Key Documents From Protect Our Care in May

📊Trackers

• Health Care Sabotage Tracker
• Hospital Crisis Watch
• Premium Disaster Watch

🚨Report: GOP Medicaid Cuts Wreak Havoc Across All 50 States
🚨Joint Report with Climate Power: Trump’s Pro-Polluter Agenda is Making Americans Sicker While He Increases Health Care Costs
📺Press Call: “Cruelty With a Price Tag”: State Leaders, Medicaid Experts Expose How GOP Medicaid Cuts Are Wreaking Havoc on State Health Care Systems

This month, poll after poll highlighted just how unpopular the Trump administration’s health care agenda is…

• Trump Reaches Record Level of Disapproval on Health Care — And We Know Why
• New KFF Poll: Health Care Costs Take Center Stage For MAHA Voters
• LATEST POLLS: Health Care Costs Will Be Trump and Republicans’ Undoing In November 

…and it’s no surprise as millions of Americans are losing their coverage, costs are skyrocketing, and care is disappearing after Trump and Republicans made the largest health care cuts in history and ripped away health care tax credits.

• NEW NUMBERS: Millions of People Are Dropping Coverage Amid GOP Premium Hikes
• HEADLINES: KFF Documents the Damage of Republicans’ Health Care Catastrophe as Millions Lose Coverage
• STATEMENT: Trump Holds Maternal Health Care Event After Gutting Women’s Health Care and Shuttering Maternity Wards

Yet Trump doesn’t seem to care as he told reporters, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.”

• SHOT/CHASER: Trump Shrugs Off Americans Crushed By Rising Health Care Costs, “I Don’t Think About Americans’ Financial Situation”

Fact Sheets

• This Mental Health Awareness Month, Trump and Republicans Are Waging a Deadly War on Care
• Trump and Republicans Are Jeopardizing Health Care and Hiking Costs for Millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Public Health

Headlines across the country have focused on the dual outbreaks of Hantavirus and Ebola all month long. The Trump administration has been a revolving door of public health officials, with multiple top positions left vacant for months on end, leaving the United States and the world at higher risk. 

• Ill-Prepared, Less Safe: Trump Gutted USAID and Exited WHO, Now Administration Behind The Curve On Ebola Global Health Emergency
• No Permanent FDA, CDC Heads or Surgeon General Is Unprecedented and Untenable
• Trump HHS: Ebola Crisis The Perfect Time to Push Out Head Of NIH’s Infectious Disease Institute and Worsen The Leadership Vacuum
• SHOT/CHASER: RFK Jr. on Ebola, hantavirus: ‘Yeah, we’re working on it’ (with 80% fewer officials)

Additionally:

• Statement: Yet More HHS Chaos: RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Sidelined Preventive Services Task Force, Risking Even Higher Health Costs
• Statement: $5M Check to Trump Super PAC From Big Tobacco Buys Trump’s Personal Corrupt Touch On Flavored Vapes
• Statement: Disposable Political Pawns: Trump, RFK Jr. Sell Out MAHA Yet Again By Scrapping Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water