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John,
It’s a solemn week with the U.S. COVID-19 death toll passing 100,000.
Republicans' lack of urgency is putting more people at risk every day―especially seniors in nursing homes who make up one-third of COVID deaths.
Call your Senators now and tell them to pass the HEROES Act―recently passed by the House―which prioritizes seniors in the COVID-19 response. Call 202-224-3121 now!
Suggested Call Script:
My name is __________. I live in TOWN, and I’m a constituent of the Senator’s.
I urge the Senator to pass the HEROES Act, recently passed by the House, which prioritizes aid to nursing homes and seniors.
Can you tell me the Senator’s position on those issues relating to the pandemic response?
Thank you.
After you call your Senators, chip in $7 to demand the GOP stop playing games with the pandemic response. COVID-19 doesn’t know red states vs. blue states. Republican Senators need to act now.
Thank you,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
--OUR MESSAGE YESTERDAY--
John,
Some time today, America will pass 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.
Of those 100,000 deaths, over 35,000 have been seniors in nursing homes.
Long-term care and nursing home facilities have lacked the necessary resources to protect their staff. And private equity-fueled, profit-driven budget cuts have turned nursing home workers into minimum wage workers―forcing employees to work in multiple facilities to make ends meet, and turning each infected employee into a vector for the disease.
The House of Representatives included four critical provisions to protect seniors in the HEROES Act. But Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell only have one proposal: To shield nursing homes and their investors from liability over creating the conditions that killed tens of thousands of seniors.
This is disgusting. We’re fighting back!
Social Security Works is stepping up our aggressive efforts to protect seniors from the Republican war on seniors. Chip in $7 today to force the Senate to protect seniors in nursing homes, not their billionaire owners!
Since this pandemic began, seniors have been under attack.
Trump’s favorite economic stimulus proposal has been to eliminate Social Security and Medicare’s dedicated funding―undermining their solvency and laying an election year trap for Democrats.
State-level Republicans have claimed that we should allow seniors to die to keep the stock market strong, ignoring warnings from public health officials AND economic experts who said that the economy wouldn’t continue to operate with thousands of Americans dying every day.
And Senator Mitt Romney is dusting off a plan to create fast-track commissions to bypass Congress and the American people and make cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The war on seniors is real. It’s up to us to make sure that none of these noxious GOP policies become law. Chip in $7 today to fight back!
The HEROES Act, passed by the House of Representatives would:
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Authorize $150 million for strike teams to help struggling nursing homes
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Mandate data about COVID-19 for transparency
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Prioritize testing for older Americans and people with disabilities
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Create COVID-19 only facilities
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell’s policies don’t protect seniors, but it does protect the corporations that are killing them. We’re fighting back!
Thanks,
Alex Lawson
Social Security Works
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