Join everyday New Yorkers as we confront new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during his appearance at the New York Stock Exchange, the heart of US capitalism, corporate profits, and personal wealth accumulation!

We’re going there to:

• Challenge his outrageous claims that people who need food and health care “just need to work harder” and should “give up depending on public programs.” Instead, Speaker McCarthy and his new House Majority should improve and expand government social programs.
• Call on him to protect our national (and global) economy by just passing a "clean" debt ceiling bill with no other provisions, to allow our government to simply pay its bills.
• Demand that he and the House Majority make tax cheats pay what they owe, and make large corporations and the ultra-rich pay their fair share of taxes (just like the rest of us do.) That way, we can easily afford to fully fund the full range of health and human service programs that millions of everyday people need.

Relevant signs and banners are welcome!

• Speaker Kevin McCarthy is giving a speech at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning April 17. He’s going there to lay out his ideas to raise the federal debt ceiling limit while simultaneously slashing spending on social programs that millions of regular people rely on, like Medicaid and SNAP (Food Stamps).
• He and his colleagues also want to create lots of new red-tape bureaucracy to keep people getting the government help they need to get by, and are eligible for.
• At the same time, McCarthy and his team also want to extend tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires in ways that will blow federal debt sky high.

Sponsoring groups [list in formation]:

• Black Church Center for Justice and Equality
• Children Defense Fund of New York
• Children's Health Fund
• Education Trust-New York
• First Corinthian Baptist Church
• Fiscal Policy Institute
• Health Care for America Now
• Medicaid Matters New York
• Metro New York Health Care for All
• Middle Collegiate Church
• New York Progressive Action Network
• New York Statewide Senior Action Council
• Park Avenue Christian Church
• Queens Baptist Church
• Rise and Resist
• Riverside Church in New York City
• Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
• Strong Economy for All
• Upper West Side Action Group