Community Press Conference & Speak-Out Against Nicole Malliotakis' Big Ugly Budget Vote
Start: Thursday, May 29, 2025•12:00 PM
Host contact info metrohealth@igc.org
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis just voted for a 10-year budget plan that will take away our:
- Health care -- Medicaid, Medicare, Essential Plan, Child Health Plus, Affordable Care Act
- Food assistance -- SNAP (food stamps), Meals-on-Wheels, school meals, food pantries, soup kitchens
- Housing -- Section 8 and 9 vouchers
- and many more public programs that serve millions of everyday New Yorkers struggling to get by.
...all just to give EVEN MORE HUGE tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations!
Rep. Malliotakis had a choice to make and she chose billionaires. She didn't choose to side with the everyday people in her district. In fact, she cast the deciding vote that made the bill pass -- if she had voted the other way, it would have failed.
Everyone will be negatively affected if this bill becomes law --whether or not you rely on a specific public program-- because prices and costs will go up for every person and household, and our larger economy will also decline.
Join your fellow New Yorkers to tell Rep. Malliotakis what you think about what she just did. We want a BIG crowd there to show her that we're watching her, we know how she voted, and we don't like it.
Here are some outreach materials for this event:
Public transit to get there:
- Subway -- R train to 77th St. in Brooklyn
- Staten Island buses -- S53, S79, S93 to 86th St. bus hub in Brooklyn
- Brooklyn buses -- B4 or B16 to 3rd Ave; B37 or B63 to 77th & 78th St; B16 to 86th St.
Hosted by NY-11 for Health Care.
Co-sponsors include [list in formation]:
- Center for Independence of the Disabled
- Citizen Action of New York
- Healthcare Education Project
- Indivisible Brooklyn
- Make the Road Action
- Metro New York Health Care for All
- New York State Nurses Association
- #NYDocs Coalition
- People's Action Institute
- Physicians for a National Health Program, New York Metro Chapter
- Rise and Resist
- 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
- Staten Island Action Coalition
- Urban Justice Center, Safety Net Project
Email metrohealth@igc.org to sign your group on as a co-sponsor.