On June 25, 2025, National Minority Quality Forum joined more than 100 national health associations, advocacy organizations, and medical professionals to submit a joint letter to Senate leadership expressing strong opposition to proposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate Finance Committee’s budget reconciliation package. Addressed to Majority Leader John Thune, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Finance Committee leaders Senators Mike Crapo and Ron Wyden, the letter warns that the proposed cuts would disproportionately harm women and children by undermining access to essential health services, especially maternal, pediatric, elder, and disability care.

Signatories emphasize that Medicaid is a critical safety net—covering over 40% of U.S. births and nearly 37 million children—and that cuts would strain state budgets, shutter healthcare facilities, exacerbate maternity care deserts, destabilize the healthcare workforce (predominantly women), and reverse progress on racial health disparities. The coalition urges Senate leaders to reject any measures that would weaken Medicaid and calls for sustained investment to protect the health and economic stability of vulnerable populations across the country.

Read full letter here.