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Faith Leaders Address Healthcare Crisis

Members of MCAN a faith & values grassroots org are calling on elected leaders to choose long-term justice over short-term fixes addressing the government shutdown. Rev. Emmanuel Daphnis of Restoration Community Church stated, “While we grieve the harm a shutdown causes for workers, families & communities, we know from our scriptures & traditions that choosing what is expedient over what is just leads to deeper suffering. We cannot accept a budget that locks in devastating cuts from the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, stripping resources from our schools, health care, housing & the safety net that so many of our families depend on.” Rev. Nathan Ives added, “We are encouraged by senators & legislators who are boldly standing with the millions who would be devastated by cuts to health insurance tax credits. No one welcomes a shutdown, but keeping the government open by forcing huge hikes in health insurance premiums on our most vulnerable is not liberty & justice for all.” Janine Carreiro-Young, Co-Executive Director of MCAN concluded, “Scripture calls us to care for the widow, the orphan & the stranger — those most vulnerable among us. Passing a budget that sacrifices their wellbeing for political gain is nothing less than a moral failure. A temporary shutdown is painful, but passing a cruel budget locks us into permanent injustice.” MCAN has a 35+ year history as a faith & values rooted org rooted in diverse spiritual traditions. MCAN centers equity & justice to lead our nation towards truly being a “more perfect union” in partnership nationally with Faith In Action. 
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Pennsylvania Stands Up For Healthcare

In our series of community leaders addressing the government shutdown Pennsylvania Stands Up responds to Trump & Congress’s failed attempt to force Democrats to vote to finance fascism & the theft of American taxpayers money on behalf of corporations & billionaires. Carrie Santoro, Pennsylvania Stands Up Executive Director stated, “No blank checks to pay for BS. Working folks are getting squeezed left & right by rising rent, utility bills & health care costs. We do not want our representatives in Congress writing any blank checks that make our lives worse. The proposal on the table doesn’t make anything Pennsylvanians need cheaper. It doesn’t reopen closed hospitals. It doesn’t return the public dollars that were stolen from us. The deal on the table only gives us stuff we don’t want. We do not want our neighbors abducted. We do not want our peers & elders to have their health care stolen from them. We do not want our families with kids to have their food taken away. Pennsylvanians are facing massive SNAP & health care cuts because the Republicans in our congressional delegation voted for the Big Ugly Budget so their billionaire donor, Jeffrey Yass, could get another tax cut, another mansion & another yacht. Pennsylvanians know that’s not right. We’re organizing in Harrisburg to fight cuts to funding for housing, health care, transit & education. Congress & Trump need to cancel the cuts, lower costs & save our health care.” Pennsylvania Stands Up believes everyone deserves to live with safety & dignity. They work to elect transformative leaders who will create policy that builds a Pennsylvania that works for all people. 
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Maine People’s Alliance On Healthcare

With the federal shutdown Maine People’s Alliance & faith leaders call on Senator Susan Collins to extend premium tax credits for people with marketplace health coverage & stop funding ICE. Amy Halsted, Co-Executive Director of Maine People’s Alliance stated, “There is more than enough for all of us to thrive if billionaires & corporate CEOs don’t steal it. So it’s time for Congress to focus on our needs, not their greed. Rural Mainers are facing the dual threat of losing our health care coverage and our hospitals. Our people & our hospitals were already at risk before congressional Republicans cut $1 trillion in health care funding to give billionaires & big businesses more tax breaks. Our health system is now in code blue. Five hospitals have recently closed their maternity wards. More cuts mean more closures & in January, 20,000 Mainers will lose their health coverage because of H.R.1. – Trump’s ‘One Big Bill.’ Every member of Congress ought to fight to prevent that from happening, especially Senator Collins who holds the pen on these bills. Without access to health care people will die.” Rev. Tara Humphries of Allen Avenue UU Church concluded, “Stripping access to healthcare & funding the forced removal of our neighbors without their constitutional right to due process is immoral. I don’t care what ‘side’ you’re on… Mainers take care of one another. It’s who we are. I hope Senator Collins will remember the communities to whom she is accountable & that it’s never too late to side with love & justice.” Maine People’s Alliance is dedicated to providing Maine people with the tools, knowledge, skills & opportunity to become involved in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. 
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Americans Holding Out For Healthcare

American community leaders are urging Representatives in the House & Senate to hold the line on healthcare amidst the failed attempt to force Democrats to vote for a budget to finance fascism on behalf of corporations & billionaires. Sulma Arias, People’s Action Executive Director stated, “Our leaders must put people first & refuse to comply with the oligarchs waging war against us. Democrats are right to refuse to be complicit in stealing our money, bankrolling billionaires & financing fascism. Now Republicans are showing they are willing to hurt working people even more rather than sit down & negotiate on health care funding with Democrats. Working people need Social Security checks, Medicare & veterans’ benefits. Government workers need paychecks to run our national parks, administer veterans benefits & keep our food & our planes safe. They’re not going to get them because MAGA’s agenda is so greedy & violent that the GOP can’t get it passed even when Republicans control the House, Senate & White House. Republicans must come to the table with Democrats to negotiate health care & other crucial priorities. They must back off MAGA’s demands for more money for abductions & more theft of our funds for food, housing & care. Congress should fight to make this country affordable to working families, not just corporations & the ultra-rich.” People’s Action org is a proud national network of 38 member-based, power-building organizations in 29 states with more than a million members & tens of thousands of national volunteers. They are from every background, speak many languages & live in small towns, cities & rural areas. 
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