What: Meeting with Congressman Jeff Hurd about devastating effects of proposed budget cuts
Who: CD-3 Residents harmed by proposed budget cuts
Where: Congressman Hurd’s Office at 743 Horizon Court, Suite 112, Grand Junction, CO
When: 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025
For More Information: Contact Holly Speaks, 970-901-2450, cpcginger@gmail.com
At 10:00 am on Friday, May 30, 2025, constituents of CD-3 Congressman Jeff Hurd will visit Mr. Hurd’s Grand Junction office to share their personal stories about the devastating impacts that proposed budget cuts will have on themselves and loved ones. Concerned constituents have repeatedly reached out to Jeff Hurd to schedule meetings, but all requests for meetings have been ignored by Hurd and his staff. Hurd’s constituents have responded with a postcard writing campaign. On Friday, they will deliver postcards telling stories about how people from all over Congressman’s Hurd’s Congressional District will be harmed by the budget cuts.
This gathering is organized by multiple CD-3 Indivisible groups. Indivisible (indivisible.org) states the following:
Republicans in Congress are on a mission to strip working families of $1.5 trillion in Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs—all to pay for more than $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the super-rich.
Here’s just some of the terrible things in the bill:
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- Massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would leave 15 million people without healthcare
- Denying food assistance to more than 11 million people
- Attacks on the trans community by banning gender affirming care from being covered by Medicaid or as an essential health benefit for ACA insurance plans
- Decimated access to reproductive healthcare by defunding Planned Parenthood and banning ACA plans from covering abortion care
- Higher costs of home utility bills because of cuts to clean energy investments
- Skyrocketing costs of college by eliminating student loan programs and slashing Pell Grant funding
Mr. Hurd was a no-show. As if Hurd’s vote, to take Medicaid and SNAP food funds away from hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, was no big thing. We never learned why this cruel action was needed.
I was just joking. Don’t be so defensive.
You have bought the rhetoric about the bill but ACA was about a whole lot more than taxing tanning beds and providing space for nursing mothers.
It was about the government telling us what type of insurance we had to have. They kinda hid that. And dont forget about getting to keep your doctor if you like your doctor. Obama got the lie of the year award for that one…from a very friendly press.
harry, nothing in the ACA mandated having to change doctors. What Obama said was true at the time he said it. The insurance companies made changes that resulted in customers having to change doctors, but conservative media announced that Obama lied, and the guillible fools like you swallowed it without questioning it.
No surprise at all here.
I hope Hurd will hear what the concerns of the community are and will vote for us. the CO delegation must oppose this harmful legislation which includes a provision to defund the judiciary from placing injunctions against the executive.
Thanks for the heads up. I (we) will be there. I can’t believe Rep. Hurd will show up.
So many commenters have spoken against the MAGA/DOGE attack on our nation. Rep. Hurd is one of their foot soldiers.
Let us speak to Mr. Hurd…if he makes it to his office!
He won’t if he’s smart. He really doesn’t have to romance voters like you if CD3 remains republican.
He also knows, just like the last time, you won’t be there to really discuss the bill. You’ll have your “indivisible” talking points and will shout him down if he tries to explain you may be misinformed.
He doesn’t come close to looking like a fighter.
Glad you mentioned “convicted felon and sex abuser” this time.
Hurd already voted for the bill, but you can yell at him like the last time. I wonder if he’ll actually show up. Even if he doesn’t it’ll make a great press release.
Poor Jeff.
It’s not just a “budget bill” – it also gives trump the ability to eliminate the judiciary, delay or cancel elections, ignore SCOTUS rulings. A complete rewrite of laws, Constitution diluted or destroyed.
Yes, this. At least one GOP house member admitted he didn’t know about this because he hadn’t read the whole bill. SMH.
“You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it”
Nancy Pelosi…
regarding ACA
Nice whataboutism. Those damn sneaky Dems hiding provisions in the ACA, like a tax on tanning beds and making workplaces provide space for nursing mothers. What were they thinking, they could have been hiding provisions to consolidate executive power.
PS. I forgot another whopper…”if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance”
But in reality the government demanded that you to have a certian kind of insurance with certian coverage and all of a sudden expensive insurance became unaffordable to people who didnt have benefits with their jobs. It also cost employers. So some states (coerced by the feds) had to set up exchanges for affordable approved insurance. Who paid for that…the tanning bed tax?
It’s been a while since I’ve thought about any.of this, but from what I remember, some of the costs got rolled into Medicaid.
Suffice it to say, we have a lot of problems in this country which will never be solved. I don’t know what will help the situation, but demonizing Jeff Hurd and lionizing your side certainly won’t.