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Moms and Kids in Bee Costumes to Create a Buzz on Capitol Hill Wednesday Morning, Telling Congress: Reject the Big, Bad, BEEtrayal Bill & Instead Fund Health Care, Education, Child Care & SNAP

June 23, 2025
Federal Budget, Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Senator Murray, Others to Join MomRising Wednesday at 10:40 am - NEW LOCATION

Media Availability/Photo Opp

For Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 10:40 am

Contact: Magen Eissenstat, magen@momsrising.org, 202/609-9889

The bill the U.S. Senate will consider in the next week or so is not a Big, Beautiful Bill but rather a Big Bad BEEtrayal of America’s moms and families. It would take health care away from some 16 million people and take food assistance away from even more. It would deepen hunger among children, families, and seniors, gut Medicaid, dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), take coverage away from people with disabilities, force seniors and people with disabilities out of nursing homes, and shutter rural and other hospitals while increasing the debt and severely damaging our economy -– all in order to give another tax break to the super wealthy.

Moms and leaders will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning in bee costumes to urge lawmakers to prioritize moms and families over the billionaires and greedy corporations that want even more tax breaks. The event will be:

 

Stop the Big, Bad BEEtrayal

10:40 am, Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Hart Senate Office Building Atrium, by the “Mountains and Clouds” sculpture 

With

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (WA)

MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

MomsRising National Director for Health Care Felicia Burnett, a Raleigh, North Carolina mom whose son used Medicaid for chemotherapy

Jean Nguyen, an Olney, Maryland mom whose premature baby used Medicaid

Cindy Camp, a Baltimore, Maryland mom whose family relies on SNAP

 

 

Following the event, MomsRising will deliver stories from moms across the nation to the office of each U.S. Senator. 

“Moms are fighting for our families’ lives, our futures and our economy right now,” Rowe-Finkbeiner said. “We’re coming to Capitol Hill to create a buzz for Medicaid, for SNAP, for public schools, for reproductive health, for affordable child and elder care, and for fair treatment of every immigrant family. All of that strengthens our economy and makes it possible for us to care for our families and contribute to our communities. Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to advance a bill that destroys the programs that help moms and families succeed in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires and greedy corporations and for more cruel human rights abuses against immigrant families. Moms are determined to stop it.”

 Getty photos will be available after the event from magen@momsrising.org

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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, stop discrimination against women and moms, and 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: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.