Healthcare & Public Health
May 22, 2025
Pressley’s Statement on House Passage of Cruel Republican Reconciliation Bill
May 22, 2025
WATCH: On House Floor, Pressley Makes Final Appeal to Republicans to Reject Cruel, Callous Budget Bill
May 21, 2025
WATCH: Pressley in Powerful Floor Speech: Republican Bill Gutting Medicaid Would Decimate Reproductive Healthcare
May 20, 2025
VIDEO: Pressley, Color Of Change, Colleagues Condemn Medicaid Cuts for Trump’s Billionaire Handouts
May 12, 2025
Pressley, Nunn, Underwood Reintroduce Bill to Expand Access to Maternal Healthcare
May 08, 2025
WATCH: Pressley Rallies at 24-Hour Vigil to Defend Medicaid, Protect Vulnerable Communities
May 08, 2025
Pressley, Thompson, Markey, McGovern, Carter Continue Investigation Into Conditions at ICE Facilities After Hearing Allegations of Medical Neglect
April 10, 2025
While Trump, Republicans, RFK, Jr. Dismantle HHS, Pressley, Warren Re-Introduce Bill to Confront Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Dr. Hailey Evans is a neonatologist and one of my constituents from Jamaica Plain.
She recently wrote to my office about the devastating impacts Republican Medicaid cuts would have for our postpartum patients and babies in the #MA7 and nationwide.
For Dr. Evans, these cuts would harm the patients she cares for, their families, and create large disruptions in finances for hospitals like hers that care for critically ill newborns.
“My patients deserve a well-funded Medicaid program,” she said.
In Massachusetts, Medicaid covers 39% of all children and pays for 32% of all births. The drastic cuts to Medicaid under Trump and Republicans’ bill would undermine Dr. Evans and her colleagues’ ability to care for these infants and leave them ill-served.
In her words, “Medicaid is fundamental to children’s health and incredibly important for the babies in our state and district.”
This essential program has helped us reduce maternal mortality, improve access to healthcare for our most vulnerable, and give families with premature babies a fighting chance.
The Senate must reject these devastating cuts and protect our families.
Medicaid is healthcare. SNAP is food assistance.
Both are lifelines and we’re not done fighting for them.
The Senate must reject Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill and protect our families.
Memorial Day is more than a kick start to summer or an excuse to barbecue.
It’s a day of solemn remembrance for those who never returned home.
To our fallen servicemembers and veterans from the #MA7: our hearts are with you and your sacrifices will never be forgotten.
It’s been 5 years since George Floyd was murdered & our communities are still plagued by mass incarceration, police brutality, & overcriminalization.
That’s why I’m reintroducing bold legislation to continue our push toward accountability, healing, & our collective liberation.
We’ll never have true justice for George Floyd.
True justice would be George Floyd alive today.
We owe it to George, his family, and everyone murdered by law enforcement to continue building a more just America where everyone can thrive & live free from fear.
Congrats @BUSPH Class of 2025!
Pursuing a career in public health, especially with public health under attack right now, is a noble act of radical courage.
Keep dreaming and doing the radical Work necessary to build a more just, healthy, and equitable world.
Trump is using Harvard students in his unlawful attempts to silence dissent, sow fear on campuses, and intimidate our immigrant neighbors.
But we cannot and will not give in to bullying.
I’m glad Harvard is standing firm and pushing back, and I’m proud to stand with them.
Republicans’ cruel, callous, and morally bankrupt bill is a shameful betrayal of our shared humanity.
This is a somber day, but this fight isn’t over.
My full statement:
To my Republican colleagues, you can save lives.
You can look your kids in the eye and say that when everything was at stake, you did the right thing.
I’m not begging you for benevolence, I’m asking you for decency.
Do right by your constituents and oppose this shameful bill.
