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RELEASE: Nebraska’s Members of Congress vote to slash health care and food access to separate families

Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities, Press Release / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 07/03/2025

***For Immediate Release***July 3, 2025 Contact: Sierra Salgado PirigyiCommunications Director, Nebraska AppleseedOffice: 402-438-8853 ext 116sierrasp@neappleseed.org RELEASE: Nebraska’s Members of Congress vote to slash health care and food access to separate families The House of Representatives finalized passage of the budget reconciliation bill that will cause irreparable harm to Nebraskans for decades to come LINCOLN, NE […]

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TAKE ACTION: Final Passage Vote for Reconciliation Bill Soon

Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities / By Becca Brune / 07/01/2025

It’s possible there’s just one more vote before Congress could pass the devastating budget reconciliation bill that will rip away health care and food access from tens of thousands of Nebraskans, all while funding tax breaks for billionaires and sweeping deportations of everyday working people that will separate families. We know you’ve been sending emails,

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TAKE ACTION: Congress won’t stop hearing from us: NO CUTS TO OUR CARE!

Health Care / By Sarah Maresh / 06/27/2025

We want to thank the over 100 Nebraskans who showed up in the rain this week to a health care town hall we co-hosted with ACS CAN to tell our members of Congress — NO cuts to our care. From community members with Medicaid, to medical providers, to parents of children with disabilities who rely

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Tell the Senate NO to devastating cuts to health care & food programs to fund separating families & tax cuts for the wealthy!

Child Welfare, Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities / By Becca Brune / 06/24/2025

The Senate is getting closer to voting on their version of the House-passed budget reconciliation bill. This bill will devastate healthcare, food access, and other basic-needs programs in order to fund tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and sweeping deportations of longtime community members. As the Senate continues to debate their version of the bill,

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RELEASE: US House Passes Budget That Will Devastate Nebraska Communities

Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities, Press Release / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 05/22/2025

***For Immediate Release***May 22, 2025 Contact: Sierra Salgado PirigyiCommunications Director, Nebraska AppleseedOffice: 402-438-8853 ext 116sierrasp@neappleseed.org RELEASE: US House Passes Budget That Will Devastate Nebraska Communities Hundreds of thousands of Nebraskans’ access to healthcare and food is at risk LINCOLN, NE – This morning, the US House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation package that will

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House Budget Proposals Would Take Away Healthcare from Everyday Nebraskans

Health Care / By Sarah Maresh / 05/21/2025

Nebraskans care about their health and the health of their family, and Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act play a big role in ensuring that over 475,000 Nebraskans can access health care. But Congress is considering slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace coverage to give tax breaks to billionaires. The current proposed cuts

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Tell Congress NO to devastating cuts to health care & food programs to fund separating families & tax cuts for the wealthy!

Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities / By Becca Brune / 05/20/2025

The House of Representatives has recently advanced budget bills that will devastate healthcare, food access, and other basic-needs programs in order to fund tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and sweeping deportations of longtime community members. The House could vote in a matter of days on these historically devastating cuts that are the most extensive

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RELEASE: House Advances Historically Devastating Budget Reconciliation Bills

Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities, Press Release / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 05/15/2025

***For Immediate Release***May 15, 2025 Contact: Sierra Salgado PirigyiCommunications Director, Nebraska AppleseedOffice: (402) 438-8853 ext 116sierrasp@neappleseed.org RELEASE: House Committees Advance Historically Devastating Budget Reconciliation Bills LINCOLN, NE – Over the last two days, the US House of Representatives advanced reconciliation bills out of the Energy and Commerce and Agriculture Committees, making extreme cuts to Medicaid,

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Take Action to Protect Our Health Care TODAY!

Health Care / By Sarah Maresh / 04/28/2025

Despite the high public support for Medicaid and the public outcry against cuts to the program, Congress is still considering proposals that take away health care of everyday Americans just to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Over the next two weeks, Congress will be working to rapidly finalize their proposals that could gut Medicaid. In

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Congress PASSED a budget blueprint, what’s next?

Economic Justice, Health Care / By James Goddard / 04/23/2025

The House recently passed its budget, setting the stage for a regressive, harmful set of tax cuts for those who don’t need them, paid for by cuts to bedrock programs like Medicaid and SNAP. The reconciliation process itself can be confusing, and no bill has yet been written or passed. The real work to stop

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