URGENT ALERT:  After agreeing to changes making the bill even more cruel, the House Rules Committee voted at 2:45 am to clear the MAGA tax bill.  The bill is scheduled for a full floor vote NOW - Thursday morning.

What they don’t want you to know is that the Republican tax bill will kick nearly 14 million people off their health care, mostly women and children, and takes food away from millions of Americans – all to give huge tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk.

There’s not a moment to lose in calling your Member of Congress. After the tax bill, or Budget Reconciliation Bill, passes out of the Rules Committee, House Speaker Mike Johnson intends for the entire House to take a vote on the bill before Memorial Day.

Dear John,

The MAGA Republicans are preparing to strip women of critical support. Quietly. Systematically. By the end of May.

The Budget Reconciliation Bill — an innocuous name for a cruel knife—is being framed as “all or nothing” legislation by the Republican-led Congress.  It’s a vehicle designed to pass the entire Trump agenda without needing Democratic votes.  It cannot be filibustered in the Senate, making it a high-stakes fast-moving process.

Behind closed doors, behind fuzzy language made to dull our senses, men in suits are slicing the spine from Medicaid and SNAP (food assistance). Two programs holding up the trembling architecture of care in America.  The outcome will affect  women’s lives. Children’s futures. Dignity in old age.

Trump and the MAGA spin doctors  say the aim of this bill is to impose fiscal discipline. But they lie.

Their goal is tax cuts.   $2 trillion in yet more gifts for the super-wealthy and corporations.  In exchange, they will rip the roof off the house and let the rain pour in on the rest of us.

It’s aimed at slashing funds for our mothers, grandmothers, aunts in nursing homes. Our children at the kitchen table, waiting for dinner or for their school lunch.  Women’s  bodies –pregnant, aging, ailing—needing medical care.

Here is what they won’t say out loud:

-> What Medicaid Really Is

 

Medicaid is not a luxury.  It’s not some spare layer of government fluff.  It’s the foundation of care for women and children in America.

 

Pregnant Women

  • Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the U.S.
  • It provides prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum support, and access to midwives and OB/GYNs.
  • Without it, pregnancy becomes more dangerous. Complications become more fatal.

Children

 

  • Over 40 million children depend on Medicaid.
  • That’s vaccines, vision screenings, asthma care, dental visits.
  • That’s treatment for chronic illness. That’s the difference between health and harm.

Women

  • Medicaid funds mammograms, Pap smears, cancer screenings—the essential, preventative care that saves lives.
  • For women juggling caregiving and work, it’s often the only coverage they have.
  • And when the system fails them, it’s Medicaid that catches them.

Older Women

  • 63% of nursing home residents rely on Medicaid.
  • Most are women. Women who raised children, paid taxes, worked until their backs bent. Most are alone. Women now called a burden. Most will not survive without it.
  • The average nursing home bill varies by state from: $3,000–$8,200/month.
  • Without Medicaid, that bill lands on the family or friends or the woman is kicked out of the nursing home.
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To email your member of Congress now!

Women are Awake.  Women are Alert.

We are the Majority!

 

Trump, Musk, and the Republican majority in Congress are attempting to stack the deck against women, kids and the elderly.  They’ve played their game in the dark telling lie after lie.

 

We are the majority.  And we will not back down.  Together we can expose and defeat them. 

 

Please make your call today.

Eleanor Smeal, President

Kathy Spillar, Executive Director

P.S.  As soon as we’ve dealt with the House on this horrific bill we’ll then turn to the Senate.  The House is working on a May 26 deadline.  The Senate’s schedule is a vote between the 4th of July and sometime in August before the Debt Ceiling Deadline arrives.  We’ll keep you posted. 

Right now, the most important step you can take is to contact your U.S. Representative.

 

Feminist Majority
1600 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22209
United States

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