Meanwhile, the top 1% of earners get $1T in tax benefits. This is the real tragedy of HR1 - regular people shoulder deep cuts that take food off tables, strain our public health nurses, and threaten our nursing homes so that the wealthiest people in our country can get showered with benefits.

As more people are uninsured, they will turn to county funded behavioral health, public health, or emergency response for care. Sheriff's deputies will see an increase in the number of mental health crisis calls and long transports to Winnebago.

In Amery WI, Golden Age Manor nursing home could lose up to $220,000 a year. Dunn County could see over 400 neighbors lose Medicaid. Families across the region could face $1,500–$1,700 spikes in insurance costs.

It was passed in Washington, but HR1s effects will be felt right here, in our beloved nursing home, in our human services departments, and in the sheriff’s office that responds to mental health crises across our counties.

HR1’s cuts to SNAP/FoodShare, Medicaid & ACA will ripple through our counties. If counties cannot absorb these costs, delays will grow, case backlogs lengthen, more families will fall through the cracks before they can access nutrition assistance or services like crisis care funded by Medicaid

Meanwhile, the top 1% of earners get $1T in tax benefits. This is the real tragedy of HR1 - regular people shoulder deep cuts that take food off tables, strain our public health nurses, and threaten our nursing homes so that the wealthiest people in our country can get showered with benefits.

As more people are uninsured, they will turn to county funded behavioral health, public health, or emergency response for care. Sheriff's deputies will see an increase in the number of mental health crisis calls and long transports to Winnebago.

In Amery WI, Golden Age Manor nursing home could lose up to $220,000 a year. Dunn County could see over 400 neighbors lose Medicaid. Families across the region could face $1,500–$1,700 spikes in insurance costs.

It was passed in Washington, but HR1s effects will be felt right here, in our beloved nursing home, in our human services departments, and in the sheriff’s office that responds to mental health crises across our counties.

HR1’s cuts to SNAP/FoodShare, Medicaid & ACA will ripple through our counties. If counties cannot absorb these costs, delays will grow, case backlogs lengthen, more families will fall through the cracks before they can access nutrition assistance or services like crisis care funded by Medicaid

That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. The political conflict isn’t over, nor is the outcome determined, or democracy destined to be extinguished for good.

But let’s finally discard whatever residual notion of “It cannot happen here” is still floating around.