House Democrats “Grow a Spine” Challenge

TAKE ACTION NOW TO CALL ON HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO STAY STRONG ON HEALTHCARE PROTECTIONS IN UPCOMING CR VOTE

Late Sunday night enough Senate Democrats agreed to a deal with Senate Republicans to reopen the government. This deal did not address the major concerns Defend Public Health has been advocating about. It did not even temporarily restore the insurance premium credits – the central Democratic demand. It instead accepted an up or down vote in December on a Democratic bill that would address the insurance premium issue with no promise of any Republican votes in support nor any guarantee that the House would take up the Democratic bill.

This is a major betrayal and reversal of the strength Democrats had shown in last week’s elections. Now the bill will go to the House of Representatives and Democrats in the House have a chance to say: “NO!”

The House will be voting on the continuing resolution later this week. Depending on how many defections there are from the Republican party, if Democrats hold firm they could stop this deal.

Click Here to Tell House Dems to Remain Strong

The Senate agreement is a bad one. The agreement extends the operations of the federal government on a continuing resolution until the end of January but does NOT provide any guardrails against President Trump or OMB Director Vought cavalierly ignoring congressional intent – as they have done all year.

Members of the Democratic House Caucus need to hear immediately how you feel about this agreement so they stand firm for the principles that began this fight.

Take action and write a letter to your Democratic members of the House of Representatives here!