Protect Our Care Launches A Mobile Billboard on Capitol Hill With Ads Featuring Steve Bannon Cautioning Republicans: “A Lot Of MAGAs [Are] On Medicaid.”
Washington, D.C. — Today, Protect Our Care is launching a mobile billboard as the House is set to gut Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations. The mobile billboard will circle Capitol Hill from 11 AM to 7 PM, displaying new ads highlighting widespread opposition to the Republican plan to slash $880 billion to Medicaid. The ads, first reported in The Hill, feature Trump loyalist and MAGA cheerleader Steve Bannon, warning Republicans to be “careful” because there are “a lot of MAGAs on Medicaid.” They also feature outraged constituents attending town halls and urging their representatives to protect their health care. The mobile billboard calls on Republicans to listen to their constituents and abandon their scheme to cut Medicaid.
If the House approves this budget, Republicans will be responsible for the largest Medicaid cuts in history. Gutting Medicaid threatens to rip health care away from more than 70 million Americans, including children, seniors in nursing homes, veterans, people fighting cancer, and working families. Medicaid not only supports the health and well-being of its enrollees, it strengthens local economies, sustains rural hospitals and community health centers, ensures access to critical long-term care services, and more. Learn more here.
“Republicans are facing a clear choice: stand up for their constituents or stand up for the wealthy and big corporations,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Republicans’ budget proposal jeopardizes coverage for over 70 million Americans – that means health care for millions of children, seniors in nursing homes, people with disabilities, cancer patients, veterans, and more. If Republicans get their way, there won’t be a community in this nation that isn’t impacted. We’re calling on Republicans to protect Medicaid and put an end to the war on health care.”
The ads target the following districts: David Schweikert (AZ-01), David Valadao (CA-22), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), Rob Bresnahan (PA-08), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04).
Sample Mobile Billboard/Digital Ad Script for AZ-01:
Fox News Host: “In the bill the Republicans are putting forward, there will be an eight-hundred-eighty billion dollar cut to Medicaid.”
Narrator: Congress wants to cut Medicaid….
Woman at Town Hall: “I’m asking you today, please do not cut the federal Medicaid budget.”
Narrator: ….and people aren’t happy about it.
Man at Town Hall: “You don’t get to take our healthcare – get off me! You don’t get to do this to us!”
Steve Bannon: “Medicaid you’ve got to be careful, cause a lot of MAGA’s on Medicaid. I’m telling you. If you don’t think so, you’re dead wrong.”
Narrator: Call Congressman Schweikert and tell him to stop these cuts to Medicaid.