In case you missed it, late last week Congress passed a final budget reconciliation bill, which was then sent to President Trump for his signature.

The Republican majority in both the House and Senate just narrowly passed this big ugly bill, including more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and other health care programs in order to pay for tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.

But we didn’t go down without a fight. With your support, we spent the last few months aggressively fighting these cruel cuts to our care. Together, we:

• Organized two nationwide Days of Action with hundreds of participants at dozens of Congressional district offices
• Received dozens of earned media hits on local TV stations and in local newspapers in key Congressional districts, talking about these cuts to our care
• Delivered 60,000 petition signatures to Congress
• Held 126 petition delivery actions at Congressional district offices
• Generated 2,716 calls to House members and Senators through our hotlines
• Made 10,570 calls to Maine and North Carolina seniors asking them to call their legislators and oppose the cuts
• Met with dozens of legislators directly to discuss the impact of cuts to Medicaid, and what we know to be the real solution to our broken health care system, Medicare for All

We can’t thank you enough for these contributions. The votes would not have been this close without an outpouring of public pressure.

Let’s be clear: the implications of this bill will be horrific and far-reaching. It will steal money from safety-net community hospitals and reproductive health care clinics, like Planned Parenthood, kick millions of people off their health insurance, and effectively punish people for getting sick or injured, making us all less healthy and less secure.

Nurses across the United States believe it is likely to be remembered as one of history’s most harmful, least popular, and deadliest laws that steals from everyday people and overwhelmingly benefits billionaires.

But this fight isn’t over. Every politician who supported this legislation has blood on their hands and only themselves to blame when the impacts of these cuts devastate a health care system already in a near-constant state of crisis — and we intend to hold them accountable.

Nurses remain committed to the fight to expand, not limit, health care to all. As some of the country’s fiercest advocates for Medicare for All, National Nurses United will continue to fight for health care as a human right for all our patients.

Take a moment to read and share our press release responding to this bill’s passage with your networks today →

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We’ll be in touch with our plans and next steps in the days ahead.

In solidarity,

Nurses' Campaign to Win Medicare for All