Republicans want to cut your healthcare so badly, they'll shut down the government to do it. [View all]

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Suggestions on the messages to hammer from Tamara Massengale Miro @UnmuteAlabama

https://sez.us/l/4nt9r15k

How I’m Talking About the Shutdown

The news makes it sound like a procedural fight in Washington. Meetings canceled. Deadlines looming. Continuing resolutions. Yawn.

Here’s what I’m saying: Republicans want to cut health care so badly, they’re willing to shut down the government to get it done.

This isn’t about Beltway squabbles. It’s about whether families can afford to see a doctor.

Medicaid is facing the biggest cuts in U.S. history.

ACA tax credits are expiring, which means premiums could jump by an average of 75%.

Medicare is on the chopping block for more than $500 billion in cuts.

Hospitals, rural clinics, even children’s cancer research could lose funding.

When you talk about the shutdown, don’t start with politics. Start with people.

This shutdown isn’t just “government dysfunction.” It’s a health care crisis manufactured on purpose.

👉 The “how” matters.

Say “Republicans want to cut your health care so badly…” instead of “Democrats and Republicans can’t agree.”

Say “millions of families will lose coverage” instead of “funding lapses.”

Say “research into children’s cancer will stop” instead of “budget line items.”

If we lead with the human cost, the politics takes care of itself.

And an additional suggestion from Anat Shenker Osario (Freedom Over Fascism toolkit):

Refuse to frame it as a government shutdown fight. Frame it as refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the people.

I think that message can be pulled in by saying things like:

We refuse to be accomplices in the biggest cuts to Medicaid in U.S. history.

We refuse to be accomplices to increasing healthcare premiums for 75 million Americans by an average of 75%.

We will not be accomplices to the Republican Congress's cowardly refusal to demand that Trump stop breaking his oath of office and carry out the laws passed by Congress.