***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 2025, AT 1:30 PM ET***
Protect Our Care To Host Press Call Alongside Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Coalition on Human Needs, Community Catalyst, Families USA, NAACP, National Council for Negro Women, National Urban League, and UnidosUS
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 1:30 PM ET, U.S. Representative Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and Reps. Glenn Ivey (MD-04), Jill Tokuda (HI-02), and Nikema Williams (GA-05) will join Protect Our Care and leading civil rights and health advocacy organizations to highlight the devastating impacts of the GOP health care crisis on communities of color.
Since taking power, President Trump and the Republican Majority have launched an unrelenting assault on the nation’s health care system and thrown our entire health care system into chaos, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Now, they’re holding our government hostage to rip away tax credits from millions of people, causing their premiums to more than double.
These health care cuts are hitting millions of working and middle-income Americans – including those in the African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities – especially hard. Speakers will call on Trump and Republicans in Congress to end their health care crisis and stop putting tax breaks for billionaires over health care for working people.
PRESS CALL
WHO:
Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Rep. Glenn Ivey (MD-04)
Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-02)
Rep. Nikema Williams (GA-05)
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (NY-07)
Shavon Arline-Bradley, President and CEO, National Council of Negro Women
Joi Chaney, Policy and Health Equity Senior Advisor, Protect Our Care
Linda Goler Blount, MPH, President and CEO, Community Catalyst
Juliet K. Choi, President and CEO, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of National Urban League
Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
Anthony Wright, Executive Director, Families USA
Janet Murgía, President and CEO, UnidosUS
Victoria Lopez, Florida teenage health care advocate
Dr. Annelys Roque Gardner, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division on Infectious Diseases, Emory University
Justin Carter, Ohioan who relies on ACA tax credits
WHAT: Virtual Press Conference
WHEN: Tuesday, October 21 at 1:30 PM ET