Gov. Kathy Hochul, Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), and hospital employees members railed on Sunday afternoon towards a Trump-backed invoice that they warned will intestine funding for well being care protection for seniors and low-income New Yorkers.
Picture by Dean Moses
Gov. Kathy Hochul, Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), and hospital employees members railed on Sunday afternoon towards a Trump-backed invoice that they warned will intestine funding for well being care protection for seniors and low-income New Yorkers.
Hochul didn’t mince phrases as she addressed docs, nurses, and administration inside One Brooklyn Hospital Interfaith Medical Heart situated at 1545 Atlantic Ave. She took purpose conservative elected officers within the Large Apple who voted to move what President Donald Trump has dubbed the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” tax minimize and spending invoice, which incorporates draconian cuts to Medicare and Medicaid funding.
“We’re at war to protect our people, and I’m sick and tired of Washington thinking that we can be the collateral damage in the weaponization of programs that we’ve relied on for nearly 60 years, and cut them so they can cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires,” Hochul scoffed. “Republicans call it reform, basically Robin Hood in reverse, right out of our pockets.”
In response to Hochul, some 1.5 million New Yorkers would lose healthcare protection if the act, as deliberate, is accepted by the Senate and signed into regulation by President Trump. Hospitals within the Large Apple would additionally lose over $3 billion in funding.
Hochul and Jeffries say the invoice’s influence on Medicaid would even be catastrophic for New York’s authorities, predicting it would lose $2.5 billion in federal income, whereas incurring $500 million in additional prices to cowl state administrative points.
“We’re at war to protect our people, and I’m sick and tired of Washington thinking that we can be the collateral damage in the weaponization of programs that we’ve relied on for nearly 60 years, and cut them so they can cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires,” Hochul scoffed. Picture by Dean Moses 
Michelle Ned says she has labored at Interfaith Medical Heart for over 4 many years, she additionally says her daughter lives with autism and will depend on Medicaid.Picture by Dean Moses
The cuts threaten to hurt New York’s most susceptible residents, a degree many sought to emphasize Sunday.
Michelle Ned says she has labored at Interfaith Medical Heart for over 4 many years, and her daughter lives with autism and will depend on Medicaid. Some 95% of sufferers who go to Interfaith are insured by way of Medicare and Medicaid, and if the “One Big Beautiful Bill” turns into a actuality, Ned fears the hospital will quickly vanish. However she isn’t prepared to simply accept that actuality and not using a combat.
“That simply means that this hospital will not be able to survive without it,” Ned stated. “We will fight because this is not an option. You cannot take away what is our right.”
Within the crowd of spectators, employees and sufferers alike waved indicators studying, “Hands off our Health care” and “No Medicaid Cuts.”
Within the crowd of spectators, employees and sufferers alike waved indicators studying “Hands off our Health care” and “No Medicaid cuts.”Picture by Dean Moses 
Within the crowd of spectators, employees and sufferers alike waved indicators studying “Hands off our Health care” and “No Medicaid cuts.”Picture by Dean Moses
Whereas condemning New York Republicans for falling in line to Trump, Jeffries nonetheless sought to strike a extra optimistic tone — saying he has hope for the Senate.
Jeffries stated that the invoice, which he referred to as “big and ugly” and a part of the notorious Undertaking 2025, solely wants 4 Republicans to halt it in its tracks.
“They want to take a chainsaw to Medicare. They want to take a chainsaw to the Affordable Care Act. We’re going to take a chainsaw to Project 2025, and we can start by stopping this one big, ugly bill, because it’s straight out of the project 2025 playbook,” Jeffries stated. “Whenever I’m on the House floor, we make it clear we don’t work for Donald Trump, we don’t work for the extremists, we work for the American people.”
“They want to take a chainsaw to Medicare. They want to take a chainsaw to the Affordable Care Act. We’re going to take a chainsaw to project 2025, and we can start by stopping this one big, ugly bill, because it’s straight out of the project 2025 playbook,” Jeffries stated.Picture by Dean Moses
