So far, Democrats in Congress -- including House Leader Hakeem Jeffries --
have held firm against Republican attempts to take away food and health
care from millions of Americans by imposing so-called "work requirements"
on vital programs.

But negotiations still continue. It's important that Democratic leaders
know the public is paying attention and wants them to hold firm.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to Democratic leaders: "We support standing strong
against Republican attempts to use our nation's debt limit to take away
food and health care from millions of families."

Yesterday, Hakeem Jeffries said, "So-called work requirements are a
nonstarter. In 2018, the last time we discussed the farm bill, 145
Republicans explicitly voted against an amendment that would impose
so-called work requirements on SNAP recipients, including then-House
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Voted against it. And so it's entirely
unreasonable to think that at this point in time, in the context of a debt
ceiling showdown that has been manufactured as part of an effort to avoid
a default, that these type of so-called work requirements can be imposed
on the American people when there are already significant work
requirements that exist under law."

A Democratic senator added that "the reality" is that "we’re talking about
children getting food stamps to survive on."

Families USA says that so-called work requirements on Medicaid "would not
help move low-income people out of poverty and may actually increase
poverty among many."

The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute says, "In late 2018,
Arkansas briefly implemented a Medicaid work requirement, resulting in
more than 18,000 people losing their health insurance... and didn’t
increase employment.

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against Republican attempts to use our nation's debt limit to take away
food and health care from millions of families."

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