Washington, D.C. — Unrig Our Economy launched two new ads in Nebraska and New Jersey, calling out Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) and Congressman Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07) for voting to rip health care from millions of Americans to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires despite both promising not to cut programs like Medicaid. The ads feature constituents of Congressmen Bacon and Kean Jr. and focus on the real-life harms that drastic cuts to Medicaid will have on their families and communities.
These ads come as Senate Republicans are now considering the Republican Tax Scam, a bill that would:
- Leave 16 million Americans without health insurance, including:
- Slash Medicaid by $800 billion — the largest cut in history
- Cut SNAP by nearly $300 billion, resulting in more than 2 million children seeing their families’ SNAP benefits cut or even terminated
- Lead to over 50,000 additional deaths per year
“Medicaid may not mean much to Congressmen Don Bacon and Tom Kean Jr., but it is everything to the millions of Americans who rely on it to keep their families healthy,” said Unrig Our Economy spokesperson Kobie Christian. “These new ads highlight that fact by featuring constituents of Congressmen Bacon and Kean Jr. who urge them to stand up for hardworking families instead of the ultra-wealthy who want another handout. Republicans in Congress should change course and fight for everyday Americans – not billionaires.”
You can watch the New Jersey ad here.
Ad Transcript:
I’m a life-long Republican.
You don’t know how important Medicaid is, until a member of your family is dependent on it.
I never expected to be in the position of having to worry about what happens to my mother-in-law if Medicaid ends.
She did everything right.
But she didn’t plan for Congressman Tom Kean Jr. to cut Medicaid.
He was the deciding vote to cut it.
Congressman Kean, stop voting to cut Medicaid.
You can listen to the Nebraska ad here.
Ad Transcript:
My name is Sonita.
Four years ago, I actually founded a nonprofit early learning center called Brighten Our Future.
And our mission is to provide affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care regardless of economic or social status. So we work really hard to help families.
And I see what people struggle with every day. I’m also working with families on Medicaid.
Congressman Don Bacon voted for the biggest cut to Medicaid in history to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Choosing to give billionaires tax breaks over giving your constituents’ health care should never even be a thought process or conversation that we’re having to have.
Thousands of people are going to lose their health care.
And these are already people that are struggling with paying for childcare, paying for health care, paying for everything.
Don Bacon is walking around North Omaha parades with the same people that he’s leaving behind.
Call Congressman Don Bacon at 402-938-0300 and tell him it’s not okay to take our health care away to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
To learn more about the campaign, visit UnrigOurEconomy.com or contact press@unrigoureconomy.com
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About Unrig Our Economy
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.