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AllOctober 3, 2025
NEW REPORT: Unrig Our Economy Unveils “People’s Jobs Report” Showing How Republicans in Congress Are Hurting the U.S. Economy During Their Shutdown and Beyond
Washington D.C — Due to the ongoing Republican-led government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) won’t be releasing its monthly jobs report tomorrow. With Republicans leaving Americans in the dark about the state of the economy, Unrig Our Economy is stepping in to fill the gap with our own “People’s Jobs Report.” Since Trump […]
October 1, 2025
Republicans in Congress Shut Down the Government, Refusing to Help Americans Afford Health Care
Washington D.C — Today, Republicans in Congress forced the federal government into a shutdown – all because they are refusing to protect Americans from higher health care costs under their billionaire-first agenda. Instead of working to extend the health care tax credits that help millions of American families afford coverage, or reversing their devastating Medicaid […]
September 29, 2025
Unrig Our Economy Launches New Ads Calling Out Congressional Republicans for Threatening to Raise Health Care Costs & Shut Down the Government
Washington D.C — Today, Unrig Our Economy is launching new ads calling out Republicans in Congress for raising Americans’ health care costs and threatening a government shutdown. The ad launch comes after Republicans in Congress repeatedly put the wants of billionaires over the needs of working families by cutting Medicaid, backing cost-raising tariffs, and giving […]
September 26, 2025
ICYMI: Op-Ed by Former CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Calls Out Trump and Congressional Republicans for Jacking Up Health Care Bills
Washington D.C — Today, an op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer by Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, former Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, highlights how Republicans’ cuts to health care will not only harm Medicaid beneficiaries, but are set to jack up the cost of health care for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and […]
September 24, 2025
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Extending Health Care Tax Credits. Republicans in Congress Refuse to Listen & Are Risking a Shutdown Instead.
Washington D.C — New polling from Impact Research shows that there is widespread support for extending vital health care tax credits, which Republicans in Congress allowed to expire in their tax law so that they could pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires. According to these latest data in the ten states and congressional districts […]
September 23, 2025
Rural Health Centers Are Already Closing Because Republicans in Congress Wanted to Give Billionaires More Tax Breaks
Washington D.C — Just two months after Republicans in Congress passed their pro-billionaire tax law, rural communities are already losing access to health care. Augusta Medical Group – a rural Virginia health care company – announced it is shuttering three clinics along Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, explicitly citing the Republican Tax Law’s devastating Medicaid cuts. […]
September 22, 2025
ICYMI: The Republican Tax Law Is Already Threatening Millions of Americans’ Health Care
Washington D.C — Since Republicans passed their pro-billionaire tax law this past summer, countless Republicans in Congress have danced around the fact that this law will rip away health care from nearly 15 million Americans over the course of the next decade. And the impact is not just in the future: The harm from this […]
September 22, 2025
House Republicans Advance Plan To Leave Millions With Higher Health Care Costs, Threatening Government Shutdown
Washington D.C — Today, House Republicans voted for a dirty funding bill that fails to reverse their disastrous cuts to Medicaid and allows vital health care tax credits to expire – raising health care costs, jeopardizing Americans’ access to health coverage for millions, and increasing the risk of a government shutdown. Republicans in Congress manufactured […]
September 18, 2025
Democrats Offer Plan to Save Americans’ Health Care. Republicans Would Rather Shut Down the Government.
Washington D.C — Last night, Democrats in Washington offered their own proposal to keep the government open while stopping increases in health insurance premiums for working-class families and reversing Republicans’ massive cuts to Medicaid. But, apparently, helping people afford their health care is a “nonstarter” for Republicans in Congress. They would rather shut down the […]