TIME SENSITIVE: CALLING ALL NYS ADVOCATES

June 29, 2025

First, here’s an updated resource from the Manatt Health team on the Medicaid coverage and expenditure impacts associated with the Senate Reconciliation bill: 50-State Medicaid Coverage and Expenditure Impacts of the Senate Version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Next, below is info regarding what is the first of many emergency calls I expect to learn about over the next 24 hours.  I will share them as they come in.  This one is tomorrow (Monday) morning at 9:30 am AND IS HOSTED BY METRO NY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. 


Emergency statewide online meeting re: Senate budget reconciliation bill:

Mon. June 30 @ 9:30 a.m.

NO AI bot notetakers allowed!

The next few days are now or never time.  There is NO MORE TIME to hold back, and NOW is time to pull out all the stops.  Time to be fierce and angry and fully public because we have nothing to lose.

The Senate Majority is on the verge of taking up its budget reconciliation bill very soon, starting either tonight or sometime tomorrow.  If and when it does, it will likely be a continuous marathon session that won’t stop until they are done.  If passed, their bill will then immediately go over to the House. 

Speaker Johnson has called House Reps. back from their July 4 recess break for this coming Tues. and Wed. when House Majority leadership is expected to try to ram it through as is.  They will take up the Senate’s bill as quickly as they can once the Senate is done, likely starting sometime on Tuesday or as soon as the Speaker has the votes he needs – it too will be a marathon session that could well go through the night on Tues. into Wed., however things could get delayed and it may spill over into Thurs.

We have to get ready for the next few days starting RIGHT NOW, so that we are ready to roll with some rapid response events as best we can as fast as we can, and as powerfully as we can.  This goal will be a challenge given that it’s a short holiday week, but we have no choice.   We have to act together.

We have to assume the worst (the bill moves ahead in each chamber), and hope/work for the best:  slow things down and stall them out by manifesting strong public opposition.

If and when the Senate bill does pass, we must immediately pivot to a direct and public focus on our 7 NY House members in our key strategic districts:  LaLota (NY-1), Garbarino (NY-1), Malliotakis (NY-11), Lawler (NY-17), Stefanik (NY-21), Langworthy (NY-23), and Tenney (NY-24). 

Here a few ideas that are being pondered at the moment that we will talk about more during this meeting – they are not mutually exclusive:

  • A public rally/protest outside the Reps. local district office on Tues. and/or Wed., calling on them to reject the Senate bill as way too extreme.
  • An ongoing vigil presence outside their local district offices (as many as can be covered).  A continuous rotating group of a half-dozen or so people taking 2-3+ hour shifts and simply holding space with signs and banners and props.  These vigils could go late into the night and/or through the overnight, using glass jar candles to reflect a somber mood.  These vigils could kick-off and/or close-out with a larger rally-style event.  They could last from when the House debate starts until when it the voting ends.  They could start at sunset and go until sunrise, with a breakfast rally before people head off to work (on either Wed. and/or Thurs. (depending on the congressional timeline), or go round the clock until it’s all over.
  • Telephone relays where people call their Reps. office to deliver a message(s), then alert the next person, and so on …so that there are non-stop phone calls all day long to both their Capitol Hill and local district offices.
  • If the House does vote the Senate bill through, then we have to confront these Reps. hard with a loud response – ideally, another public event for this Thurs. or early-on next week.

Yes, it will be a marathon for us too, but we CANNOT let this bill go through without putting up as loud and powerful a fight as we can possibly muster.  Frankly, it’s now-or-never.

As best you can, please try to take the temperature of your own partners and allies about any of the above ideas as quickly as you can.  Please also feel free to suggest some other ones you may have.