Over the first two years of President Trump's second term, funding for Medicaid was slashed by roughly a trillion dollars – routing money that should've been used to help people access health care, including people with disabilities, into the pockets of ICE and its corporate contractors. Masked agents flooded our streets, killing and beating our neighbors and tearing families apart. And politicians have pursued aggressive mid-decade gerrymandering to avoid accountability for these unpopular decisions and shut voters out of a meaningful say at the polls.
But voters made themselves clear on Election Day. This election was an historic, monumental repudiation of politicians misusing their power to enrich and entrench themselves at the people's expense. Anything short of transformational change isn't enough. Congress needs to unrig the system that has failed us, and as a first step, I'm calling on you to undo the drastic Medicaid cuts, rein in ICE, and ban partisan gerrymandering and mid-decade redistricting for good in the first week of the new Congress.
It's time to deliver for voters. Please act immediately to reverse the disastrous Medicaid cuts, rein in ICE, and ensure voters can hold their representatives accountable.
