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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
Robin

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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.
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food!

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

10/31/25
“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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Jessica Burroughs
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration MomsRising Paid Family Leave Parenting & Families Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

Cuts to Special Education, Latina Equal Pay Day, Virginia Elections, ICE Terrifying Chicago

10/20/25
On the radio show this week we dive into cuts to special education, hearing directly from an educator about how these cuts impact students. We hear about Latina Equal Pay Day and the policies that would help close the wage gap, including paid family & medical leave, funding for child care, and...
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising Podcast Politics & Policy

Trump’s Health Care Shutdown, Head Start, We Heart Portland, Gun Violence Prevention

10/06/25
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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Premature baby.
Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsRising Parenting & Families

RFK Jr’s Vaccine Policy Changes–Unsound Science and Uncalled for Costs

09/23/25
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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Jean Nguyen
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising Parenting & Families Podcast Politics & Policy Reproductive Justice

Free To Be, Saving WIC, #Trumpflation, GOP Burning Down Reproductive Health Care

09/22/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into Dr. Jack Turban’s new book Free To Be and how to bust the myths and disinformation about the trans community. We hear about what is happening with the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program WIC and how you can help make sure that does not sunset. We...
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Beacon Hub Leader Anna Knapp dropped off a MomsRising storybook at Rep Tony Wied’s office (WI-08).
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising Parenting & Families Politics & Policy

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

09/22/25
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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Tell Congress to reject cuts to SNAP (Food Stamps)!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45988/?source=action">Tell Congress to reject cuts to SNAP (Food Stamps)!</a>

Tell Congress to reject the cuts to SNAP (food stamps) benefits that hardworking families rely on to put food on the table!

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SIGN NOW to Protect SNAP!

SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45024/?source=action">SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!</a>

SIGN our letter calling on Republican leadership, along with every member of the U.S. Congress, to prioritize families over billionaires—no tax cuts for billionaires and corporations paid for by cuts to our health care, nutrition, education, and childcare.

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Tell Congress: choose families over billionaires!

SIGN NOW: Tell Congress -> NO CUTS to Schools!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/34007/?source=action">SIGN NOW: Tell Congress -> NO CUTS to Schools!</a>

This is not a drill. A bill in the Republican-led U.S. House Appropriations Committee would cut federal funding for Title I schools by 80%!?!

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SIGN NOW: Tell Congress -> NO CUTS to Schools!

Tell Congress: Build a Care Infrastructure ASAP

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/17448/?source=action">Tell Congress: Build a Care Infrastructure ASAP</a>

Congress is FINALLY poised to take much-needed action on childcare, paid leave, taxes, living wages and more; but we need to send in as many signatures as possible to help make sure that these policies don’t get pushed aside and overlooked as the final national recovery and infrastructure legislation is being crafted this week and in the weeks to come.

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Tell Congress: Build a Care Infrastructure ASAP