This Week, Protect Our Care Held Events and Generated Coverage Across the Country, As a Lite-Brite, Mobile Billboard, and Projection on the RNC Put the Pressure on Washington Republicans As They Push This Bill Through the Senate
Protect Our Care supported partners’ actions across D.C., including a rally by SEIU members in front of the White House.
This week, Protect Our Care continued organizing advocates and everyday Americans around the country, as people across the political spectrum speak out against Trump and Congressional Republicans’ “Big, Ugly Bill”. While advocates and U.S. Representatives Don Davis (NC-01), Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), and Nanette Barragán (CA-44) headlined local events across the states, Protect Our Care organized a projection on the RNC, a lite-brite on the Senate steps, and a mobile billboard featuring ads targeting six key GOP Senators to blast Washington Republicans as they race to pass their massive health care cuts.
The GOP bill makes the largest health care cuts in history, slashing Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act in order to fund tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. Millions of Americans would lose life-saving coverage, including seniors, children, veterans, people with disabilities, workers who don’t get insurance through their jobs, and people who take care of their children or elderly parents. Not only will hardworking families lose their health care, but seniors will be forced to leave their nursing homes, people fighting cancer or addiction will lose access to critical treatment, and everyday Americans will face higher costs. Hundreds of rural hospitals would close, causing job cuts and hurting local economies. Poll after poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly disapprove of this bill. As it heads to the Senate floor in the next few days, the country is counting on GOP Senators like Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, and Josh Hawley to stand up for everyday people instead of billionaires, and reject such devastating health care cuts.
D.C. ACTIONS
Protect Our Care’s mobile billboard which circled Capital Hill and the Mall on Friday, June 27, featuring ads targeting six key Senate Republicans: Lisa Murkowski (AK), Dan Sullivan (AK), Susan Collins (ME), Thom Tillis (NC), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), and Jim Justice (WV).
A lite-brite held on the Senate steps of the Capital on Thursday, June 26, telling Washington Republicans “Hands Off Health Care,” as the GOP Senate rushes to pass their devastating bill.
On Wednesday, June 25, Protect Our Care projected images onto the Republican National Committee in D.C. calling out Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) for their comments dismissing concerned constituents, revealing what Republicans are really thinking: They don’t care that their scheme to give tax breaks to the wealthy by slashing health care will hurt people. Instead, people who lose Medicaid so the rich can get richer will have to “get over it,” according to Mitch McConnell.
STATE EVENTS AND COVERAGE
ALASKA
- Tuesday, June 24 – Medicaid Memorial Outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s Mat-Su Office with Alaska Caregivers, Mat-Su Residents and Mat-Su United for Progress
- Wasilla Frontiersman: Caregivers, families rally against proposed Medicaid Cuts in Wasilla
- Wednesday, June 25 – Medicaid Memorial Outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s Anchorage Office with Alaska Caregivers, Patients and Anchorage Residents
- Wednesday, June 25 – Medicaid Memorial Outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s Ketchikan Office with Alaska Caregivers and Ketchikan Residents
- Thursday, June 26 – Vigil at Senator Sullivan’s Office with Advocates in Soldotna
- Friday, June 27 – Vigil at Senator Sullivan’s Office with Advocates in Fairbanks
CALIFORNIA
- Friday, June 20 – Congressman David Valadao Accountability Save Our Hospital Event with Congresswoman Nanette Barragán and Health Care Advocates.
MAINE
- Friday, June 27 at 12PM ET – Medicaid Hospital Closure Event with State Representative Annie Graham.
MISSOURI
- Wednesday, June 25 – Rural Hospitals Event with State Senator Patty Smith and Health Care Advocates
- St. Louis Dispatch: Missouri health providers and advocates raise alarms ahead of vote on ‘big, beautiful’ bill
- Missouri Independent: Federal spending bill could be ‘devastating’ for Missouri Medicaid patients, rural hospitals
- KRCG (CBS Columbia): Missouri rural areas may experience hospital closures, economic impacts from Medicaid cuts
- Maryville Forum: Federal spending bill could be ‘devastating’ for Missouri Medicaid patients, rural hospitals
- Columbia Missourian: Proposed cuts could impact access to Medicaid and rural hospitals
- KRCG: Missouri officials sound the alarm on Medicaid cuts (also ran during the subsequent 10pm, 4am, and 6pm broadcasts)
NEW YORK
- Monday, June 23—SEIU “High Noon” Rallies at Hospitals Across the New York City Metro Area
- ABC (Broadcast): Thousands of health care workers in New York area to rally against Medicaid cuts
- ABC (Online): Thousands of health care workers in New York area to rally against Medicaid cuts
- NYN First Media: June 23, 2025
- Spectrum Noticias: Trabajadores de la salud protestan contra los cambios propuestos al Medicaid
- BK Reader: Brooklyn Healthcare Workers Rally Against Possible Medicaid Cuts
- Daily Voice: Thousands Of NY Hospital Workers Rally Against Health Care Cuts, Warn Of Closures
- Finger Lakes 1: Medicaid cuts spark protests as hospitals brace for impact
- QNS: Queens healthcare workers join statewide rally against federal Medicaid cuts, warn of hospital closures
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Wednesday, June 25 – Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander Joined Protect Our Care NH for Urgent Briefing on Threats to Medicaid and the ACA in New Hampshire
NORTH CAROLINA
- Wednesday, June 25 – Rural Hospitals Event with Congressman Don Davis, State Senator Natalie Murdock, and Dr. David Hill
- NC Newsline: NC Democratic lawmakers decry impact of GOP mega-bill on rural health care
- WRAZ: Congressman Davis and Senator Murdock to discuss possible cuts to Medicaid
- WNCT: Congressman Davis partners with Protect Our Care