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Rising Voices Condemns House GOP Vote to Slash Medicaid and Social Services

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    Rising Voices
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DETROIT - Rising Voices is outraged by the House Republicans’ vote to pass President Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill,” which makes significant cuts to Medicaid and other critical social services that over 2.6 million Michiganders–including 1 million children–depend on every day. All of these cuts are happening in order to give the wealthiest 1 percent permanent tax breaks. 


These cuts are a direct attack on working families who are struggling to make ends meet. Nationally, 1 in 5 Asian Americans rely on Medicaid for health insurance. Over the last decade, thanks to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare), the uninsured rate for Asian Americans fell dramatically from 16.6% in 2010 to 6.2% in 2022, resulting in 4.6 million more Asian Americans gaining health coverage. This progress is now in jeopardy because House Republicans are once again betting that their failed experiment of “trickle-down” economics will somehow work this time around.  


In Michigan, Medicaid paid for 45% of all births and helped save over 27,000 lives annually through preventative care for conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, funded by the ACA. Stripping away this funding will push many in our community into making impossible choices, such as whether to seek care or pay rent, or to fill a prescription rather than buy groceries. The proposed $700 million cut to Medicaid funding would disproportionately harm Asian American, immigrant, and working-class families, deepening health disparities and economic insecurity.


Despite public outcry and calls for Congress to protect Medicaid, SNAP, public education and other critical programs, 7 members of Michigan’s congressional delegation ignored their constituents and voted in favor of this disastrous bill to help line the pockets of their wealthy donors and kowtow to President Trump: Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI-1), Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI-2), Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI-5), Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI-7), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI-9), and Rep. John James (R-MI-10). 


But the fight is not over. We urge all Michiganders to contact Senator Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin and demand they put the people of Michigan first and reverse the cuts made by the House. We cannot allow our communities’ health and well-being to be sacrificed to further enrich the wealthy. Let Senator Peters and Slotkin know we are counting on them to protect life-saving programs our families rely on—the survival of our families and loved ones is at stake. 



Contact Senator Gary Peters

DC Office: 202-224-6221

MI Office: 313-226-6020


Contact Senator Elissa Slotkin

DC Office: 202-224-4822

MI Office: 313-961-4330



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Rising Voices, a project of the Center for Empowered Politics, is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization that seeks to increase the civic participation of Asian Americans in Michigan by developing the leadership, organizing, and power-building capacity of Asian American women, youth, and communities. risingvoicesaaf.org 

 
 
 
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Rising Voices is fiscally sponsored by the Center for Empowered Politics, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization; Rising Voices Fund is sponsored by the Center for Empowered Politics Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Rising Voices is based in stolen occupied territories called Waawiiyaataanong, named by the Anishinaabeg and includes the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewatomi (Potawatomi) peoples. We acknowledge that Asian American immigration is part of the history of settler colonialism and  that all Indigenous peoples have and continue to be forcibly removed from their homelands. Rising Voices stands in solidarity with Black and Indigenous communities who continue to be systemically excluded and oppressed through the ongoing damaging effects of settler colonialism, genocide, and myths of white supremacy.

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