Protect Our Care

Rep. Neguse: Knowing that this is a matter of life and death for millions of Americans, why pursue this type of terrible provision, policy, that we know will result in countless Americans no longer being able to access the care that they need to survive? It’s cruel.

Sen. Markey: If Republicans truly cared about protecting children, they would reverse the nearly $1 trillion Medicaid cuts that are stripping coverage for millions of children and their families all across our country.

Sen. Markey: Trump is limiting access to needed medical care, dehumanizing people by referring to them with the wrong pronouns, making fun of them, and ending critical discrimination protections. … Trans people have always existed, and they cannot be erased.

Sen. Kaine introduces for the record a powerful letter from a fellow Virginian on being the parent of a 21 year old who has undergone gender affirming care:

Sen. Kaine speaks on the reality of being a transgender person in America today: This hearing is in a context… and it is a context of intense hostility against transgender people.

Sen. Kaine: If you’re a trans kid watching this hearing… You are a beautiful precious person. You are made and precious and worthy of love as you are. You have a lot of people who love and care about you.

Sen. Baldwin: This morning, instead of addressing the issues that people really care about — like the high cost of health care — Republicans are here to say that politicians should be involved in families health care decisions.

Sen. Sanders to Sen. Cassidy: Your colleagues do not think it’s a great idea for the federal government to tell every woman in this country what she can do with her body, that’s correct.

Sen. Sanders: Bottom line, gender affirming care for youth should be between a doctor, a patient, and their parents. Not politicians and the federal government.

Senate Republicans are kicking off Pride month with a hearing on transgender children and the ‘dangers’ of gender-affirming care. Sen. Sanders: What this hearing is about is not health care — it is not about children. It is about base politics. [...] You pick on a powerless minority.

Rep. Doggett: The nonpartisan CBO has estimated that just a 10% cut to the NIH funding, and a 9 month delay at the FDA review, would result in 53 fewer drugs coming on to the market. Trump is proposing cuts that are nearly 4x greater than what the CBO analyzed.

Secretary Rubio on Secretary RFK Jr.’s handling of the vaccine schedule: The State Department made the decision that we are going to reengage. … We have certainly allowed Secretary Kennedy to play a leading role, but right now, we’re at a stage where we are going to reengage.

"I spent my career chasing outbreaks. RFK Jr. is creating them." @lgsararodriguez.bsky.social ez spent her career chasing outbreaks. Now she's sounding the alarm about the man leading America's health agencies. Watch her explain why she believes public health is at risk.

Sen. Booker: We cut early detection when it comes to infectious diseases on the continent, factually. This is not an opinion. We made those cuts. We cut early warning systems on the continent. Sec. Rubio: That had nothing to do with the Ebola outbreak.

Sen. Alsobrooks on Health Secretary RFK Jr.: How shameful it is that at time when the worst measles outbreak in decades is still raging, and as ebola and hantavirus threaten the globe, there is no one in control in these critical positions.

CNN reports from the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak. Without the help of USAID — shuttered by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE — this is the reality of the global health emergency today: no vaccine, an overburdened response system, and thousands of people suffering.

John Oliver: Just last week, administration officials triumphantly announced indictments as part of their ongoing crackdown on health care fraud. But [...] some of those fraud cases seem strikingly similar to those for which Trump has granted clemency, when people have had connections to him.

Joseph Schwartz, the head of a nursing home empire, plead guilty to orchestrating a $39 million payroll tax scheme. Trump pardoned him. Throughout June, Protect Our Care will be holding Trump and Congressional Republicans accountable for the damage they’ve done and the fraud they’ve condoned.

Sen. Ossoff: While Americans pay more and get less, while our insurance premiums skyrocket and hospitals close down services, while American service members are wounded and killed in action — the first family is raking in billions of dollars.

Sen. Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing while depicts himself as Christ. While he depicts the Obamas as apes. While he plunges the nation into reckless war, sends prices soaring, and plunders our health care to cut taxes for those who already have spectacular wealth.

Rep. Boyle: While this president is worried about billion dollar ballrooms and slush funds for criminals, we Democrats are actually talking about high has prices, high health care premiums, high food costs, and what we can actually do to bring down costs for the American people.

Rep. Jeffries: The cost of living is out of control, housing costs are too high, grocery bills are too high, gas prices are too high, utility bills are too high, and health care costs are way too high. America is too expensive. And it is a direct result of failed Trump and Republican policies.

CNN reports: Former USAID official says President Trump and Elon Musk “have blood on their hands,” after cuts to USAID funding left the Democratic Republic of Congo without many of the necessary resources to respond to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

Gov. Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for health care — but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the capital.

Sen. Schumer: The ballroom is the perfect symbol of this Republican budget bill. Republicans are focused on all the wrong things. … The Republican bill still does nothing to lower grocery costs, lower rent, lower gas prices, lower health care costs.

Sen. Schumer: Donald Trump and the GOP know they’re losing right now. Inflation has hit its worst level in years. The cost of everything from gas, to groceries, to health care, to housing is through the roof — and Americans know who caused it: Donald Trump.

Rep. Jeffries: We have a broken health care system that Republicans have decimated — unprecedented attacks on the health care of the American people in all of the things. T

Sen. Gallego: Trump and Republicans are cutting Medicaid of the poorest Americans, and kicking families off food stamps when grocery prices are jumping through the roof. And to add insult to injury, it’s not just a matter of funding priorities — he is taxing all of them at the same time.

Rep. Auchincloss: You are a pharmacist. Would you actually say that the MMR vaccine is not safe and effective? Rep. Carter: Obviously it’s safe and effective. Rep. Auchincloss: Good. I would love to hear the Secretary of HHS say that unequivocally, and tell parents to get their kids vaccinated.

In response to the hantavirus outbreak, the Trump administration has put Dr. Brian Christine in charge… a vaccine-denying, conspiracy theory-promoting, urologist turned content creator, who said the covid pandemic “led to a wider government plot to control people.”

Rep. Jeffries: The country is falling apart, the economy is a disaster, gas prices have skyrocketed, [Trump] has gotten us involved in this reckless and costly war-of-choice over in the Middle East, health care is being ripped away from the American people, inflation if through the roof...

Rep. AOC: [Donald Trump and Republicans] are trying to take $1 billion out of our health care and put that towards a ballroom when people are already struggling. It is deeply out of touch. I think it is insulting to everyday people who are trying to get by on an honest day’s work.

Rep. Pettersen: During Women’s Health Week, let’s remember that Donald Trump has consistently put us last.

CNN data analyst: Donald Trump — 65% disapprove of him on health care. That is the highest for any president this century.

Rep. McGovern: Republicans ripped health care from millions of people in this country. ... They raised the price of everything from utilities to groceries — and they did it all to give tax breaks to their billionaire donors and rubber stamp every dumb idea Donald Trump comes up with.

CNN Health Contributor: The goal is to create chaos, to make people unsure about vaccines, and he has been successful because these viruses and bacteria are now coming back and harming our children.

CNN Health Contributor: The only person that benefits is Robert F Kennedy Jr. who can continue to go on his war against vaccines by suppressing information that shows he’s wrong. It’s a dangerous time.

Rep. Jeffries: The Republican assault on the health care of the American people has ripped away the ability of millions of Americans to go see a doctor when they need one.

Rep. Aguilar: While families are making impossible decisions about affording their prescription drugs or their groceries, this week Republicans are giving ICE another $70 billion to terrorize our communities.

Sen. Booker: Donald Trump has been clear to Americans that he does not care about the financial pain that he has caused. He has caused millions of Americans to lose their health care, to have their clinics and hospitals close.

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PabloReports: What do you make of Donald Trump saying that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situations? Rep. McGovern: I mean, is anybody surprised? I’ve been saying all along that Donald Trump doesn’t give a shit about regular people in this country.

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying that he doesn’t think about the financial situation of the American people? Rep. Grijalva: Isn't it obvious? Based on his policies? Of course he doesn't. He doesn't care about any of us.

Joe Scarborough reports on the affordability crisis:

Sen. Booker: Republicans created this problem. They gutted $1 trillion from Medicaid and failed to expand the subsidies for Obamacare, making millions lose their health insurance and see their prices skyrocket. … Right now, you are not better off than you were two years ago — you are worse off.

Sen. Murphy: We are in the middle of a health care cataclysm because President Trump’s policies are causing 4 million people this year to lose their health care.

Brian Tyler Cohen: Whereas Trump said prices would go down, he started a trade war that sent the prices of everything surging. He cut everybody’s health care, cut everybody’s food assistance, and instead started delivering for himself.

Maddow: Trump has just nominated yet another person for Surgeon General. ... This latest one he's nominated is a Fox News personality who sells tinctures on Instagram, and what she says are “powerful-physician formulated aphrodisiacs.” So clearly, we’re in good hands… or at least we’re in hands.

Rachel Maddow: Under Donald Trump, the US government’s health agencies are also leaning in on tanning beds for kids. Seriously — for kids. So your kid can have healthy looking skin, like HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Start them early enough and they will look like this in no time!

Senator Raphael Warnock: We’re now in another war in the Middle East at the cost of $1 to $2 billion dollars a day. With the money we’ve spent bombing Iran, we could have paid for pre-K.

“People want to know they are being seen.” @govwesmoore.bsky.social lays out what’s at stake in the fight for Black maternal health: confronting bias in care, expanding the pipeline for doctors and nurses of color, and treating every patient with urgency and dignity.

Rep. Boyle: There is a second reconciliation bill that is going through Congress right now. Does it have even one dime to go to health care? No. Does it have a dime to address any of the other rising costs facing the American people? No. Oh, but it does have $1 billion for Donald Trump’s ballroom.

Former CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure: The administration and Congress decided that what they wanted to do was take $1 trillion from the health care system, from Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.

Congressional Republicans increased health care premiums by 58%, on average when they ripped away the ACA tax credits. That is thousands of dollars out of your pocket — all because they wanted to give tax breaks to billionaires.

Joe: One day, Trump just decided to tear down the White House. And all that talk about how it wasn’t going to cost you anything? Well, the war cost you $250 billion, and this is going to cost you another $1 billion.

Ohio voter: The Big Beautiful Bill didn't help me. It didn't help me in the least. If anything, it's one of the reasons I'm having to go back to work. Trump cut essential programs like health care just to give tax breaks to the billionaire class. Meanwhile, this is the reality Americans are facing.

MSNOW reports: While people will be able to get access to abortion medication this week — including through the mail — that is for one week, and one week only, until the Supreme Court further acts. That means that broadly access to abortion medication in this country is still very much at risk.

Rep. Boyle: The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 15 million Americans are about to lose their health care — that will be the single biggest loss of health care in American history.

Sec. Buttigieg on RFK and Donald Trump: The President literally owns a club that you have to pay $1 million just to get into. These are not folks who have navigated the [health care] system in a way that they have to worry about any of it. … It’s just not their problem.

MSNOW reports: On Friday, Nebraska became the first state to enact Medicaid work requirements. The move is expected to strip coverage from around 25,000 residents who qualified for the program under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion.

Rep. Boyle: 90% of the American people would just like to see lower gas prices. 90% of the American people would like to see affordable health care. … That’s what the American people care about. It’s a shame they don’t have a President of a Republican majority who gives a damn about it.

Platner: In the 30 years that Susan Collins has been in office, things have gotten harder for working-class Mainers. … We have seen our health care system fall apart. We have seen our hospitals closing ... primarily because the Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill.

Rep. Clark: All of this started by taking away people’s fundamental health care in order to give tax breaks to the billionaire class.

Louisiana farmer Kaden Cable on Trump’s affordability crisis: How do you tell somebody that you’re not actually fine? How do you tell them: 'I had to debate whether or not to drop my medical insurance, or not pay our water or electric bill'?

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: We, as a country, have to decide what we’re going to prioritize. Is it making sure that the wealthiest get even wealthier? Is if going to war when we don’t have to? Or is it our communities and our families? Check out the link in our bio to watch the full conversation.

Sen. Warren: This bill to rubber stamp Trump’s latest vanity project is a giant slap in the face to American families.

Protect Our Care has mapped 889 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes that have closed, or are at risk of closure or cuts, due to the Republican-made cuts to national health care funding. We update that map every single day.

Rep. Horsford: It was a choice to pass a bill last July that some call the One Big Beautiful Bill — I call it a betrayal of a bill. ... It was a choice to take $1 trillion out of the health care system. And now, there are consequences to that choice.

Brad Woodhouse, President of Protect Our Care: The first thing that Congress should do — or maybe President Trump should do — is show RFK Jr. the door.

Protect Our Care has mapped 889 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes that have closed or are at risk of closing due to the Republican-made cuts to national health care funding. We update that map every single day.

Gov. Josh Shapiro: Unfortunately, the federal government has cut billions of dollars out of rural health care, which makes it much harder for us particularly poor women. They've slashed billions in Medicaid so I've got fewer access points for poor women in rural communities.

Rep. Thompson asking the important questions

Protect Our Care collects stories from Americans who are facing the worst of the Republican-made health care crisis — whether that's increased premiums, shuttered hospitals and care centers, endless hours of caretaking labor, or loss of health care all together. Here are a few of them:

Rep. Doggett: The TrumpRx is as phony as a diploma from the failed Trump University.

Brad Woodhouse, President of Protect Our Care: As of this morning, 889 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes have either shut down, cut services, or are at risk of doing so since Congress passed H.R. 1.

Brad Woodhouse, President of Protect Our Care: No amount of finger pointing can distract from the reality that HR 1 cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA, which will rip life-saving coverage away from 15 million Americans, including seniors, children, and people with disabilities.

Rep. Neal: Republicans ripped coverage from 15 million people and pushed hundreds of hospitals to the brink — and then they complain about the problem, after it’s their tax bill that’s going to lead to these massive cuts.

Rep. Horsford: At a time when they have already cut health care by $1 trillion, given tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations, now they want to find money for Trump’s vanity project. These are not the priorities that the majority of Americans care about.

We need to be having real conversations about how Republican cuts to health care are impacting Americans every day. Raising awareness starts with listening, understanding, and speaking up about what’s at stake. To hear the full conversation with Pete and Victoria, check out the link in our bio.

MSNOW reports that under the Trump administration, NIH research for women’s health issues and research conducted by women is being specifically targeted for funding cuts.

Florida voter: I struggle every day, and now I’m taking care of my mom who’s older, and being denied simple things like breathing meds. ... What are you going to do? So, I don’t eat this week, because I have to take mom to the doctors tomorrow. You decide, what’s more important?

Sen. Cortez Masto: I am hearing from people in Nevada who are suffering because of the actions of this administration, but most importantly, [RFK Jr.].

RFK Jr. says "Only very sick kids should die of measles." NO child should die of measles, Mr. Secretary.

CNN Host: So far in 2026, US measles cases are 1,748… 2024 it was only 285.

Sen. Ossoff: In the wealthiest country in the world the world, no one should be denied needed health care or delay needed health care, by a wildly profitable insurance industry when premiums are just going up and up and up. Especially since the Republicans refused to extend the ACA tax credits.

Colbert: Is that a good sign when your Health Secretary breaths like a walrus snorting lobster bisque? If he sounds like a bear getting auto-erotic asphyxiated? Like he’s the first person in history to need a C-PAP while awake?