{"id":95926,"date":"2025-07-27T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95926\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:24:15","slug":"families-first-rally-draws-those-angered-by-cuts-in-trump-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95926\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Families First’ rally draws those angered by cuts in Trump budget bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"San<\/a>The San Diego County Administration Building is shown on Jan. 12, 2021. (Photo by Zo\u00eb Meyers\/inewsource)<\/p>\n

Roughly 150 people Saturday spoke out against government cuts to Medicaid during a downtown rally , a union spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

Protesters at the event, called \u201cFamilies First<\/a> National Day of Action,\u201d demanded that Congress repeal the cuts and \u201chold billionaires accountable.\u201d The San Diego event was one of more than 200 scheduled across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking families must come first,\u201d said Renee Salda\u00f1a, an official with Service Employees International Union and United Healthcare Workers. \u201cThis crisis is statewide and worsening, driven by a federal budget that prioritizes corporate profits over people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salda\u00f1a said health care workers shared how these cuts at Sharp HealthCare have already led to 315 layoffs, affecting hundreds of families. Those still working are stretched thin, risking patient care,\u201d Saldana said.<\/p>\n

Sharp HealthCare on June 30 announced the cuts, saying they were due to economic conditions having \u201cdramatically changed over the last five years,\u201d according to a statement from the company.<\/p>\n

Speakers at Saturday\u2019s event, at Waterfront Park, outside the San Diego County Administration Building, included Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-San Diego, County Supervisor Paloma Aguirre, former state Sen. Toni Atkins and Bridgette Browning of the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Republican-controlled Congress passed H.R. 1, including sharp cuts to numerous programs, including Medicaid, on a party-line vote. President Donald Trump then signed the budget into law on July 4.<\/p>\n

In late May, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, described the bill as \u201cnation-shaping legislation that reduces spending, permanently lowers taxes for families and job creators, secures the border, unleashes American energy dominance, restores peace through strength and makes government work more efficiently and effectively for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers of Saturday\u2019s rallies, though, called the cuts a result of \u201cCongress\u2019s cruel actions.\u201d Their concerns focused on defunding of healthcare for 17 million Americans, cuts to food assistance, and a jump in funding for immigration enforcement. <\/p>\n

Partners include the National Domestic Workers Alliance, SEIU, MoveOn, Community Change Action, Caring Across Generations, MomsRising and Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego County Administration Building is shown on Jan. 12, 2021. (Photo by Zo\u00eb Meyers\/inewsource) Roughly 150…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,63163,63164,3549,7264,7333,63165,63166,63167,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-95926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-county-administration-center","12":"tag-families-first","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sara-jacobs","16":"tag-service-employees-international-union","17":"tag-toni-atkins","18":"tag-united-healthcare-workers","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114923534076135012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95926","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=95926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}