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**MEDIA ALERT FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 28** Tuesday on Capitol Hill, King Charles won’t be the only person who wears a crown

April 24, 2026
Early Care & Education, Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Moms to Recognize Congressional Champions Tuesday at 10 am. Democratic Women’s Caucus/Mamas' Caucus Hearing on Care, Affordability Tuesday at 1 pm.

Next Tuesday, April 28, MomsRising is bringing moms and children, who will be wearing paper crowns, to the U.S. Capitol to ask Congress to address the affordability and care crises that are pushing so many working families to the brink. With Mother’s Day approaching, they will be bringing the message:  

We may not be kings, but we deserve your attention, too. We’re counting on Congress to make health care, child care, gas, groceries, and life affordable for our families. 

The events will be:

10 am ET, Mother’s Day Champion Pin Award Pop-Up, Capitol Visitors Center, Room 217. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark are among the more than a dozen lawmakers expected to attend. This fun—and photo-friendly—event will feature Members of Congress speaking with families about how our affordability crisis is affecting them. Children will be dressed as superheroes, and moms will recognize lawmakers with “We Love Moms” champion pins. Open to media.

1 pm ET, Moms Pay the Price: The Republican Affordability Crisis, Democratic Women’s Caucus & Mamas’ Caucus Hearing, MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and MomsRising members from Florida, Georgia and Michigan will testify about how the affordability and care crises are affecting their families. *Media interested in attending in person or virtually should RSVP to lizzie.johnson@mail.house.gov. This hearing will be livestreamed on the Democratic Women’s Caucus Facebook and YouTube feeds.

Also Tuesday, MomsRising members and children will deliver storybooks (cover here) with stories from moms around the country to congressional offices – all with the message that moms and families can’t afford to foot the bill for the economic hardship the Trump tariffs and Republicans’ cruel funding cuts to health care, food, and public education are causing.

On Wednesday, April 29, a small group of MomsRising members will carry an oversized banner with receipts submitted by moms around the country through the halls of Congress and ask lawmakers how they plan to address our country’s affordability crisis. 

MomsRising will have Getty photos available after these events 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.