Corporations and the rich want Congress to cut healthcare funding to pay for tax cuts. Medicaid supports people from birth to retirement and beyond; it is essential to keeping hospitals open and supporting students at school. Cutting Medicaid will hurt individual patients and entire communities.
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It appears Musk has hacked into millions of Americans’ personal information and now has access to their taxes, Social Security, student debt and financial aid filings. Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency was not created by Congress—it is operating with zero transparency and in clear violation of federal law. This is outrageous, and it must be stopped. Click "start writing" below to Congress and the Trump administration to stop Musk from stealing our personal information.
Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the protected areas and sensitive locations memo allowing immigration enforcement actions in schools, college campuses, hospitals, and places of worship is causing concern among our members and broader community. Members of Congress—regardless of party—should urge President Trump to end this terrible anxiety and cruelty by reinstating the protection of schools, hospitals and churches against ICE.
The Trump administration froze all federal aid to communities then walked back their freeze for things like school breakfast and Medicaid because of the pushback from people like us. We need to remind everyone in Congress—Democrats and Republicans—that what happened is not OK. Not only is the new president violating the law by pausing funding that Congress already passed, he’s also hurting people in every corner of the country, including in red states.
At 6 a.m. on Jan. 10, nearly 5,000 caregivers at Providence Health & Services—including physicians, nurses, physician associates, nurse midwives and nurse practitioners—began an open-ended strike. These frontline caregivers are taking a stand against a corporation that puts profit over patient care. Sign the petition to demand that Providence negotiate fair contracts with the Oregon Nurses Association and the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association.