​The “Big Beautiful Bill” Act making its way through congress guts nearly $800 billion from Medicaid and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), threatening essential services millions of working Floridians rely upon and have already paid for - through income taxes, sales taxes, providers fees, and decades of economic contribution. The results of this bill if passed would constitute nothing less than theft from the public and a failure to uphold constitutional commitments to provide for the common welfare.

This Bigoted Billionaire Budget would be devastating for the over 4.3 million individuals who rely on medicaid - unemployed, working families, pregnant individuals, and those with disabilities - who would all be put at risk.

Hospitals especially in rural communities would lose critical funding leading them to close their doors to the people most in need, meaning Floridians would need to travel hours just to see a doctor, deliver a child, or survive a medical emergency.

Medicaid is the primary way seniors pay for nursing homes and long term care. This bill threatens that putting working class Floridians in an impossible position: to either pay out of pocket at exorbitant rates for elder care or to go without. 1 in 6 Floridians - mostly children - are insured by Medicaid and nearly half of all births in the state of Florida are covered by Medicaid. Expansion of healthcare is more efficient than privatization while enabling workers to contribute more.

In response to these devastating cuts that benefit nobody but oligarchs we the people demand that you....

Protect Medicaid, No Bigoted Cuts - We demand that Florida fully cover any federal shortfall in Medicaid funding to ensure no loss of coverage or services for residents who depend on it, and that all bigoted cuts over gender affirming care be rescinded and removed from federal and state law. Restrictions on undocumented Americans, abortion, and gender-affirming care should not be reimposed.

Public Transparency - We demand that Florida be fully transparent about the results of these cuts - coverage loss, facility closures, provider shortages, and healthcare costs.

No Plutocratic Tax Cuts - we demand that the working poor not get the tax bill of the wealthy through federal tax cuts and that our state enact taxes to fill in any gaps

No Workfare, Child and Senior Labor - we demand that no additional work requirements be imposed for those using Medicaid or SNAP. Our social safety net must not be dismantled, and seniors and children should not be forced to take dangerous jobs to fund tax cuts for the rich.

Expand Our Infrastructure, Not Car Dependency - We demand that if personal tax incentives around purchase of an EV are to be cut, that sufficient investment instead be made in sustainable local and regional public infrastructure to enable a fully electrified power grid and for workers to be able to commute without a private vehicle, and that the local green infrastructure projects not be suspended.

Balance Our Budget - Through enacting a single-payer health care for all system such as Medicare for All and the immediate expansion of Medicaid, to lower costs for all Floridians and Americans. These policies would sustainably lower national and state debt without the need to borrow additional money, increase worker productivity and retention, and give security to every household.

Don’t Privatize Education - We demand that public education be fully funded without transferring more funds to private education institutions which defund our public schools.

No Wasteful Military and Immigration Spending - Detention centers, deportations, and boondoggle military projects like the Golden Dome are not priorities for the public. We demand the planned spending not go into effect.

Protect Public Lands and All Workers - By opposing the construction of camps and private development on our public lands and allowing undocumented people legal status and citizenship to contribute to our society.​

Legislation for the People - Call for a legislative session around enacting an agenda for working people, not bosses and billionaires. Expand healthcare and workers rights.

I urge you to maximally use your power to stop the robbery of Floridians and the American people represented by the One Big Beautiful Bill. Use your voice to speak out against bigoted cuts and wealth transfers, propose amendments to shield and protect the public, vote against these bills, and legislate for the many not the few​.

I stand with the Democratic Socialists of America's Pensacola chapter and their allies in the call an equitable future for everyone

I support efforts towards the full democratization of the US — and oppose needlessly restricting people and their rights and the upward transfer of the wealth of our country from the workers who create it to the billionaire class.