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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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"Breaking Through:Why Everyone from Domestic Workers to Birth Workers Needs Medicaid. Organizing Locally for Child Care. Another Bipartisan Program Under Attack."

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...
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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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*ACTION FOR APRIL RECESS: Deliver stories to your U.S. Representative in-district

03/20/25
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment!!! The headlines are bleak and members of Congress need to hear from us again and again. (Thank you in advance!!) We’ve all been speaking out by the thousands because we know that the long-term impact of the budget cuts being proposed (including potentially...
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TAKE ACTION: Save the Department of Education from Trump

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45889/?source=action">TAKE ACTION: Save the Department of Education from Trump</a>

Well, Trump did it. The president just signed an Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education. But, he can’t do that without Congressional approval.

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Stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!

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Trump’s tariff war on families means only one thing: rising costs for all of us! ***SIGN OUR LETTER calling on the U.S. Congress to intervene, save our economy, and stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!

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How are rising costs impacting you and your family?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/44780/?source=action">How are rising costs impacting you and your family?</a>

Trump and the Republican's actions are leading to rising costs for everything from groceries to housing to fuel. How will this impact you and your family?

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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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