Posts in Healthcare
Tell your Members of Congress and President Biden: Support Medicare Expansion!

Urge your Members of Congress and Biden to include both Medicare expansion and making permanent the temporary health subsidies for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the American Family Plan (AFP) legislation.

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Demand that our MoCs convene remotely to provide immediate oversight against Trump's abuses

Our MoC’s cannot safely convene in Congress, but with Trump continuing his criminal activity, the business of oversight and legislation is more urgent than ever. Urge your MoC’s to enact remote voting to ensure the continuity of government.

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Demand that Governor Newsom to order the release of immigrant detainees

COVID-19 is a threat to prison populations, including ICE detainees, due to the poor conditions at prisons and detention centers. Governor Newsom has the discretion to order the detainees to be released back to their communities where they can safely shelter in place. Urge Governor Newsom to make this order.


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Tell your MoC's to fully fund the emergency response to the Coronavirus outbreak

Our MoC’s are preparing to pass a supplemental bill for the Corona virus emergency. Call them and tell them that they need to ensure that the supplemental funding bill stays clean, guarantees a strong public health response that gets everyone the treatment they need, and doesn’t exacerbate harm to vulnerable communities or our democracy.

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Ask your MoCs to #DefundHate!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.

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Defense, Militarism, Foreign Policy & the "Power of the Purse"

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.

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Ask your MoCs to wield the Power of the Purse!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.

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Thank your MoC's for Defending our Healthcare

Trump and the Republican leadership are proposing to slash healthcare spending while launching a legal attack aimed at completely eliminating Obamacare. Our four MoC are united in fierce opposition to this two-prong attack on our healthcare. We need to let them know they have our support so that they hold firm without compromise.

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