Mickey Ringhaus, 70, from Iowa, told a lot of demonstrators that she was afraid that her adult son Medicaid will lose. The demonstrators organized by the National Advocacy Group Fair Share America protested on Thursday, April 10, 2025, the outputs of the Congress Republicans protested in front of the US Capitol (photo of Ashley Murray/States newsroom)
Washington – hundreds before the US Capitol demonstrated on Thursday and asked the Republicans of the Congress to rethink the crucial reduction programs for millions of Americans in order to extend the tax cuts of President Donald Trump 2017.
The previously planned rally organized by the Advocacy Coalition Fair Share America occurred less than an hour after the Republicans of the house with a narrow edge. adopted a household solution This paves the way for negotiations on deep expenditure, while the congress works to extend the 2017 tax law.
The supporters who flew from 30 countries and drove with the legislator on the Capitol Hill with the legislator say that the cuts would be devastating for Americans with low incomes, among other things, who rely on state health care, nutrition and early education programs.
A state report by Democrats last month Project up to 25 million All over the country, access to Medicaid could lose a health program that covers the medical costs for some people with low income and care in nursing if the Republicans successfully pass their proposed cuts to create the budget for around $ 4.5 trillion for tax reduction.
“This is for so many of us personally, and many of them are from all over the country, Utah, Iowa, Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan,” said Kristen Crowell, Executive by Fair Share America, the crowd. “This is a national movement that we are the people we have been waiting for.”
The legislator “has to look us in the eye as they harm,” said Crowell.
Medicaid ‘was my lifeline’
Cadon Sagendorf from Salt Lake City, Utah, told his story when he had rely on Medicaid while grew up in the care system. Foster Youth automatically entitled to the state -funded health program managed by the states.
“I was built into the care system at birth and spent 10 days in the intensive care unit of Meth, Marijuana, Heroin and Kocaine. I was said goodbye later seven months later, but at the age of 15 my adoption failed and I became back in the care system,” said Sagendorf, which was 23 years elderly today and studied psychology at the university of the university at the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of University. University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University.
“Medicaid was not just a policy, it was my lifeline,” said Sagendorf.
In most cases, Foster youthful people who come from the system from the system at the age of 18 can after to the state accountability.
Mickey Rottinghaus, 70, from Center Point, Iowa, said that she was afraid that her adult son Tucker could lose his Medicaid advantages if the congress goes hand in hand with in -depth spending cuts.
The program pays itself for a nurse and a home health advisor to support him every morning, seven days a week.
The 50 -year -old Tucker was paralyzed after he was shot in the apartment of 0.22 in the apartment of a friend in the apartment of a friend in 1994.
“Our family was changed in a few moments,” said Ringhaus of the crowd.
For three decades she has been arranging his care and has put together a daily schedule of nurses, which is paid for by Medicaid, the care paid for by the care and a circle of friends who report voluntarily to assist.
In the past two years she has lived with her son in Waterloo, Iowa to feed him in the afternoon and bring him to bed at night.
“I know that if he didn’t have Medicaid, he could not have a nurse and a domestic adjutant in the morning,” she told Stand’s Newsroom in an interview after her speech.
The “hell, no” congress
Several Democrats of the House and the Senate spoke to the demonstrators, the signs with the messages with “taxed” and “now fair taxes”.
Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon borrowed a shield of the crowd, in which “Dangerous Oligarchs use everything” and referred to the consultant of the billionaire of the White House, Elon Musk Doge Cost-Cutting agenda.
“Well, I’ll tell you I am a member of hell, no congress. Are you a member?” He screamed at the crowd.
“When Republicans say:” We’ll “lower Medicaid”, let’s say “hell no,” he said and asked the crowd to say it with him.
Senator Raphael Warnock from Georgia said: “A budget is not just a household document, it is a moral document.”
“Show me your budget and I will show you who you think and who think that it is unnecessary. Show me your budget and I will show you what you think about children, what you think about workers, what you think is great. And if this budget that you try to say goodbye would be an EKG that the congress has a heart problem and a moral operation,” said Warnock.
Looking for spending cuts
Republican leaders of the Republican of House and Senate announced on Thursday that they will find 1.5 trillion dollars for spending cuts in the next decade. The legislators of GOP House were instructed, including 880 billion US dollars of cuts for programs for programs as part of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is among other things responsible for Medicaid.
The budget instructions that lead the coming months of negotiations also lead the house committee for education and workforce to find 330 billion US dollars in cuts, and the agricultural committee, which is responsible for government’s food programs, including SNAP, in order to find cuts of $ 230 billion.
The spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson welcomed the farewell of the Budget blossom as “on Thursday morning as”A massive victory“And” a massive day for us. “
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, claims that the 2017 tax cuts would enable “the greatest tax increase in US history at once”.
“We are responsible for bringing our country back to a fiscal fiscal trajectory and ensuring that we ensure and protect these essential programs,” he said.
