Republicans Have Led Us Into a Full Government Shutdown
For ten straight months, Republicans have attacked our health care from every angle.
Trump and Congressional Republicans have driven us straight into a government shutdown. Why? Because they refuse to do the one thing working families need most: lower health care costs.
Let’s be clear: Republicans don’t care that families can’t afford prescription drugs or that premiums are spiraling out of control. They don’t care if rural hospitals close or cancer research funding dries up. As long as their billionaire donors keep cutting campaign checks, they’re fine with throwing millions of people off their health insurance.
For ten straight months, Republicans have attacked our health care from every angle. They’ve:
Jacked up medication costs,
Slashed funding for life-saving medical research,
Put rural hospitals on the chopping block, and
Cut coverage for more than 15 million people.
And as of yesterday, they have led us into a full government shutdown which they promised they would continue unless we let them raise premiums even higher.
Republicans have a simple choice: fix our health care crisis or keep the government shut down. It shouldn’t be a hard choice.
We’ve faced these fights before, and when we come together, we’ve won. We can do it again. But we need to make it clear to our leaders: we won’t accept any funding bill that throws millions off their health insurance or drives our health care costs even higher.
- Working Families Power