In just over 40 hours, the House of Representatives will vote to take health care away from millions of Americans. This Thursday—seven years (to the day!) after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the House will vote on Trumpcare, their “plan” to repeal and replace the ACA.

The Republican plan will cause 24 million people to lose their health insurance by 2026 and increase average health costs in every state. Find out how Trumpcare would impact your community in this interactive map. This vote is far from a sure thing! More than two dozen House Republicans have said they are considering voting against the bill, which is all we need to defeat Trumpcare.

Help us defeat the bill:

1. Use this toolkit with numbers and shareables, sample tweets, and sample call scripts to contact the representatives we need to vote no. Know anyone who lives in the first seven districts listed? Share this toolkit with them now!

2. Share these stories from people who depend on the ACA.

3. Rally to protect the ACA and the millions whose lives depend on it on March 23 by joining this DC rally or find an event near you at ResistanceNearMe.org.

4. Help us protect health care and other progressive policies with a contribution. By donating $20, we’ll send you a resistance car magnet.

Thank you!

Stop Trump from slashing the EPA’s budget! Tell your representatives to protect clean air and water by rejecting budget cuts to the EPA. Donald Trump’s proposed budget is a disaster for the Environmental Protection Agency and the environment. Under Trump’s plan, the EPA’s budget would be cut by almost a third, which would leave the agency hobbled and unable to protect the public from dangerous pollution. Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, has called for an aggressive rollback of environmental protections and has falsely stated that carbon dioxide is not a primary cause of global warming. He’s not likely to defend the agency’s budget, so that means it’s on us. Trump’s budget has to be approved by Congress. Contact your representatives today and tell them to protect the EPA’s funding and keep our communities safe! Without proper resources, the EPA will have difficulty enforcing basic rules to protect our communities, which could include… Clean air standards that prevent choking smog and limit the amount of toxic chemicals released into the air. Clean water protections to keep toxic chemicals out of drinking water. The Clean Power Plan, which limits climate-change-causing emissions and carbon pollution. And many more programs that protect our planet and communities from harm. Tell Congress to stand up for the EPA and protect clean air and water! Scaling back the EPA benefits big polluters in fossil fuel and other industries, at the expense of our health. Without the EPA’s protection from pollution, we could see more asthma attacks, heart attacks, and even premature deaths. We CANNOT allow Trump and Pruitt to sacrifice our communities. We must make sure this budget isn’t passed! For our future, Mary Nicol Climate campaigner, Greenpeace US P.S. Trump’s vision for our future is grim, but he can’t pass it by himself. Tell your representatives to reject any plans that will put polluters over people!

BossFeed Briefing for March 20, 2017.

Last week the Trump Administration proposed a Federal budget which would slash the Department of Labor by 21%, including cuts to job training and health & safety efforts. Wednesday is this year’s annual Starbucks shareholder meeting; last year’s meeting brought attention to the issue of unpredictable and unstable work schedules.

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If they could turn back time

Three things to know this week:

 Politics is weird. A recent poll from Fox News of all places finds that the most popular politician in the country is Bernie Sanders, who couldn’t get a major-party Presidential nomination last year. And the most popular organization polled is Planned Parenthood, which could be barred by Congress from receiving Federal reimbursements for providing healthcare to women.

 Life comes at you fast (food). Early this year the IHOP twitter account briefly offered some harsh commentary on the Clinton campaign, and this past week the official McDonald’s account tweeted and then pinned an anti-Trump post. Meanwhile, workers at a Canadian Wendy’s voted to form a union.

 Two months is still not enough. But it’s better than three days, which is how much time off one new father got with his first child before having to return to work. After changing jobs, he got almost two months with his second child, and it had an enormous impact on his entire family.

 

Two things to ask:

 What if what you don’t know can hurt you? The US Department of Labor has stopped publicizing fines against companies which violate safety laws. They also stopped enforcing a policy which mandated timely electronic filing of accident data.  

 Are baristas’ babies worth less? That’s what Ohio barista Kristen Picciolo asks in a guest editorial in the Stranger about Starbucks’ new parental leave policy. The policy provides dramatically less parental leave to baristas than it does to corporate executives.

 

And one thing that’s worth a closer look:

 “We tell them the turban is a crown.” Sikh immigrant workers first arrived in the US more than a hundred years ago, fleeing British colonial Punjab for jobs in the fields of California and in the lumber mills of the Pacific Northwest. Spend some time with this piece in The Establishment digging in to Sikh workers’ experience of xenophobic violence in the US, including a riot in Bellingham in 1905 and a shooting in Kent in 2017. Then go deeper with a visit to the Sikh Foundation and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

 

Read this far?

 Consider yourself briefed, boss.

The recent slew of administration attacks on protections for clean water, clean air, and food and worker safety could send America back to a time of unchecked pollution.

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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s hearing began today, and Democrats made clear that they would be asking tough questions. Republicans, for their part, encouraged Gorsuch to avoid giving complete answers, and Senator Ted Cruz, creator of many spectacles, dismissively called the hearing a “spectacle.” Throughout the week we are going to send you regular hearing updates — because this so-called “spectacle” is critically important for anyone who cares about our rights and the future of the Supreme Court. Just this weekend news broke that Gorsuch actually told a law school class that employers should ask women candidates about their pregnancy plans so that women don’t “milk” their companies for maternity benefits and then leave. This is an appalling position for a potential Supreme Court justice to take, and today Senator Dick Durbin made it clear that he would press Gorsuch for an explanation. Another worker’s rights case, the case of Alphonse Maddin, came up repeatedly today, for good reason. Watch our video of PFAW’s CiCi Battle talking about the harrowing details, and share it on your social media feeds. This is not a case to be blithely dismissed by Republican senators or groups spending millions to confirm Gorsuch — a real person’s life was put on the line, but Gorsuch preferred to narrowly interpret a law in the corporation’s favor. Gorsuch also brushed away his own record of siding against the rights of average Americans by citing his mentor Antonin Scalia’s remark that as a judge “you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach.” Unfortunately for Gorsuch, his record demonstrates a clear pattern of consistently twisting the law to reach pro-corporate, anti-worker and anti-consumer conclusions. Watch our video recapping Maddin’s story of corporate negligence and see for yourself why Gorsuch should not be the next Supreme Court justice>>