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LWVUS Action Alert

Protect Medicaid Coverage

The House of Representatives has passed its budget bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This bill permanently expands tax cuts for corporations and wealthy Americans while gutting social services, including Medicaid, for people with limited incomes. With just weeks left in this budget process, we need YOUR help urging Congress to oppose Medicaid cuts.

Medicaid covers 1 in 5 people. This includes children, pregnant people, parents, and people over 65 with limited incomes, as well as people with disabilities. Medicaid enables people to access vital care like doctors’ visits, hospitalizations, long-term care, maternity care, mental health care, and rural clinic services. If the House version of the bill becomes law, more than 10 million people could lose their Medicaid coverage, and 7.6 million people could become uninsured by 2034, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The Senate is working to negotiate and pass its version of the bill. Then the House and Senate will resolve the differences and vote on a final bill before sending it to the President. Now is the time to reach out to your Senators and keep the pressure up in the House. We need as many voices as possible demanding that Congress reject legislation with Medicaid cuts.

Please take one minute to send a letter to your members of Congress. The health of our nation depends on it.

Democracy is under attack

Donate now to support efforts to defend our democracy

If you have responded to our Spring Appeal to empower voters and defend democracy, we thank you. Your donation provides resources for our dedicated volunteers to fight against undemocratic actions by our government and educate citizens to challenge those who undermine democratic principles.

Donate now and help us reach our $10,000 goal for this spring campaign. 

• You can donate by check made payable to League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and mailed to the league office at 6737 West Washington Avenue, Suite 2218, West Allis, WI 53214.  

• Or you can donate by credit card at www.lwvmilwaukee.org

There are other ways you can make a donation to LWVMC toward our Spring Appeal.    

• Give part of your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from your IRA.  Talk with your financial advisor about the tax benefits of making a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) gift from your IRA to the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County. Have the check made out to the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County. Our EIN number is 39-6096750.

• Make a gift from your Donor Advised Fund (DAF). You have already received a tax deduction for your gift, so this is as easy as deciding how much you would like to donate to the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County. Talk with your representative at the organization that holds your DAF for specifics on making this gift.

Another Strike Against Women’s Healthcare 

The Trump administration is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortion healthcare for women when necessary to stabilize their serious medical conditions. That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upended national abortion rights in the U.S. It was an effort by the Biden administration to preserve abortion healthcare for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications. The Biden administration had argued that hospitals — including ones in states with near-total bans — needed to provide emergency abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That law requires emergency rooms that receive Medicare dollars to provide an exam and stabilizing treatment for all patients. Nearly all emergency rooms in the U.S. rely on Medicare funds.“The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.

Support Local Democracy. Support Your League.

Your support is critical to help our nonpartisan grassroots organization reach voters play a critical role in democracy. It would not be possible to empower voters and defend democracy without your support. 

Thank you! LWVMC