{"id":42313,"date":"2025-07-02T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42313"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:58:10","slug":"trumps-big-ugly-bill-has-passed-the-senate-we-can-still-defeat-it-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/trumps-big-ugly-bill-has-passed-the-senate-we-can-still-defeat-it-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill has passed the Senate. We can still defeat it in the House."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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July 1, 2025 (info@indivisible.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember the night Trump\u2019s first reconciliation bill failed and we saved the Affordable Care Act?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do. It was July 28, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After months of nonstop calls, packed town halls, and rallies in blistering Arizona heat, every sign pointed to defeat. Republicans appeared to have the votes to kill Obamacare, and we had our \u201cwe lost\u201d email written, proofed, and ready to send. But we should have known better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because in those months, weeks, and days leading up to that vote, Indivisibles never stopped fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists like you showed up at Susan Collins\u2019 Fourth of July parades with signs and bullhorns. You stood outside John McCain\u2019s Phoenix office in 100-degree heat. You flooded the Senate with calls. And at 1:29am that July morning, McCain gave the most famous thumbs-down in Senate history — joining Collins and Murkowski to kill Trumpcare for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wasn\u2019t luck. That was power — your power.<\/strong> We fought until the gavel fell, and we changed the course of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why am I telling you this story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moments ago, almost 8 years to the day after we killed Trumpcare, the Senate passed Trump\u2019s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching, big ugly bill. Republicans are celebrating, and we understand if you\u2019re feeling angry and deflated. Lord knows, we\u2019re angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this fight isn\u2019t over. Not by a long shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve already moved the needle. You made Medicaid the defining issue of the debate. Senator Thom Tillis broke with Trump on national TV, called out the cruelty of this bill, and announced he wouldn\u2019t seek re-election rather than betray his state\u2019s Medicaid recipients. That didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum — it happened because North Carolinians showed up, called in, rallied at Hands Off events, and refused to let him look away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill now heads back to the House, where Republicans can only afford to lose three votes.<\/strong> It barely squeaked by with a single-vote margin the first time, and it\u2019s only gotten more divisive since:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called deficit hawks are fuming about the $3 trillion this adds to the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vulnerable \u201cmoderates\u201d understand that ripping health insurance away from 17 million people and kicking 11.8 million more off SNAP in order to shovel $4.5 trillion to the ultra-rich might not be a winning message back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who tells you this is a done deal doesn\u2019t know what the hell they\u2019re talking about.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it an uphill battle? Yes. But so was 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So no matter where you live or who your Member of Congress is, here\u2019s what you can do right now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If You Live in a Republican House District

Flood the phones.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Tell your representative that a vote for this bill is a vote to destroy lives — and you\u2019ll remember it. Then,\u00a0send an email to drive home the point<\/a>

\u00a0Fight back with friends.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re stronger together, so encourage your friends and family to take action to stop the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Sign up and get access to Empower, an app that has everything you need to text your circle about the Republican tax scam: ready-to-use scripts and messages with links they can use to call their own Members of Congress

\u00a0Help spread the word about what\u2019s in this bill using our social toolkit.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0When people know what\u2019s in the bill, they overwhelmingly oppose it — but a lot of people still aren\u2019t aware of the details. You can help change that.

Forward this email.<\/strong>\u00a0Five texts. One group chat. You never know who\u2019s in a swing district until you ask.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
If You Don\u2019t Live in a Republican District

\u00a0Call folks whose GOP representatives are flippable.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0If you can spare 1-2 hours for the fight, join a phonebank to call people in vulnerable Republican districts, sound the alarm about this bill, and patch them through to let their GOP representative have it.\u00a0Anyone can join a phonebank; you just need a phone and a computer.<\/em>

\u00a0Fight back with friends.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re stronger together, so encourage your friends and family to take action to stop the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Sign up and get access to Empower, an app that has everything you need to text your circle about the Republican tax scam: ready-to-use scripts and messages with links they can use to call their own Members of Congress

\u00a0Help spread the word about what\u2019s in this bill using our social toolkit.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0When people know what\u2019s in the bill, they overwhelmingly oppose it — but a lot of people still aren\u2019t aware of the details. You can help change that.

Forward this email.<\/strong>\u00a0Think your friends in swing districts already know? Don\u2019t risk it. Hit forward.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We already changed the trajectory of this fight in the Senate. We may have come up a vote short, but all the pressure we\u2019ve built is now being felt by the House.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will we win? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is what movements do. We rise when they expect us to fold. We organize through the setbacks. And we win the fights they say are impossible — because we refuse to give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You ready?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s finish what we started.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In solidarity,
Sarah Dohl
Co-founder, Chief Campaigns Officer, Indivisible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. This isn\u2019t a fundraising email — calls and door knocks and district office visits matter more to us than dollars. But if you\u2019ve got cash itching for a fight, we\u2019ll put it to good use: turbo-charging expanded House phonebanks to patch folks through to their Members of Congress, fueling door-knocks in key House districts, and plastering billboards in key states and districts that scream, \u201cYou voted to rip away our healthcare.\u201d<\/em> If you want to chip in, click here (and thank you in advance).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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