We’re on Capitol Hill today to tell Congress: we need care, not cuts! #SaveMedicaid
“While advocates are calling for more care, we’re here calling for no cuts to care.” Our @NJorwic explains why cuts and work requirements on #Medicaid are unacceptable! #SaveMedicaid
“When you’re talking about a cut that big, the first place it’ll hit are programs like home- and community-based services.” @NJorwic explains how the proposed debt ceiling bill will impact families like hers. We can’t afford to make cuts to aging and disability care services!
We should tax billionaires, NOT make cuts to care! 👏🏽 👏🏽 @4TaxFairness
“A functioning democracy invests in the very programs these extremists are trying to cut” - Mary Novak, @NETWORKLobby.
Naveed Shah from @commondefense explains how these cuts would impact veterans and their families. We all deserve care and cuts— care programs like Medicaid and SNAP are not options!
This is a default for America bill and it’s irresponsible and careless, says @rosadelauro! We can’t let them hold our care hostage in a fight over the debt ceiling. #CareNotCuts
“We have an opportunity to create a national movement.” @rosadelauro is right! We have to put on the pressure and tell our leaders: we won’t accept cuts to care!
“It would be the biggest cut to non-defense programs in this country’s history.” This bill is unacceptable, and we’ll continue to fight for care! 👏🏽@rosadelauro
“What we need is care not cuts, a moral budget. What Speaker McCarthy has put in front of the house is the opposite.” @Voice4HumanNeed
This bill is a bad deal for families and a good deal for the richest corporations, says @mboteach from @nwlc. “Woman and families are not political leverage for a manufactured crisis!” 👏🏽
Lauren Reliford from @Sojourners shares a powerful personal account about what this “war on the poor” is really about and why she’s calling for care not cuts. Work requirements for SNAP and programs like #Medicaid don’t work!
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TONIGHT, STARTING AT 9PM! 60 hours for 60 years of care 📢
Join us on the National Mall, alongside caregivers, older adults, disabled people, and advocates from across the country as we hold vigil to honor what’s been lost and demand better.
While Congress handed tax breaks to billionaires, they ripped away much-needed care from millions of families. It’s a betrayal, and we deserve better. And you know what? We won’t get over it, despite what Congressional leaders claim.
That’s why we’re taking action and showing up in grief, in rage, and in resistance for 60 hours. Because we’re more powerful together.
#BREAKING: This morning, the House passed massive cuts of nearly $800 billion to Medicaid and $500 billion to Medicare that will result in at least 14 million people losing health care coverage. 🧵
This budget proposal includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, threatening the health and well-being of every single one of our communities.
We deserve better!
Programs like Medicaid and Medicare are a promise we make to each other as a country that we will take care of each other from one generation to the next.
📢 JOIN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT MEDICAID ONLINE AND IN PERSON 📢
We’re not backing down in our fight to #ProtectMedicaid and this week we’re sharing two opportunities to join us—at home or in person in DC!
This WEDNESDAY, April 9th, we’re joining fellow care advocates and Senators for a “No Health Care Cuts. Period.” Medicaid Virtual Town Hall! senate.zoomgov.com/webinar/regist…
Beginning at 5PM ET/2PM PT, we’ll hear directly from lawmakers about the ongoing fight to defend Medicaid and the critical care services that millions rely on. We hope to see you virtually!
Rather than fulfilling campaign promises, this administration continues to target families in pursuit of a political agenda. Eliminating the Education Department is not only a bad decision – it’s also an intentional act of disruption, meant to keep the public confused and scared.
This move will have an outsized impact on disabled students and their families, since federal dollars fund one-third of all special education services in this country.
Attacks on federal agencies and programs designed to help our country’s children and disabled people will still continue unless Congress steps in and takes action to protect our families.
It’s time for another #GOPDebate! 📺 We’ll be watching the debate in Tuscaloosa tonight to see if they take on the crucial issue of care. Tune in or join us here to follow along! ⬇️
Debate is starting now! Here we go! Follow us along in this thread for our analysis and updates. ✍️
Care for trans people must be protected. The anti-transgender policies and legislation that @RonDeSantis is talking about cause real harm to the transgender community by threatening their basic human rights.
📺 We’re watching tonight’s Republican debate in Miami tonight to see if they take on the crucial issue of care. Tune into NBC at 8PM ET or join us here to follow along! ⬇️
Childcare costs in Florida are skyrocketing, close to $10k on average each year. That’s unacceptable! We need our elected leaders to take action and help working families access care. palmbeachpost.com/story/news/loc…