WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, hundreds of workers, community members, and advocates from across the country descended on Washington to join Fair Share America to call on their elected representatives to oppose gutting vital programs such as Medicaid and SNAP to give millionaires and billionaires another massive tax break. Instead of listening to them, House Republicans put their heads down, pretended that math wasn’t real, voted to protect cost-raising tariffs, and advanced a plan that sets up drastic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will hurt the very constituents that came to visit them.
However, the fight to oppose Republicans’ pro-billionaire agenda is just getting started, and Americans are seeing through the persistent lies from Republicans in Congress. Now, as Congress goes on recess, working people across the country will continue to make their voices heard loud and clear: they want their representatives to put families over billionaires.
Here are some of the highlights of how everyday Americans rose up to fight back against the Republican pro-billionaire agenda:
Reuters: House Republicans Advance Tax Reform Blueprint as Dems Rally Against Trump Plans
- The event served to “demand that Congress stand with working families instead of billionaires and big corporations,” according to a press release. Participants opposed President Trump’s tax policy agenda, chiefly his promised extensions to TCJA provisions benefiting the wealthy at the expense of cuts to other federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Virginia Dogwood: Virginia health care advocates join Capitol Hill rally against Republican spending cuts
- Virginians joined hundreds of people to rally outside the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday to protest congressional Republicans’ plan to cut off access to health care and groceries for millions of low-income Americans.
WWMT: Michiganders, lawmakers rally in D.C. against tax breaks for billionaires, corporations
- Advocates, workers, and community members, were sending a message: no more tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, especially not at the expense of hardworking families, event organizers said.
Wisconsin Examiner: As U.S. House GOP adopts budget, protesters rally against Medicaid reductions, tax cuts
- Hundreds demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday, urging congressional Republicans to rethink cutting programs vital to millions of Americans as a way to help extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
WVIT Hartford-New Haven: Hundreds Rally Outside of US Capitol w/ Sen Ron Wyden and Fair Share America
- As lawmakers voted on a budget blueprint in Congress today, hundreds of people from across the country rallied outside the US Capitol. The coalition Fair Share America organized today’s protest to oppose tax breaks for billionaires and large corporations.
- Protesters fear this [budget resolution] will lead to cuts for low income programs, including Medicaid and SNAP.
Arizona Daily Star: Letter: What is Juan Ciscomani doing for Arizona?
- The cuts to Medicaid will devastate lives, and the cuts to Social Security will ruin the financial stability of many others. So what is Juan Ciscomani doing about it? From a concerned citizen who wants the best for the world and country.
- People from nine localities, including Moseley, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Fairfax, Portsmouth, and Richmond, visited the offices of 10 members of the commonwealth’s congressional delegation. Virginians shared their personal stories of how Medicaid and SNAP have ensured that they have access to food and health care.
KNTV San Francisco: Rally in DC to Oppose Budget Framework that Cuts Services to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires
- The House passed a budget blueprint today to enact trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy, as well as hundreds of billion dollars to expand the military. …Outside the Capitol, labor unions, home health care workers and Democratic lawmakers protested the planned cuts to life saving benefits like Medicaid and SNAP.
Iowa Capital Dispatch: As U.S. House GOP adopts budget, protesters rally against Medicaid reductions, tax cuts
- The advocates, who flew and bused in from 30 states to rally and meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, say the cuts would be devastating for low-income Americans who rely on government health care, nutrition and early education programs, among other benefits.
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Unrig Our Economy is a national campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. We know that when the middle class does well, all of us do well — which is why we’re fighting on behalf of working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.