You’re under attack. Get busy fighting.
Gotta go do a thing this morning. Courage for America’s bus stop is up the road:
Americans count on Social Security for retirement and rely on Medicare and Medicaid for prescription drugs and essential care. After a lifetime of hard work and paying in, these programs allow Americans to live and age with dignity and respect.
Some in Congress want to end these guarantees by refusing to pay bills they already owe. They would rather default on our debt obligations or make extreme cuts to hard-earned benefits than protect the seniors, veterans, teachers, health care workers, small business owners, and millions of Americans they swore to serve.
That’s why we’re on the road to demand Congress promises to back off our benefits. We started in Speaker McCarthy’s district and will finish up in D.C. to mark the MAGA House agenda’s 100th day. Join us on tour and add your name to the Back Off Our Benefits petition.
My health care hero Laura Packard is on that bus. She’s alive today because the ACA was there for her. Is the ACA enough? No. But it’s something to build on.
There are a lot of people in power determined to unmake the last 85 years, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and a post-war political economy that made this country more equal. (The last 40 years have done a number on the middle class.) They have support among other Americans committed to sustaining inequality, people who deeply believe in their own superiority and who sneer at “created equal.” You saw that again yesterday in Tennessee.
Sign the petition. Catch the bus if it stops in your town.
Tour dates are here.