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Under the Threat of Another Government Shutdown
Republicans in the House seem willing to risk a government shutdown to cut essential programs for family planning, maternal health and equality in the workplace.
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One of the spending cuts House Republicans proposed in the form of the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, was the total elimination of the Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, an agency created in 1920 to improve women’s working conditions. The Women’s Bureau conducts research on the issues that face women in the workplace and supports programs that fight sexual harassment, provide training for women in male-dominated industries, and promote paid leave and progressive childcare policies.
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During a Capitol reception celebrating 50 years of Ms. this year, DeLauro said that, at the beginning of her career, she and her colleagues “talked about child tax credit or talked about paid family leave [and] talked about equal pay for equal work. We were the crazy aunts in the attic, you know?”
Now, she said, “these issues are front and center and making a difference” to voters.
But, at the same time, she said, House Republicans are trying to abolish the Women’s Bureau, they’re also:
-attempting “a $75-million cut to the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour division, cutting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission”;
pulling $800 million [that] fund maternal and child health” from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), “eliminating funding for Title X [family planning]”; and
-“reversing the FDA decision on mifepristone”
https://msmagazine.com/2023/11/13/government-shutdown-republicans/
…………………….
What did we ever do to these Republicans to have them hate us so?
My guess, they are afraid of us.
No matter, We Shall Shine.
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One of the spending cuts House Republicans proposed in the form of the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, was the total elimination of the Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, an agency created in 1920 to improve women’s working conditions. The Women’s Bureau conducts research on the issues that face women in the workplace and supports programs that fight sexual harassment, provide training for women in male-dominated industries, and promote paid leave and progressive childcare policies.
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During a Capitol reception celebrating 50 years of Ms. this year, DeLauro said that, at the beginning of her career, she and her colleagues “talked about child tax credit or talked about paid family leave [and] talked about equal pay for equal work. We were the crazy aunts in the attic, you know?”
Now, she said, “these issues are front and center and making a difference” to voters.
But, at the same time, she said, House Republicans are trying to abolish the Women’s Bureau, they’re also:
-attempting “a $75-million cut to the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour division, cutting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission”;
pulling $800 million [that] fund maternal and child health” from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), “eliminating funding for Title X [family planning]”; and
-“reversing the FDA decision on mifepristone”
https://msmagazine.com/2023/11/13/government-shutdown-republicans/
…………………….
What did we ever do to these Republicans to have them hate us so?
My guess, they are afraid of us.
No matter, We Shall Shine.
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Beginning to feel invisible here. 
