Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Wednesday 11/15 Call to Action

Wednesday.
Sorry, (not sorry). I am going to talk about it again. The House is planning on voting on their version of the tax bill tomorrow (Thursday) and if it passes the Senate will vote after Thanksgiving. We have to do this now.
1. HR 1 The Tax Bill
The Senate has added repeal of the individual health insurance mandate to their version the tax bill. What does this mean?
The number of American without insurance will increase by 13 million
Premiums on individual plans will go up 10%
Increased uncertainty in the market and possible collapse of the ACA
Why are they doing this? Repealing the mandate frees up $300 billion that the government can use to pay for their tax cuts for the rich since there will be fewer people under the insurance umbrella needed subsidies. These people may still get sick, they just won’t have insurance to help them.
There is word that Senate may try to pass an anemic version of the Alexander-Murry (remember that bipartisan attempt at healthcare?) after the tax bill to appease members like Susan Collins and garner enough votes to pass the tax bill.
Senate also announced that individual tax cuts in their new tax plan will be temporary and will expire in 2025. Corporate tax cuts, which reduce the rate from 35-20% will be permanent.
Does this make you steaming mad? It should. Call your members of Congress!
2. DACA
Speaker Paul Ryan announced Tuesday that protections for individuals that fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) would not be included in the House spending bill. The House is punting this issue down the road, but there is not much road left. They have until March 2018 to get this figured out. Give your members of Congress a call and nudge them into action.
Here’s some more information and a calling script from the Indivisible Guide. https://www.indivisible.org/…/tell-senator-defend-daca-sup…/
3. Donald Trump Jr.
Here’s a good one from the Rogan’s List to round out our calls to action today. The news has become so surreal!
The Atlantic broke the story about Donald Trump Jr. having had contacts with Wikileaks during the campaign: https://www.theatlantic.com/…/the-secret-correspond…/545738/ We can start to imagine what information Special Counsel Robert Mueller might have at this time. Let’s stay in touch with our MoC about the need to protect Mueller’s work.
Klobuchar-202-224-3244
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/
Hey there? Do you reside in CD2? Check out these great web pages. Chock full of great resources and information.
mn02progressiveactionnetwork.com
mn02congresswatch.org
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