“There are no winners in the compromise moving through the U.S. Senate to re-open our federal government without a deal to save our health care. The cruelty and intransigence of Republican leaders in Congress is forcing tens of millions of people to go hungry and will soon cause millions more to have their health care costs skyrocket, or to lose their health coverage entirely. Republican leaders in Congress abandoned their own constituents, their humanity, and their basic decency by forcing children and seniors to go hungry, by firing needed federal workers, as well as by putting people – including some who are sick and disabled – at risk for losing their health care – and then using them all as bargaining chips in their win-at-all-costs battle to protect tax breaks for billionaires.

“For America’s moms, feeding our children and being able to afford health care are not luxuries – but it is excruciatingly clear that our lives and our health matter not at all to Donald Trump or Republican leaders in Congress. Their actions are utterly disgraceful. America’s moms will remember.”