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Dear Supporter,

I’m traveling back from D.C. as I write this, and the U.S. Senate is only days away from voting on devastating cuts that would take away Medicaid healthcare coverage from 129,616 Oregonians with disabilities and end Affordable Care Act healthcare coverage for 36,220 Oregonians.

This Administration’s "One Big Beautiful Bill” is not “beautiful,” it’s brutal—it cuts $1 trillion from anti-poverty programs that provide food assistance to children, healthcare to people with disabilities, and so many other important programs. Our community will pay a heavy price if it passes. We need your help today to stop it.

What This Bill Would Do to Oregon

If passed, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would cut critical and cost-effective programs that support Oregonians with disabilities by:

• Slashing Medicaid by $800 billion, stripping life-saving healthcare from 129,616 people with disabilities on the Medicaid's Oregon Health Plan.
   
• Gutting the Medicaid expansion program created in the Affordable Care Act, depriving 36,220 people of health insurance. The Medicaid expansion population includes adults without dependents as well as many parents and people with disabilities or chronic conditions who do not receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) .
   
• Imposing new requirements for Medicaid that are aimed at making the program more difficult to navigate so people lose health insurance coverage—policies that proved challenging for Arkansas and Georgia to operationalize and led to 18,000 people losing coverage in Arkansas, without increasing employment.
   
• Cutting Supplemental Food Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $230 billion. In Oregon, this would mean that a modestly priced meal would cost 71% more than the maximum SNAP benefit.

Contact your Senators right now to protect our community's lives >

Take Action Now

Please contact your Senators immediately by calling (202) 224-3121 or by using this form:

• Tell them to vote NO on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
• Reject cuts that harm Oregon's disability community.
• Protect programs that save money and save lives.

These aren't just budget cuts—they're attacks on us and on our loved ones. Thank you for calling or emailing your Senators today.

P.S. Every donation—$5, $10, $100 or more—makes a difference. Thank for your helping us continue to protect and defend the rights of Oregonians with disabilities!

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