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Maine families to share stories demanding care over cuts in wake of devastating Trump reconciliation bill

July 25, 2025

This event is part of the nationwide Families First Day of Action, with events taking place in all 50 states.

WHAT: A storytelling and community event for families to learn and voice their concerns about the coming federal cuts to child care, SNAP, and Medicaid; and call on our state legislature to ensure the wealthiest residents of Maine pay what they truly owe in taxes to fund health care, food assistance, and more in our state. 

WHEN: Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Riverbank Park, 677 Main St., Westbrook

WHO: Families, parents, child care providers, caretakers

VISUAL: Parents, child care providers, and caretakers; people writing on large banner; children drawing on banner; children at play in park

WHY: On July 26, Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: ordinary people and families come first—not billionaires, rich corporations, or politics. 

Here in Maine, families, caregivers and others will gather at Riverbank Park in Westbrook, to share their stories about how the deep cuts to services like Medicaid, food assistance, and emergency services in the federal budget, alongside huge increases in spending on cruel immigration enforcement measures, will impact them and other Mainers. And they’ll call on our state legislature, when it returns for the next session, to step in where the federal government has failed, and fund health care, food assistance, and more in Maine – not tax cuts for our wealthiest residents. 

Background: Earlier this month, the Republican-led Congress and the Trump Administration passed legislation that will hand billions in tax giveaways to billionaires and greedy corporations by: 

  • Ripping healthcare away from 17 million people, including children, older people, and people with disabilities, by gutting Medicaid.
  • Forcing millions of working families to make impossible choices between groceries and rent, by cutting the SNAP program (food stamps.) 
  • Leaving families vulnerable to hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters, by slashing critical FEMA funding.
  • Eliminating free and reduced-price school lunches, taking food off the trays of children who rely on it to learn and grow.
  • Tearing apart families with excessive, arbitrary and often illegal immigration enforcement. 

We deserve a government that takes care of us—not one that hurts us. We believe in a future where every family has food on the table, healthcare when they need it, and safety in their own neighborhood—no matter their zip code or immigration status.

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With more than 32,000 members, MPA is the largest community organization in Maine, and one of the largest in the country. We work together on issues that include but are not limited to housing, care, climate change and environmental justice, health care access, racial justice, and immigrant rights.

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Contact: Nora Flaherty-Stanford, [email protected], (207) 370-8314

Emily Burnham, [email protected], (207) 944-2809