Your Voice is Needed! Federal Reconciliation Bill

Take a minute to forward this action alert. The more people who speak up, the louder and more powerful our community’s message becomes.

Dear Jane,

 

We need your voice more than ever.  Congress is debating a sweeping budget bill that’s being promoted as a “Big, Beautiful Bill” – but for Maine, it’s anything but. Senator Collins is in a unique position to influence the outcome of this bill and make changes where it really counts. Send an email to Senator Collins here! 

We’re at a critical moment in our efforts to defend Medicaid, a vital program that provides affordable health care coverage to millions of people. US Senate leaders continue to rush forward, preparing to cut billions of dollars from the Medicaid program to pay for new tax breaks that only benefit the wealthy and big corporations. 342,000 Mainers utilize Medicaid/CHIP. The House bill was already the biggest cut to Medicaid in history and the Senate seeks steeper cuts. Two of the most sweeping proposed changes include:

  • A mandatory national work requirement for the Medicaid expansion population. This is similar to a policy that Arkansas and Georgia have tried and which has proven to lead to large coverage losses and a new and expensive administrative burden on states.
  • Requiring people with coverage through Medicaid expansion or the marketplace to verify their eligibility more frequently, which will drown eligible people in paperwork.

Other substantive pieces of this bill include:

  • Guting clean energy investments that are creating good-paying jobs and lowering energy costs for Mainers
  • Slashing funding for national parks and public lands, including beloved places like Acadia, limiting access to the outdoors and hurting local economies
  • Undermining environmental protections by attacking the EPA and other agencies responsible for keeping our air and water clean and our communities healthy

Bottom line: If this bill is passed, people will die, whether it be from a lack of healthcare access, a climate change-fueled natural disaster, or inability to pay for food or housing. We must not continue to enrich billionaires while taking invaluable resources away from the most vulnerable among us.
CONTACT SENATOR COLLINS TODAY 

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