Multiple Indivisible groups issued the following media advisory today to pressure CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd to vote against convicted felon President Trump’s One Big, Terrible tax bill. The bill is controversial because it preserves tax cuts enjoyed by the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations that were first enacted in 2017 in Trump’s first term, despite the fact that the country deeply in debt and starved for revenue. To continue these irresponsible tax cuts, the bill makes massive cuts to Medicaid, which Trump repeatedly said he would not do. The bill is expected to throw hundreds of thousands of Coloradans off their health care. It also cuts funding for education and nutritional benefits for the poor and eliminates funding for sustainable energy, potentially raising energy costs. If the bill passes, the consequences for U.S. healthcare, and especially rural hospitals, are expected to be dire. Community Hospital in Grand Junction may have to cut services or could even be forced to close.
Hurd’s district has the highest rate of Medicaid enrollment in the state, at 31% of its residents.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
July 2, 2025
Sit-In at Rep. Hurd’s Grand Junction Office to Protest the Republican Tax Scam
Grand Junction, Colo. (July 2, 2025) – Residents of Colorado’s Congressional District 3 will be staging a sit-in at Representative Jeff Hurd’s Grand Junction Office on July, 2, 3, and 4 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm each day. Their goal is to pressure Rep. Hurd to vote NO on the budget reconciliation bill, H.R.1.
“Republicans in Congress are selling us out to help billionaires like Elon Musk get even richer,” said Mallory Martin of Indivisible Grand Junction. “Their tax-scam budget bill includes trillions of dollars in cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other essential programs in order to fund more than $4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts to the ultra rich and big corporations. We’re showing up in person at Rep. Hurd’s office to urge him to do the right thing and vote NO on this shameful and destructive bill.”
WHAT: Sit-In at Rep. Hurd’s Office to Protest the Republican Tax Scam
WHO: Grand Junction Indivisible, Montrose & Ouray Counties Indivisible, Mountain Action Indivisible, and CD3 constituents
WHEN: Wednesday through Friday, July 2-4, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
WHERE: Rep. Hurd’s office at 743 Horizon Ct, Suite 112, Grand Junction
CONTACT: Mallory Martin 970-433-6577
mallory@indivisiblegrandjunction.org
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This event is being organized by Indivisible Grand Junction, Montrose & Ouray Counties Indivisible, and Mountain Action Indivisible. A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action.
PS. Just one more thing that probably won’t land well..
Have you ever considered that if we hadn’t let millions of illegal migrants into our country, provided food and housing and plane rides and schools and health care and funded NGOs to help them navigate our pesky immigration laws…not to mention the cost of police and deportation…we might have all the money we need to fund Medicaid and SNAP and all the other federal programs we feel entitled to?
So, I guess you’ve given up saying “this bill gives tax cuts to the wealthy” to
“retains taxes cuts to the wealthy” but you leave out the part about retaining the tax cuts is for everyone.
If one is to extrapolate from there, I guess you would say that taxes should be raised on the rich so we can fund stuff like Medicaid. Fat chance.
But then Mallory says there are going to be 4.5 TRILLION in tax cuts for the rich and famous! (I hope she remembered to make an appointment.)
This messaging is so all over the place that only the most rabid Trump haters could swallow it.
No one knows what this bill is going to do yet. Remember Pelosi? “We have to pass the bill before we know what’s in it”
I hope at least you can give poor Jeff credit for voting against the federal land sale scheme.
And congratulations on posting such a flattering picture of Congressman Hurd.
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Yes, we do know what’s in it. They read the whole thing on the Senate floor, remember?
It gives Trump the ability to cancel elections. It stops overtime from being taxed on your paychecks, but adds the extra pay to your taxable income on your W-2 so you still have to pay tax on it, just not right away.
And it will result in millions of Americans losing their healthcare.
But keep on handwaving it all away.
Are you a creationist, by any chance? You’re just the kind of gullible rube they are looking for.
Harry has two stances he takes on Trump’s words and actions:
1. He likes it openly, and crows about how it “triggers the Liberals”, or
2. He claims not to like it, because it’s something so vile and indefensible that even he can’t defend it, but he makes sure to point out that he likes that it “triggers the Liberals”.
He’s basically an aged version of Nelson Muntz, without the basic human dignity and introspection.