2025 third_quarter Filing

NETWORK strongly opposes the FY 25 Budget Reconciliation Act because it will cut $880 Billion in Medicaid funding and introduce structural changes to the program that will make it harder for children, pregnant women, low income workers, and the elderly to access healthcare. These cuts are included to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and to increase the detention and deportation of immigrants. It is immoral. NETWORK strongly opposed H.R 1 for many reason including cutting 1 trillion dollars from our nation's healthcare programs including MEDICAID, the Affordable Care Act and ultimately Medicare due to debt triggers. We expect a 500 billion cut to the program. NETWORK strongly supports efforts to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits for 24 million Americans. Without support, at minimum, 5 million people will lose coverage for 2025.

NETWORK endorsed and strongly supports the Raise the Wage Act which lifts the minimum wage in America and ends the substandard tipped wage as well. NETWORK endorsed and supports FAMILY Act would create for the first time the permanent right to paid, job-protected comprehensive family and medical leave for all American workers. NETWORK endorsed and supports Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963, help eliminate the gender wage gap, and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable. NETWORK endorsed and supports H.R. 20, the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a comprehensive proposal to protect workers right to come together and bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces. NETWORK supports HR 2550 which would reverse the Trump EO stripping a million federal workers of the right to bargain.