Protesters are gathering at NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center in Brooklyn Saturday to march against Republican Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis’ vote for a budget resolution they say cuts health coverage.
“The constituents in the district are very concerned about the effects of the budget on healthcare,” Indivisible Brooklyn organizer Lee Crawford told 1010 WINS. “The cuts are very meaningful. They will reach a lot of people. But the march is to bring eyes on that, to bring visibility to the issue.”
According to a press release about the event, some politicians in Washington are taking steps to drastically cut spending on federal health care programs. It said these cuts will fund “huge tax cuts for big corporations and billionaires,” and could impact people with Medicaid, Medicare, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan, or Affordable Care Act coverage.
“NY-11 Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who serves southwest Brooklyn and Staten Island in Congress, just voted for a budget plan that has set this legislative process in motion,” said the release. “We’re marching to her Bay Ridge office to tell her what these important federal health care programs mean to us, our families, and our communities.”
In a statement, Malliotakis responded, “Nothing in the budget resolution cuts healthcare and it does not even mention the words Medicare or Medicaid. Our efforts are focused on eliminating fraud, abuse and bloated bureaucracy to administer programs more efficiently to reduce our $37 trillion debt and put us on a path to fiscal responsibility so our country and these programs don’t go bankrupt. Today’s protest is sadly just left-wing political organizations trying to instill fear to score cheap political points.”