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Vulnerable House Republicans are on the run after voting to advance massive cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, and stymying job creation across the country.  For the very few who have appeared in front of their constituents in a desperate attempt to defend their vote, they’ve been confronted with boos, frustration, and anger. For example:  In Colorado, Rep. […]

This week, Congresswoman Emilia Sykes joined community leaders and senior citizen advocates to raise awareness about what the GOP tax scam and its cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will mean for Northeast Ohio. This dangerous bill guts Medicaid, jeopardizes health care for 27,896 people in OH-13, and slashes SNAP benefits that 45,546 households in OH-13 depend on, all to […]

Last week, Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz cast her vote selling out Texas’s working families in exchange for giving tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country.  According to new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee, more than 50,000 people in Texas’s 15th Congressional District would lose their health insurance. Now, Monica De La Cruz refuses to […]

Last week, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez voted to protect vital programs that working families in Texas’s 34th Congressional District depend on, putting the needs of his constituents above tax cuts for billionaires.  While the House GOP rammed through their bill that would gut Medicaid for nearly 50,000 TX-34 residents, slash SNAP benefits for over 65,000 families in the district, and […]

The fake moderate is nothing more than a rubberstamp for his D.C. party bosses Mike Lawler just got caught doing what Washington politicians do best: voting one way and then telling voters the exact opposite. Last week, Lawler cast a deciding vote on his party’s “Big, Ugly Bill” — a massive tax giveaway to billionaires […]

Iowa farmer who depends on ACA tax credits calls out Hinson for voting  to end cost-saving credits Ashley Hinson continues to receive blowback for her deciding vote to slash Medicaid and end Affordable Care Act tax credits for families in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.  New reporting is highlighting a question from […]

Yesterday, Mariannette Miller-Meeks doubled down on her vote to slash Medicaid and jeopardize health care for the nearly 22,000 people across IA-01 who will lose their insurance coverage thanks to the GOP budget bill. Miller-Meeks said that “[Iowans] may lose coverage, but that’s their choice to lose coverage” – a callous lie as tens of thousands of […]

Wagner’s vote “was nothing less than the heartless betrayal of the most vulnerable of [her] constituents”   The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board blasted vulnerable Republican Ann Wagner on Thursday for casting the deciding vote “in cowardly, backstabbing fashion” to kick thousands of Missourians off their health care and food assistance to fund tax cuts for billionaires. The […]

On Medicaid:“We’re going to see collateral damage, thousands of job losses… hospital closures, nursing homes going bankrupt, an awful lot of pain for absolutely no benefit other than to the wealthiest Americans who would get yet another tax cut” – Harder Congressman Josh Harder spoke to Inside California Politics about the devastating impacts the GOP’s Tax Scam […]

Last week, Representatives Cory Mills, Anna Paulina Luna, and María Elvira Salazar cast the deciding votes to sell out Florida’s working families in exchange for giving tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country.  According to new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee: More than 33,000 people in Anna Paulina Luna’s district (FL-13) would lose their […]