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Thank you. That is a very helpful guide, and makes clear that we have opportunities at multiple steps to be vocal.
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Thank you so much - I didn’t know that there are this many layers in the process. Thank you for taking the time.
And for making the calls, please use this 5 Calls app! It made it so easy to call, and I made it my rule to call every day: itunes.apple.com/us/app/myapp...
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They don't realize, when Medicaid is cut, the health care system collapses. Mass closure of hospitals, doctor's offices, nursing homes, and the like. All going to be gone.
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I hope people realize that SNAP and Medicaid cuts are also the test balloons for Social Security, Medicare, ACA, and VA cuts. If the Republicans get those through, they will go after the next four next.
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You can read my explainer on the reconciliation process here: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
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This will be a very hard fight, but it's worth it, because people matter.
We owe it to our family members who rely on Medicaid and SNAP. We owe it to our friends. We owe it to our neighbors. We owe it to the people we'll never meet.
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Tell them you don't want any Medicaid cuts. Tell them you don't want any SNAP cuts. Tell them you don't want huge tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell them why it matters to you. *Make them* hear WHY Medicaid matters to you. That is how we convinced Murkowski, Collins, and McCain to vote no.
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The next most important thing you can do is call your GOP member's office every single day. When I worked in the Senate, in every single weekly all-staff meeting, we went over the phone calls we'd received.
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The single most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is show up at a town hall w/ your GOP member and talk to them face to face.
Heroes like @indivisible.org helped organize last time. People drove for hours to spend just a few minutes talking to their members. But we saved lives because of it.
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If we fail, then the House and the Senate need to pass identical versions. The House can just take up the Senate version and pass it, or they can go to conference and both try to pass what comes out of conference.
This is the next place where we can stop them.
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If we fail, then there are 20 hours of debate, after which we move to vote-o-rama. At that point, they consider amendments until there are no more amendments or everyone agrees to move to final passage.
This is the next place to stop them, and it's where we finally stopped them on ACA repeal.
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If we fail, it goes over to the Senate. If the House went through the full committee process, the Senate can slap on a full substitute and go straight to the floor.
The Senate will then move to proceed to the bill. This is filibuster-proof.
This is the next place where we can stop them.
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If we fail, then it goes to the House floor for passage.
This is the next place where we can stop them. When they tried to repeal the ACA in 2017, we initially stopped them here in March of 2017 before they eventually passed it through the full chamber in May 2017.
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If we fail, then after that, all the various committees' bills as amended go to the Budget Committee for markup.
This is the next place where we can stop them.
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Each committee then marks up that legislation, where only the members of the committee can vote on it. This will be the first time we get the full details on what they're trying to do. They won't be able to pretend they aren't cutting Medicaid anymore.
This is the next place where we can stop them.
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So, each committee will write legislation that adheres to the instructions set in the budget resolution. Here's what the House budget resolution calls for:
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If we fail, then after that, committees can begin writing legislation. Usually the House goes first. If taxes are involved, the House must go first. At least one chamber needs to go through the full committee markup. In this thread, I'm going to assume that's the House.
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So, the next step is for the House and Senate to agree to an identical budget resolution. The Senate passed a very different version. It called for the same SNAP cuts but much smaller Medicaid cuts - and no tax cuts.
This is the next place where we can stop them.
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This whole process is about passing a reconciliation bill. What's special about reconciliation? In the Senate, it can avoid a filibuster - as long as it follows certain rules. That means that, as long as Republicans stick together, they can enact this legislation even if all Democrats vote no.