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Republicans want to default on our families!

The federal budget campaign champions the priorities of women, moms, and families in the federal budget. This campaign includes work on taxes/revenues, SNAP, WIC, Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid, CHIP, healthy school lunches, and more.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Story time: The fall of Roe v Wade did not silence us. It activated us.

11/15/22
Why is abortion critical for moms? America’s moms were faced with the unthinkable reality when the U.S. Supreme Court relegated our autonomy to the states, making our ability to access the reproductive health care we needed almost impossible. Everything changed for every woman, every family, and...
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Diarra Aida Diouf
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising

Agenda mamás por la libertad: una visión para ayudar a nuestra nación

05/16/23
Valoramos nuestras libertades. La libertad de estar con nuestros hijos y familias cuando más nos necesitan, de escoger lo que es mejor para nuestras familias, de enviar a nuestros hijos a escuelas en las que cada niño sienta que pertenece y donde pueda prosperar y la libertad de tener igualdad...
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Linda Stone
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En este Día de la Madre queremos más que caramelos y flores, ¡queremos libertad!

05/12/23
El Día de la Madre es un GRAN día... un día de celebración, de amor, de recuerdo, de flores y tal vez de un poco de baile mientras reímos, nos abrazamos, lloramos y posiblemente incluso nos enojemos... y también un día en el que cada una de nosotras juntas podemos tomar alguna acción rápida,...
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Xochitl Oseguera
Families & The Federal Budget

TAKE ACTION to stop the GOP from defaulting on our families!

05/11/23
Breaking news! We are an estimated 22 days away from the GOP-created debt ceiling crisis becoming a world-wide problem. [1] If Congress doesn’t take immediate action to raise the debt ceiling, like Trump did three times on his watch [2], we will– for the first time in history – default, leading to...
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Elyssa Schmier
Families & The Federal Budget

Republicans want to default on our families!

04/25/23
This is not a drill! Republicans in Congress are manufacturing a MAJOR crisis and putting the health, education, and well-being of our families and economy on the line. Republicans are burying it in wonky language like “debt ceiling” and “deficit.” But we won’t be fooled! The reality is Speaker...
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Elyssa Schmier
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Quick signature: No barriers for food and health care!

04/21/23
Everyone should have access to food and health care. Period. But Republican leadership in Congress is demanding deep cuts to programs that would leave millions hungry and uninsured, and threatening to default on our national debt unless they get what they want: Cuts to programs that families and...
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SIGN NOW! Republicans want to default on our families!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/31211/?source=action">SIGN NOW! Republicans want to default on our families!</a>

Republicans want to default on our economy and families! This is not a drill!! Watch our video explaining the debt ceiling and sign our letter now!

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Republicans want to default on our families!

Tell Congress: QUICK SIGNATURE: Help Grow Dual Language Programs in your community!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/31433/?source=action">Tell Congress: QUICK SIGNATURE: Help Grow Dual Language Programs in your community!</a>

Please add your name to show your support for the funding and integration of dual language programs and language support in early learning programs (like child care and pre-k) and K-12.

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Tell Congress: QUICK SIGNATURE: Help Grow Dual Language Programs in your community!

SIGN NOW to speak out against the GOP’s tax policies!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/29046/?source=action">SIGN NOW to speak out against the GOP’s tax policies!</a>

House Republicans want to hit us again where it hurts: right in our wallets! They’ve proposed a 30% federal sales tax that would give the wealthy a huge tax cut, raise taxes on working families, and threaten programs like child care, healthcare, and Social Security. SIGN NOW saying “no” to the GOP’s 30% federal sales tax proposal!

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SIGN NOW! Say ‘no” to the GOP’s new tax proposal!

SIGN NOW: Strengthen SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/29377/?source=action">SIGN NOW: Strengthen SNAP!</a>

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps), one of our strongest tools in fighting hunger, is under attack. Join us in speaking out to protect SNAP & the millions of families that rely on this program to feed their families!

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Sign MomsRising’s petition to strengthen SNAP!

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