Booker and Jeffries Sit in Capitol Steps to Oppose Medicaid Cuts

Sen. Cory Booker and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Are Holding a Livestreamed sit-in on the Capitol Steps in Protest of a Fordcoming Republic Budget they say Will Gut Medicaid-A Federal and State Program that Helps to Cover Medical Costs For People with Income AS Well Asd Children and Adults.

The sit-in Began at Sunrise, Shortly after 6 AM, and Booker and Jeffries Promised to Stay for “A good number of hours.”

“We are here on a Sunday Morning … to have a conversation gr” in Our Faith Traditions – and not Just Ours But the Nation's as a Who – To Talk About What We Think is a Moment of Moral Urgense that We are in That Moment, “Booker Said at the Beginning of the Event.

The sit-in is a protest of a republican budget budget that will likely seek to cut on public health insurance program to compensated for the cost of president trump's taxes for the wealthy since the Gop Plans to extend the tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Committees in Congress are Expected to start working on the budget this week after budget resolution was adopted by Both Houses. The Resolution Instructs The House Energy and Commerce Committee to Cut $ 880 Billion Over the Next Decade. The Biggest Targets For Those Cuts Are Medicare and Medicaid.

Republicans Plan to Move the Budget Forward Through Budget Reconciliation, Which Will Let Them Pass It Without Any Democratic Support. Gop Leadership Has Said They Hope To Have Trump Sign the Bill by Memorial Day. Amag Their Ideas to Cut Federal Spending is a Plan to Add Work Requirements for Medicoid Beneficiaries, Something Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson Has Endered.

“It's Common Sense,” Johnson Said. “Little Things like that make a big different not Only in the budgeting process but in the morale of the people. You know, work is good for you. You Find Dignity in work.”

One Study by the Urban Institute Found That Adding Work Requirements Cound Cut Some 5 Million People From The Program. The Vast Majority of Medicaid containers – 92 percent – Are Almedy Either Working, Going to School, or Caretaking for Others, An Analysis by Health Policy Research Firm Kff Found.

Earlier This Month, Twelve House Republics Signed A Letter to Their Leadership Express Their Opposition to Medicaid Cuts. They Wrote That They “Will Not Support A Final Reconciliazion Bill That Includes Any Reduction in Medicaid Coverage for Vulnerable Populations.”

“As we prepare to as a back into Session Tomorrow, this is a time to choose,” Jeffries Said. “We're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that republicans are trying to jam down the Throats of the American People.”

“That Bill, We Believe, Presenti One of the Greatest Moral Threts to Our Country That We've Seen in Terms of What It Will Do To Provide Food For the Hungry, Care for the Elderly, Services for the Disabled, Healthcare For the Sick, and More,” Booker Said.

“Martin Luther King Said Budgets Are Moral Documents, and That's the Spirit We Come here This morning, Hoping to Have A Larger Conversation,” Headed.

Booker and Jeffries Invited Everyday Americans to Sit with them at the Capitol to Share Their Stories. Over the Five Hours the Live Stream Has Been Running, they have Been Joined by Lawmakers – Including Democratic Sens. Chris Coons and Angela Alsobrooks and Reps. Gil Cisneros and Gabe Amo – AS Well As Americans, Including Families Who Receive and Rely On Conduct Benefits and Tourists Visiting the Capitol.

Other Leaders Spoke at the sit-in, Including Maya Wiley, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Who Spoke About the Civil Rights Movement's Dedication to Ending Poverty, and National Education Association President Becky Pringle Who Spoke About The Trump Administration Perpetua Perpetuing “The” The Greatest Assault on Public Education That We've Ever Seen in this Country. ”

“One of the resons We Wanted to be here on the Capitol Steps Was To Give the American People An opportunity to Tell Their Stories,” Jeffries Said. “A budget is not cold numbers on a piece of paper. It reply our values, and it has deep implications for the American people. This particle budget – it will hurt man, it will hurt families, it will have veterans. Some of our colleagues Who serves in the capitol. Talk a Lot About Family Values, but that's Rhetoric If at the Same Time You're talking about Family Values, You're Undermining American Families.

“We're here to Get Into good good Trouble on Behalf of the American People,” Jeffries Said Later in the Broadcast.

“Necessary Trouble,” Aided Booker.