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| 1. Fighting Republican health care cuts
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On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to increase health care premiums during a cost-of-living crisis that is already hurting American families.
President Trump and congressional Republicans have spent their entire year in power cutting taxes for billionaires, gutting health care access, and making life more expensive for American families.
Now, because of this vote, enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits that help millions of Americans afford care will expire, and as many as 1.7 million New Yorkers will see their premiums skyrocket in the new year.
Prior to the vote, Kirsten spent the week imploring her Republican colleagues to do the right thing and support working Americans. But instead of voting to lower health care costs, Republicans offered half-baked proposals that failed to address the impending crisis or protect quality care. Kirsten will keep working to do everything she can to support working-class New Yorkers and bring down health care costs.
Read Kirsten’s opinion piece about health care costs in the New York Daily News.
| 2. Sounding the alarm about Trump’s tariffs in Williamsville
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President Trump’s tariffs are a lose-lose for New York families and small business owners.
This week, Kirsten visited a toy store in Williamsville to discuss the impact that the president’s reckless tariffs are having on small businesses and American families. She also called on President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to end these tariffs in order to provide meaningful relief to small businesses, protect consumers, and ensure that American families are not met with higher prices or product shortages during the holiday season.
| 3. Workplace rights
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Domestic workers—including home health aides, nannies, housekeepers, and live-in caretakers—have too often been overlooked in the fight for workers’ rights. This leaves many working long hours, earning low wages, and struggling to make ends meet without the protections afforded to most Americans in the labor force.
This week, Kirsten introduced the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act to provide these workers with the safety and stability that they deserve. This vital legislation would close loopholes in federal labor and civil rights laws, ensuring domestic workers receive overtime pay, sick leave, breaks, and other key workplace protections.