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Families & The Federal Budget

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Tell Congress: Put families first!

July 17, 2025
On Saturday, July 26th, families in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, gatherings, and actions to say: Our families come first, and we will continue to come together, and rise for each other. Save the date so you can join us on July 26th in this mass...
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Community Care Starts With Us

October 31, 2025
We moms shouldn’t have to hold the nation together on empty. Yet here we are in the middle of a government shutdown that has thrown families into chaos. SNAP benefits are being cut; air traffic controllers, military school teachers, families in several states are losing child care as Head Start...
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Young girl looking at the camera. There is a pumpkin and an empty plate in front of her on the table. Text reads: Fund SNAP during the shutdown.

Tell Congress: Act Quickly to Keep SNAP (Food Stamps) Funded in November! 

October 31, 2025
“I’m a single stay at home mother of two children ages 2 years old and 5 months old. I am also disabled and unable to work to help provide for my children, such as food. We were told our November benefits are at risk, and I’m scared for my family. We receive WIC and SNAP benefits. We depend on both...
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From Groceries to Gas: How Trumpflation is Hitting Home and What You Can Do About It

October 16, 2025
You’re not imagining things when you look at prices and find yourself gasping out loud. Moms across the country are sounding the alarm — and MomsRising is turning that frustration into power.
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Wear YELLOW on October 18 for NO KINGS

October 16, 2025
Trump and Republicans in Congress have shut down the government instead of fixing the health care crisis they created—and we’re not staying quiet. On October 18th, hundreds of thousands of people across the country will come together to say NO KINGS! Will you join us? Here’s the latest update: We’...
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Trump’s Health Care Shutdown, Head Start, We Heart Portland, Gun Violence Prevention

October 6, 2025
On the radio show this week we dive into Trump’s Health Care Shutdown, with Republicans refusing to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that make health insurance affordable for millions of families. We also hear about Head Start, and what recent attacks, delayed grants, and reduced staff means...
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Health Care Over Shutdown

October 2, 2025
NEWS UPDATE! President Trump and Republicans in Congress just shut down the government as they continue to push a partisan spending bill that will cause Americans’ health care costs to soar. SIGN to tell Republican leaders in Congress: Reopen the government by passing a funding bill that reverses...
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Health Care Over Shutdown

October 2, 2025
NEWS UPDATE! President Trump and Republicans in Congress just shut down the government as they continue to push a partisan spending bill that will cause Americans’ health care costs to soar. SIGN to tell Republican leaders in Congress: Reopen the government by passing a funding bill that reverses...
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RFK Jr’s Vaccine Policy Changes–Unsound Science and Uncalled for Costs

September 23, 2025
Over the course of the last six months, I have watched and listened with bewilderment as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a vaccine skeptic, has made increasingly scientifically unsound statements and policy proposals. As a parent who looks to science for sound...
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Beacon Hub Leader Anna Knapp dropped off a MomsRising storybook at Rep Tony Wied’s office (WI-08).

Back-to-School Rewind: MomsRising Members Take Action in Their Districts to Defend Schools, Medicaid, SNAP, and More

September 22, 2025
Across the country, MomsRising gathered this summer to push back against the Trump administration and GOP-led Congress’s “Big Bad Budget Bill.”
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