This week, Republicans are trying to work out the exact details of their plan to strip health care from millions of Americans and their kids.
On Sunday, House Republicans released the detailed text of their budget. Their plan includes $912 billion in cuts – mostly to Medicaid – to pay for TRILLIONS of dollars in tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the ultra-wealthy.
Trump is calling it the “BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL” – a more appropriate name would be the “BILLIONAIRE BENEFIT BILL.”
This bill is just another handout to the richest people and the largest corporations in our country. All while kicking kids and working families off their health care and exploding our national debt.1
It’s as bad of an idea as it sounds.
Let’s break down what these massive cuts to Medicaid and other crucial services would really mean:
13.7 million Americans will lose their health care.2 That’s more than twice the population of Colorado!
Rural health care providers in Colorado could shutter and force patients to drive hours for basic care.3
40,000 children will lose their child care and early education.4
It’s not just Democrats who are worried: even other Republicans have taken to the New York Times – the so-called bastion of the ‘fake news’ – to trash their own party’s plan.5
The reality is that Republicans have the majority in both the House and Senate. They could pass this bill without a single Democratic vote (I certainly won’t be voting for it!).
Yet, Republicans’ margins are paper thin. A handful of House Republicans are already being vocal against cuts to Medicaid.
Our job is to ratchet up the pressure on these vulnerable Republicans.
It's up to us to show folks how disastrous this bill will be for kids on Medicaid, for families who rely on SNAP, and for sick folks waiting for research breakthroughs to help them get better.
We’re forcing Republicans to go on the record6 when they vote against amendments and bills that protect Americans’ access to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. We’re using our microphone to make sure folks back home understand how the Republicans’ plan to slash Head Start and Meals on Wheels will hurt kids and their families.7
I’ve already voted against these disastrous cuts twice. And I’ll do it again when their final bill comes to the Senate floor.
While they’re ironing out the details in their plan to once again re-rig the system for the ultra-wealthy, we’ll keep raising hell and spreading the word on just how damaging this bill will be.
So please join us, record a video, talk to your neighbors, and organize your friends to help get the word out.