Project 2025 is here. Threatening Medicaid and essential care programs was a top priority in the Trump Administration’s playbook and one of the greatest dangers of a second term.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2025
MEDIA CONTACT: Daniela Perez, [email protected]
Washington, D.C. — In reaction to the Trump administration’s overreaching attempt to freeze funding for federal programs, Care in Action Executive Director Jenn Stowe issued the following response:
“Project 2025 is here. Threatening Medicaid and essential care programs was a top priority in the Trump Administration’s playbook and one of the greatest dangers of a second term. Now, just days into his presidency, he is attacking millions of working people and families. Freezing access to Medicaid would leave families, seniors, and children without care while billionaires get richer. The fallout has been immediate: Medicaid payment portals were down nationwide today, delaying care and sowing confusion for millions who rely on it. This chaos isn’t accidental—it’s a calculated attempt to discourage people from using these vital programs to make it easier for them to strip away our access to care.
The Trump Administration is putting cruelty over care and billionaires over workers and families. Care workers, parents, and advocates will fight back—at every level—to protect the care that millions depend on. We have fought for decades for workers and families. We will not stop now.”
Care in Action is urging elected officials to remember that care is not a partisan issue, it’s a universal need. Seventy-seven percent of voters support protecting Medicaid, including strong majorities of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. And Medicaid covers 72 million Americans including 1 in 5 Americans across the country. No matter who is in the White House, Americans overwhelmingly agree that care is essential. Yet Trump and his allies are ignoring the will of the people, making it harder for families to access care and workers to earn a dignified living.
The Trump administration’s federal freeze is just one of many attempts to pull vital services away from families. Medicaid cuts proposed by Republicans in Congress would severely impact seniors and people with disabilities, increase hospital closures in rural communities, and push care workers—who are disproportionately Black, Brown, and immigrant women—further into economic precarity.
We can’t let billionaires and politicians put profits over people—care is essential to our families, our economy, and our future.
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Care in Action is the policy and advocacy home for women who care, working on behalf of more than two million domestic workers and care workers across America. Among the fastest-growing sectors in our economy, domestic workers are also among the most vulnerable and undervalued. As a mostly women and majority women of color workforce, this growing constituency consistently and overwhelmingly supports progressive values in American political life. Learn more at www.careinaction.us.