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Statement “At a time when our country is experiencing unprecedented income inequality, with the rich getting richer and working families struggling to put food on the table and afford child care and college, the Trump administration and House and Senate Republican leaders today offered a plan that provides tax breaks for the wealthiest while undermining moms, families and the economy. This plan would exacerbate inequities and leave the government without the resources it needs for basic services that fuel our economy and lift millions.  

Statement “Today marks Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day to which the average Native American woman working full-time has to work until her earnings match the average pay for a white man from the previous year. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders earned just 59 cents for every dollar paid to white men last year. For American Indian and Alaska Native women, that number is even lower – just 57 cents on the dollar.  

News release WASHINGTON, DC -- This week, local members of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, in Arizona, Colorado and Ohio will deliver cupcakes to the in-district offices of Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) urging them to oppose the Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill and protect the health insurance of the more than 30 million Americans who would lose coverage under the proposed legislation.  In Arizona, MomsRising members will deliver “thank you’ cupcakes to Senator John McCain (R-AZ).

Statement “We thank and commend U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for his principled decision, announced today, to vote against the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson health care repeal bill, which would do tremendous harm to women, mothers, children and our economy. Senator McCain is right that health care is too important to be reformed on a partisan basis and that no reform bill should be rushed through the U.S. Senate with just one sham hearing and without a complete analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.