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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising Parenting & Families Podcast Politics & Policy Reproductive Justice

How Trump & RFK Jr. Are Making the Child Care & Health Care Crisis Worse, Why Humor Breaks Partisan Divides

09/10/25
On the radio show this week we dive into Trump's inconsistent policies on child care, which exacerbate the child care crisis by creating uncertainty and underfunding programs. We discuss the role of humor and storytelling in breaking partisan divides and fostering empathy. We hear about the harmful...
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Tell Congress to reject further ICE funding and to restore congressional oversight

09/08/25
Last week in Encinitas, California, a routine school drop-off turned into a nightmare. A father had just dropped off his daughter at school - when in full view of his family and stunned bystanders - masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents snatched him from his car without a...
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Congress! STOP the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education!

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Education isn’t just a local issue. Every child in America deserves a fair chance, no matter their zip code, race, ability, or background. That’s what the Department of Education helps protect. We must not let it be erased.

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Tell Congress to back the Senate version of the Farm Bill that protects SNAP and reject the Republican-led House version that would increase hunger!

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SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!

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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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With rising food costs, and increased program participation, it is more critical than ever that we strengthen and protect WIC! Sign our letter to Congress now.

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