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Price Confirmation ‘Puts Our Nation’s Health Care System at Risk’

February 10, 2017
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families
“In another cynical, partisan vote, the U.S. Senate last night confirmed Rep. Tom Price to serve as the nation’s next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) – putting our country’s health care system at risk. This confirmation will exacerbate the deep anxiety that moms and caregivers around the country have about whether their families will be able to get the health coverage and care they need.
 
“It is abundantly clear that Price is the wrong choice for this post. He supports the callous, irresponsible repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which imperils the health insurance that 30 million people, including four million children, rely on. Repealing the ACA also will force people with pre-existing conditions into an expensive and unnecessary fight for their lives, which will hurt families, our economy and our country. 
 
“Price supports replacing the ACA with measures that would gut access to health insurance and make it harder for people to get the essential health services they need. His record also includes shameful votes to cut funding for Medicaid, which covers vital health services for millions of low-income children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, and the elderly, including seven in ten residents of nursing homes. While during his confirmation hearings, Price offered few details about his plans, those he did offer, like block-granting Medicaid, would lead to fewer low-income people and people with serious health problems being able to access the care they need.
 
“Also deeply disturbing are the ethical lapses that have surfaced about Price, who used his powerful role in Congress to line his own pockets. It is stunning that a majority of U.S. Senators were willing to confirm a nominee with such serious ethical problems.
 
“The country needs an HHS Secretary who has demonstrated a real commitment to improving the health of all families. Confirming Tom Price was a terrible mistake.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader Praises Maryland House of Delegates Vote to Override Governor Hogan’s Veto of Paid Sick Days Bill

January 11, 2018
Paid Sick Days, Workplace Justice

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Ruth Martin, Vice President, Workplace Justice Campaigns of MomsRising.org, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 30,000 Maryland members and more than 1 million mothers and their families across the country, on the Maryland House of Delegates vote to override Gov. Hogan’s veto of HB1
“The Maryland House of Delegates voted today to overturn Governor Larry Hogan’s ill-conceived, outrageous veto of HB1, bringing the state one step closer to enacting earned sick leave law that will benefit families, workers, and the state’s economy.
 
“The Healthy Working Families Act, which both houses of the state legislature passed last year, will bring financial stability and peace of mind to hundreds of thousands of Maryland families. Right now, more than 700,000 working people across the state do not have earned sick leave they can use to care for themselves or their children when they get sick. This means working Marylanders often must make impossible choices between going to work sick – or sending a sick child to school – and forfeiting a much-needed paycheck. As is often the case, people of color, and particularly moms of color, are hit hardest by the state’s failure to ensure that all workers can earn paid sick days.
 
“Simply put, Marylanders need earned sick leave, and they need it now. It’s past time for this bill to become law.
 
“For the last few years, MomsRising members and their children have visited state legislators in superhero capes, urging representatives to use their legislative superpowers to vote for earned sick days. We have also been a proud member of the Working Matters Coalition, which has fought tirelessly to enact this law for five years. It’s thanks to the coalition’s leadership that we are now on the cusp of seeing earned sick days become law. We thank every delegate who voted in favor of HB1, and urge State Senators to follow the House’s lead and finally make paid sick days a reality for Maryland workers.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

President Trump’s Gun Proposal ‘Deeply Disappointing, Will Not Keep Our Children Safe’

March 12, 2018
Gun Control

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising.org, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, issued the following statement on President Trump’s recent announcement on gun policy
“President Trump’s announcement yesterday on gun policy is deeply disappointing. Improving background checks on gun buyers is imperative but the administration’s plan is woefully inadequate. His announcement also marked a retreat from his earlier support of raising the age limit for buying semi-automatic assault rifles with high capacity magazines like the one used in the Parkland massacre, and came with a misguided, dangerous proposal to train and arm teachers. This will not keep our children safe; in fact, it will put them in greater danger.
 
“The administration’s proposal doesn’t include the most basic, common-sense reforms that studies show would actually help to reduce gun violence. It won’t expand background checks to cover all commercial gun sales, including at gun shows and on the internet. It won’t stop the open and relatively easy sale of military-style assault semi-automatic weapons with high capacity magazines. The entire proposal is a shameful kowtow to the National Rifle Association (NRA).
 
“ It also must be said: The President’s plan to arm teachers is simply ridiculous. It will make our children less safe and disproportionately hurt children of color, who studies show are already the victims of discriminatory school discipline policies. Schools are already experiencing gun violence at a shocking rate – the shooting at Parkland was the sixth school shooting where children have been harmed this year; in fact, since the shooting at Columbine high school in April 1999, more than 150,000 primary or secondary school students have experienced a shooting on campus. The last thing we need are more guns in classrooms.
 
“Our nation is losing over 30,000 lives a year due to guns. Our children are living in constant fear, and our government is doing nothing to protect them. We need strong, principled leadership on this issue, not lip service. It’s time for Congress and the administration to take a stand, oppose the NRA’s radical agenda, and implement measures that will effectively reduce gun violence.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader: Cutting Children’s Health Insurance Program Would Be ‘Reckless and Irresponsible’

May 9, 2018
Federal Budget

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, on the Trump administration’s proposal to cut $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program:

“The Trump administration proposal to cut $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is ill-advised and reckless. If Congress agrees to this irresponsible cut, children and families across our country will suffer.
 
“CHIP is state administered, and it allows children in low- and middle-income families to get the check-ups, doctor visits and screenings they need to get and stay healthy. The bipartisan agreement to reauthorize the program for 10 years was designed to stabilize it, protect coverage for children, and allow states to strengthen their CHIP programs. This cut would violate that hard-fought budget agreement and it would put access to health insurance in jeopardy for vulnerable children and families.
 
“This administration seems to think deals are made to be broken, children’s health is unimportant, and the needs of families with low and middle incomes simply do not matter. America’s moms wholeheartedly disagree. Congress and the Trump administration prioritized huge tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and corporations in their tax bill last year, and now they want to cut spending by denying children health coverage. It is simply unacceptable.
 
“Congress must reject the Trump administration’s proposed cut to CHIP immediately. We must not reduce federal spending by denying children health coverage and care.”

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

With a Stroke of the Pen … Gov. Baker Brings Paid Family and Medical Leave to Massachusetts

June 28, 2018
Workplace Justice, Paid Family & Medical Leave

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families nationwide, and nearly 30,000 in Massachusetts, on Gov. Baker’s decision to sign a paid family and medical leave program into law.

"Massachusetts MomsRising members thank and commend Governor Charlie Baker for signing into law the paid family and medical leave bill the state legislature passed last week. The comprehensive paid leave program will take effect next year with workers being able to utilize benefits beginning in 2021. Massachusetts workers will have access to 12 weeks of job-protected family leave and 20 weeks of job-protected medical leave, with wage replacement of up to $850 per week. The program is funded by both workers and employers and its definition of ‘family’ includes spouses, domestic partners, children, parents, parents-in-law, in loco parentis, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings. It will help take strain off business as well as families and strengthen the state’s economy.

 “MomsRising members in Massachusetts worked hard to make this victory possible, sharing personal stories, reaching out to their legislators by phone and email, joining regional meetings, and participating in lobby days on Beacon Hill – all to advance paid leave for Massachusetts families. We helped create critical bipartisan MOMentum that led to this victory!

“Passage of this bill also builds momentum for the national legislation our country needs. We are the only industrialized nation without this key policy in place, even though just 15 percent of U.S. workers have access to paid leave through their employers and many working people cannot afford to use the unpaid leave the Family and Medical Leave Act offers. In addition to continuing progress in the states, we need a national standard – one that is accessible, affordable and inclusive. Ultimately, we need Congress to pass the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, which would create a social insurance fund that benefits all workers in this country.

“We need Congress to follow Massachusetts’ lead!”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader: Disaster Relief Funds Must Be Used for Disaster Relief, Not to Support Trump’s Immoral War on Immigrants and Refugees

September 12, 2018
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on reports the Trump administration diverted badly needed disaster relief funds from FEMA’s (the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s) budget to support ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

“At a time when millions of people are racing to evacuate their homes and communities as one of the most dangerous hurricanes our country has seen in decades approaches, it is shocking to learn that the Trump administration diverted $10 million that Congress designated for disaster relief and used it to support ICE’s disgraceful war on immigrants and asylum-seekers.

“Despite the ludicrous lies President Trump told yesterday, it is abundantly clear that FEMA’s response to last year’s hurricane in Puerto Rico was grossly inadequate and compounded the tragedy and shocking loss of life from Hurricane Maria. Even today, hundreds of thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico and in Texas, where Hurricane Harvey struck, are still suffering and struggling mightily. They need every penny of funding designated for FEMA to support their recovery. So, too, will those in the Carolinas and Virginia who are fleeing for their lives right now.

“It adds insult to injury that the Trump administration used these funds to support its disgraceful, deeply unpopular, immoral war on immigrants and refugees, during which ICE intentionally tore terrified children away from their parents, violated basic human rights and common decency, and caused grave harm to the health and well-being of vulnerable asylum-seekers, as well as to our nation’s standing in the world. This President and this administration seem to have no moral compass at all. Congress must step in.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader: ‘As Our Hearts Break, We Resolve Not to Stand Silently By as Hate and Violence Rise’

October 27, 2018
Gun Control

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg today and near the First Baptist Church in Kentucky earlier this week::

“We are horrified and saddened by the shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue this morning in Pennsylvania and near the First Baptist Church in Kentucky earlier this week. Everyone in our nation should be safe in their place of worship, their home, their workplace and their community. Full stop.

“We commit to not standing silently by as antisemitism rises; to speak out against racial violence, gender-based violence, Islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia and misogyny; to work to stop the spread of hate of every kind; and to keep marching for justice.

“Hate crimes and hate speech are rising in our nation – and lives are being lost, communities are being harmed, and our democracy is being damaged. The Washington Post reports: 'Hate crimes motivated by hatred of a religion increased last year, with a rise in the number of crimes targeting Jews and Muslims. Of the incidents spurred by hatred of a particular religion, anti-Semitism was again the leading cause, motivating about 55 percent of those episodes, followed by anti-Muslim sentiment, which spurred about 25 percent. The number of hate crimes targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people also went up last year.’

“Hate is particularly deadly in a country where there are more firearms in civilian hands than there are people. We must turn this around, work tirelessly to stamp out hate, and reject all rhetoric and actions that inflame our public discourse.

“As our hearts break, we resolve not to stand silently by as hate and violence rise.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

'Congress Is Finally Treating Maternal Mortality as the National Emergency It Is,' Moms Leader Says, Urging President Trump to Quickly Sign Bill Into Law

December 13, 2018
Maternal Health, Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement of Monifa Bandele, senior vice president of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on congressional passage of legislation designed to prevent maternal deaths.

“Just one day after the House of Representatives passed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, the U.S. Senate today passed the companion bill, the Maternal Health Accountability Act. We are thrilled to see Congress prioritizing the health and lives of pregnant women and treating maternal mortality as the national emergency that it is.

“Every year in this country, 700 - 900 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes, and some 65,000 suffer severe complications. Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women, independent of age, parity or education. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 60 percent of maternal deaths in this country are preventable.

“Clearly, we need solutions and this legislation will have a profound impact. It will establish a program to help states review maternal deaths; establish and sustain a maternal mortality review committee; support a plan to educate health care providers to improve maternal care; and improve information collection on maternal deaths and provide for public disclosure of this information. It offers hope for addressing the factors that lead to the deaths of so many Black mothers and the stubborn racial disparities that continue to plague our health care system.

“This legislation had bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. President Trump should waste no time in signing it into law. Moms are dying every day in this country. There is no time to waste.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader: Millions Will Suffer Because the U.S. Senate Failed to Stand Up to President Trump Today

January 24, 2019
Federal Budget, Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass legislation that would re-open the federal government today:

“We are deeply disappointed that the U.S. Senate failed to re-open the federal government this afternoon. The U.S. House of Representatives has done its job by passing bills to end the shutdown, but the Senate let the country down by failing to do the same. Voters will not soon forget this vote, and the pain and suffering it causes families and our economy.

“The Senate had two bills before it: one that would reopen the government while negotiations could take place and another that would continue the parade of harmful anti-immigrant policies President Trump and his Senate allies support. Both failed. As a result, some 800,000 federal workers remain furloughed or working without pay. The longest government shutdown in American history will now continue, thanks to President Trump’s intransigence, his outrageous demand that taxpayers pay for his wasteful, destructive border wall, and the willingness of too many Republican senators to put politics ahead of the well-being of America’s families.

“For weeks, MomsRising has been hearing from moms across the country who are suffering due to the shutdown. Their desperation is growing by the day. With money for essential food, housing and other vital services about to run out, their struggles are going to become even more dire. Families are going to have to make even tougher decisions with every paycheck they miss.

“Americans do not share the racist, anti-immigrant agenda and repugnant values that drive President Trump and his Senate supporters. We reject the lies President Trump tells and do not want billions of our tax dollars to be wasted on his vanity wall. We see how shuttering the government over a manufactured crisis at the border has created an actual, escalating crisis for hard-working families across the country. We know President Trump caused grave harm to DREAMers and TPS (Temporary Protected Status) recipients, and that providing them with a temporary, limited respite is not an acceptable exchange for a wasteful border wall the country neither wants nor needs.

“MomsRising will deliver stories from our members to senators on Tuesday and pass on their demand that Congress refuse to squander our tax dollars by bowing to the President’s blackmail. America’s moms want Congress to reopen the government now, provide all workers with their pay, adopt comprehensive immigration reform, and ensure that every immigrant and every asylum-seeker will be treated with compassion, dignity and respect.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

Statement

Moms Leader Commends House for Rejecting President Trump’s Bogus National Emergency, Urges Senate to Do the Same

February 26, 2019
Federal Budget, Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on today’s House of Representatives vote to terminate President Trump’s bogus declaration of a national emergency:

“The House of Representatives did what was right today by rejecting President Trump’s disgraceful, politically motivated, utterly bogus declaration of a national emergency. We strongly urge the U.S. Senate to do the same. Manufacturing a national emergency in order to build a wall the country neither wants, nor needs, is despicable – a gross violation of the President’s powers and a dangerous threat to the checks and balances our Constitution guarantees. 

“We thank the House leaders and every representative from either party who stood up for what is right. We demand that the full Congress reject President Trump’s reckless use of emergency powers. He must not be allowed to waste our tax dollars and undermine our democracy.

“The moms of America want Congress to stand up to this President, who is taking dangerous steps towards authoritarianism by undermining the power of Congress. The House of Representatives did that today and moms, dads, children, and country itself will be much better off if the Senate follows suit and Congress overrides any veto that may result.

“Congress simply must regain and retain its power to make funding decisions and reject Trump’s effort to waste more than $5 billion that is needed for disaster relief, health care, education, housing, and food on a harmful wall that will stand forever as a symbol of hate.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.

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