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Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, ranking member of the subcommittee, said that “without bold and sustained federal investment, child care costs will continue to rise and the workforce that provides the care will continue to struggle.”
The Oregon Democrat blasted the proposed cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as part of congressional Republicans’ reconciliation package.
Bonamici described Medicaid and SNAP as “programs that support children, families, child care centers and the child care workforce.”
Over the last month, students and staff of Astoria’s Tongue Point Job Corps Center have juggled more than their share of uncertainty – but amid the chaos, one thing remains clear. Job Corps is worth fighting for.
Congress created Job Corps — and Bonamici said only Congress can get rid of it. As the House and Senate work through the appropriations process, the congresswoman said she believes it’s unlikely the program will be defunded given the level of bipartisan support it’s received.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici agreed.
“The American people deserve to have their representatives play their proper role in our constitutional government, especially involving a decision of such enormous gravity,” Bonamici said.
While Republicans have said the cuts are part of an effort to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and making sure able-bodied adults are working if they’re on Medicaid, they’re really about tax cuts for the rich, Bonamici said.
“The people getting the tax cuts don’t really need the tax cuts,” the congresswoman said. “But look at the consequences, those who will suffer.”
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici heard from hospital leaders during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, including representatives from Oregon Health & Science University, Legacy Health, and Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria.
Erik Thorsen, CEO of Columbia Memorial, said that rural areas are already struggling to provide specialty care, which often requires patients to travel long distances for treatment.
ICE arrests and big tech layoffs were just two of the topics discussed at Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici’s town hall in Hillsboro on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people packed into Raymond Arthur Brown Middle School to ask Bonamici questions about numerous topics and hoping to make sense of what is going on at the federal level.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), one of the lead authors of the letter, sees the administration’s attack on the bureau as “turning back the clock in ways that are really pretty outrageous,” she told me by phone on Monday. The Women’s Bureau, she added, is “just as important [now] as it ever was.”
For those who have found their path to success through Job Corps and others who will need that path in the future, let’s tell the Labor Department that we care about every student, and let’s save Job Corps.
The letter also notes the EEOC moved to dismiss six cases the agency had previously pursued against employers accused of gender identity discrimination, including EEOC v Boxwood Hotels, a lawsuit in which the employer is alleged to have fired a transgender employee after the employee’s manager repeatedly misgendered the employee and referred to them as “it”.