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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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Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising Parenting & Families Podcast Politics & Policy

Breaking Through: Motherhood Medals? No Thanks!

04/28/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into Donald Trump's latest round of harmful, racist executive orders and outlandish ideas, like providing medals for motherhood and classes about menstrual cycles to increase the birth rate — instead of policies that moms and families really need to thrive!
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Breaking Through: Why Everyone from Domestic Workers to Birth Workers Needs Medicaid. Organizing Locally & More.

04/21/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into how your health care stories have helped sway Republican – yes Republican — lawmakers to protect Medicaid, and why everyone needs to be in this fight for Medicaid Next, we hear about a campaign in New York to rally state and federal efforts to improve child care. We cover Meals On Wheels, and how even a program considered the “gold-standard” for private-public partnerships and cost-savings is under threat because of the Trump administration’s reckless cuts. Finally, we discuss Black Maternal Health Week and why this is yet another occasion to call your lawmaker about protecting Medicaid.
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Electing Women is Protecting Women, Medicaid Matters to Moms, Busting Myths About Immigrant Families, Black Maternal Health Week.

04/14/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into the importance of electing women, and how political parity protects us from dangerous policies, like the current move by Republicans to strip millions of women of our right to vote. We hear about how MomsRising is bringing the over 1.2 million voices of our...
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Breaking Through: Busting Negative Republican Myths About Immigrant Families. How Care Policies Boost Our Economy. Saving K-12 Education. Glimmers of Hope on the Horizon.

04/07/25
On the radio show this week, we bust the negative myths that Republicans are pushing out about immigrant families; we discuss how care policies (like childcare, healthcare/Medicaid, and paid family/medical leave) boost our economy; we cover how K-12 education is under attack and the ways to fight...
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Breaking Through: Medicaid and Childcare Under Attack. Addressing The Maternal Health Emergency. Direct File Tool for Your Taxes

03/31/25
On the radio show this week we cover the problems with the damaging effects of the proposed cuts to Medicaid; the latest with the maternal health emergency in America; how access to childcare is under attack; and how to use a no cost direct file tool for your taxes. Special Guests include: Joan...
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Breaking Through: Standing Up for Our Democracy, Our Education, Our Healthcare, and Our Economy

03/24/25
On the radio show this week, we cover how Musk, Trump, and Republican leadership actions are causing chaos and undermining our economy; we dive into what’s at stake in immigration policy; hear about a program to build community and democracy; and find out how education is under attack along with...
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Tell Congress: We Need Childcare & Healthcare, Not Menstrual Education!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/47211/?source=action">Tell Congress: We Need Childcare & Healthcare, Not Menstrual Education!</a>

This week, President Trump proposed we support moms and increase birth rates through menstrual education, as he continues to gut essential programs like Medicaid and Head Start. Sign on and tell Congress: we need childcare & healthcare, not menstrual education.

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Tell Congress: We Need Childcare & Healthcare, Not Menstrual Education!

TAKE ACTION NOW to protect Head Start!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/33525/?source=action">TAKE ACTION NOW to protect Head Start!</a>

Republican leadership in Congress want to cut funding for our country’s most successful early learning program, Head Start by $750 million, depriving roughly 80,000 children access to this critical program!

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SIGN NOW to oppose cuts to Head Start!

Tell Congress to reject cuts to SNAP (Food Stamps)!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45988/?source=action">Tell Congress to reject cuts to SNAP (Food Stamps)!</a>

Tell Congress to reject the cuts to SNAP (food stamps) benefits that hardworking families rely on to put food on the table!

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SIGN NOW to Protect SNAP!

SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45024/?source=action">SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!</a>

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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Tell Congress: choose families over billionaires!