income eligible voters in the 2020 elections, who did not vote for a return to normal ; Whereas moral policy that prioritizes the 140,000,000 poor and low-income people can lift this Nation from the bottom up, rather than waiting for wealth to trickle down; Whereas social movements committed to the needs and demands of poor and low-income people, including the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice, have been calling for transformational change and putting forward a Third Reconstruction Agenda; and Whereas drawing on the history of the first Reconstruction after the Civil War and the second Reconstruction of the civil rights struggles in the 20th century, this moment demands a third Reconstruction to revive our political commitment to implement moral laws and policies that can heal and transform the Nation: Now, therefore, be it