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Rep. Pingree: People in Maine are very angry about the pending cuts to Medicaid. They’re worried about their hospitals closing. And they’re deeply concerned that having Republicans in the majority right now amounts to a rubber stamp for the president.

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Morning Joe: They don't care about working Americans. If they did, they wouldn't have passed the bill they passed, which gutted health care for working Americans and gave tax cuts to billionaires and multinational corporations and millionaires.

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Senator Schumer's message to Senate Republicans: Stop Trump's health care sabotage and vote to protect your constituents' coverage — or own every lost health care policy, every closed hospital, every skyrocketing premium that follows.

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MAHA speaker: "One's a heart surgeon and one's a heartthrob, we'll let you decide which is which." Let us help. One sold magic weight-loss pills resulting in a $5.25 million false advertising settlement. The other is awaiting trial on rape and sexual assault charges.

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Upcoming MaineCare cuts will hit rural Maine hardest - MECEP

Rural hospitals are already under enormous pressure. Trump-GOP health care cuts make the crisis worse. By pushing thousands of Mainers off MaineCare, Trump and Republicans are taking money out of the health care system rural communities depend on and putting access to care at even greater risk.

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Beginning in January, tens of thousands of Mainers enrolled in MaineCare will face new work reporting requirements to keep their health care coverage. The new administrative burdens […]

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Morning Joe: We warned Republicans every day, while they were considering voting for that bill, that if they did it, they were going to savage rural health care. They did it because they had to give tax cuts to millionaires, like Roger Marshall, billionaires, and multinational corporations.

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“The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone.” The agency has lost nearly a third of its workforce. Only 1 of its 11 center directors is left. Its own scientists call it "zombified."

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Bombshell NYT Report Finds Trump CDC In Critical Condition — Protect Our Care

"The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone." A new @nytimes.com investigation finds the agency that protects Americans from disease is now a "zombified" shell. RFK Jr. has gutted it. We're all less safe because of his actions.

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See must read NYT story below; Reaction from Protect Our Care president Brad Woodhouse: “The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone. There’s a bright line...

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"It's hurting our global standing. It's making us sicker." Sen. Angela Alsobrooks on RFK Jr. replacing scientists with decades of experience with conspiracy theorists. We're all less safe.

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Sen. Angela Alsobrooks on what RFK Jr. has done to America's public health: "an absolute and utter disaster." 30% of CDC scientists gone. Measles at a 30-year high. People have died. Americans are sick of it.

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'FULL HORROR' Rep. Brendan Boyle on the 16 MILLION projected to lose health care because of Trump-GOP cuts. Republicans gutted health care to fund billionaire tax cuts. Americans are sick of paying more and getting less.

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Trump and Republicans gutted Medicaid to hand tax cuts to billionaires. Medicaid pays for roughly 4 in 10 births in America. @kamalaharris.com: 80% of maternal deaths are avoidable, and the leading reason women die is simply not being able to get care. This is the GOP health care crisis.

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"There's nothing else that I can do." Republicans ripped away the tax credits that kept Kara's coverage affordable. She'd already sold her house of 17 years to pay for her care. Now she's out of options. Americans are sick of it.

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"That is a huge increase in cost for a lot of people." KFF's Cynthia Cox on families scraping by after Republicans took away the ACA tax credits. Premiums up 58%. Deductibles up $1,000. Americans are sick of paying more and getting less.

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Sen. Michael Bennet: When the leadership of HHS spends its time amplifying conspiracy theories, they're not making communities safer. They are driving down immunization rates, leaving our schools vulnerable — and putting the lives of Colorado's children directly in harm's way.

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Hospital Crisis Watch: The Road to Health Care Gets Longer as GOP Cuts Force Critical Services to Disappear — Protect Our Care

Donald Trump and Republicans’ decision to gut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act is driving more than 1,200 hospitals, clinics, wards, and nursing homes to close their doors, cut services, or face the threat of closure or cuts.

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One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Election

"Can you imagine going from a monthly premium of zero to $850?" That's what happened to Dina Rose Friedman, 64, after Republicans in Congress took away the ACA tax credits that kept her coverage affordable. "I remember freaking out."

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The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.

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Secretary Kennedy didn’t need to rob health resources from the most vulnerable, but he did it anyway for his own benefit. Somehow RFK Jr. can always find plenty of tax dollars for flying high in military jets or promoting his own brand, from celebrity cooking shows to vanity podcasts.

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Trinity Health layoffs expose the danger of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act • Michigan Advance

557 workers at Trinity Health in Livonia, MI are losing their jobs, and the hospital system named the reason: federal cuts to Medicare & Medicaid passed by Republicans in Congress. Michigan isn't alone. Hospitals across the country are cutting staff and services, and patients are paying the price.

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Trinity Health layoffs expose the danger of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 22/09/2026

As health care costs skyrocket and millions of Americans go uninsured, what is JD Vance and Donald Trump’s solution? Kick hundreds of thousands more people off their health insurance. Senate Democrats will expand coverage and lower costs for millions of Americans when we take back the majority.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22/09/2026

"Is he celebrating cutting Medicaid after promising not to, meaning that 35,000 of his own constituents could lose their coverage?" @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on Rep. Mike Lawler's record.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22/09/2026

Senator Mark Kelly: The American people are having a really hard time affording their lives. I've got constituents I hear from who can't afford to feed their children. They've been kicked off their health care coverage... I think [Trump] is completely checked out from even trying to do the job.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22/09/2026

Trump ordered Russ Vought to cook up an executive order putting political cronies in charge of billions in NIH research grants. NIH funds the labs studying heart disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Political appointees would decide which of those grants live and which die.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tell me the system is broken without telling me the system is broken.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 21/09/2026

Rep. Jennifer McClellan: We've got to restore the enhanced premium tax credits and eliminate the Medicaid cuts before the worst of them take effect, to at least stop the bleeding.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 21/09/2026

"Even medical professionals are skipping health insurance because of high prices." A doctor and a pharmacist in Idaho just dropped coverage for their family of four. Their premium hit nearly $1,600 a month. If they can't afford it, who can?

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NEW: A nonprofit tied to RFK Jr. solicited payments from companies in exchange for access to top HHS officials, according to Bloomberg. The top tier: $300,000 for a speaking slot and a private dinner with Kennedy and Dr. Oz.

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"If you work a 9 to 5 job, then you likely worked more in the last two weeks than the House has in the past two months." Republicans demand 80 hours a month of work to keep Medicaid. House members clocked an average of 56 hours a month in session. 🤔

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Dr. Debra Houry: It shows you where RFK Jr’s priorities are, when we’re seeing record breaking cases of Cyclospora and measles, and he’s focused on this conspiracy theory.

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As students head back to school amidst the largest measles outbreak in decades, MS NOW’s Dr. Vin Gupta warns parents that RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine campaign will continue to endanger the health of their children.

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Rep. Jeffries on the ‘Rotten Age’ of Donald Trump’s second administration:

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“This is an incredibly dangerous situation and we are doing everything we can.” Gov. Shapiro shares an update on the ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania:

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MS NOW’s Jen Psaki reports on the ongoing measles outbreak, calling out RFK Jr. for his history of spreading anti-vax rhetoric and his role as US Health Secretary:

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RFK Jr. is a longtime anti-vaccine advocate. Today, he’s the US Health Secretary. In 2021, RFK Jr. told a largely Amish audience in Lancaster, PA that the cure for measles was “chicken soup and vitamin A.” Today, Lancaster County is the epicenter for the worst measles outbreak in the country.

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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough’s shares an outraged message for Republican Congressman Mike Lawler:

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“If my health fails, so does my business.” Because of the GOP’s cuts to health care in Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill, many small business owners are being forced to choose between offering their employees health insurance or paying them fairly.

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Rep. Jeffries: House Democrats believe, in this great nation, access to high-quality and affordable health care can’t simply be a privilege available only to the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected. Affordable health care must be a a right available to every single American.

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Whip Clark: Republicans have risen the cost of groceries and housing. They have made care for people’s families so expensive. They have taken away people’s health care to give tax cuts to the billionaires. And they are, with their corruption, further driving up the cost of living.

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Watch as Senator Baldwin delivers powerful remarks on the state of the US health care system under the Trump administration:

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Sen. Baldwin: The administration is raiding funding intended for infectious diseases, cancer, and Alzheimers disease research, and is instead sending that money to the Department of Defense, while they wage a war that nobody wants.

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Sen. Baldwin: The Trump administration is injecting politics into the NIH grant-making process in unprecedented ways. Decisions about what research is funded are being made by political appointees, whose credentials are fealty to the President, instead of scientific experts.

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Sen. Baldwin: This is the most serious outbreak of measles in the last 30 years. Many of these cases are children, and the spread of the disease could have been avoided by vaccination.

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Sen. Klobuchar: Do people want to spend $70 billion more on the war in Iran, or do they want to get 2 years of the ACA tax credits? Which, by the way, Trump letting those lapse has meant 8 million people have been kicked off their health care, it means premiums are up 60%.

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