{"id":284322,"date":"2025-10-07T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284322\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:22:14","slug":"faces-of-the-gop-health-care-shutdown-protect-our-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284322\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of the GOP Health Care Shutdown \u2014 Protect Our Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have shut down the government because they want to keep destroying our health care. Republicans don\u2019t care that people are already struggling to get by and forced to choose between paying for life-saving medications and putting food on the table. Instead, the GOP is gutting tax credits for millions of hardworking families, ripping away critical funding from rural hospitals, and throwing the entire health care system into chaos. Their policies will worsen care and drive up costs for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here is just one story of the everyday Americans caught in the crosshairs of the GOP health care crisis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsPRAsset_3567394_188585_dbda10ba-1667-474d-9d03-bdcbba09fd51_0.jpg\" alt=\"Faces of Shutdown Graphic_2-02.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"938\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsPRAsset_3567394_188585_dbda10ba-1667-474d-9d03-bdcbba09fd51_0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Democrats have made clear that they are ready to vote for bipartisan budgets that stop this pain, but won\u2019t be complicit in hurting the American people. Every single day that Republicans refuse to negotiate a path forward, Protect Our Care will shine a light on the real lives being harmed by this reckless crusade led by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress. Read Protect Our Care\u2019s report on Republicans\u2019 assault on health care <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectourcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Health_Care_Shutdown.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans have shut down the government because they want to keep destroying our health care. Republicans don\u2019t care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,98499,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-284322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-shutdown","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115333808192375642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}