Hurting American Families

  • Representative Van Orden and verbally berated an (already-fired) star employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs. “You should have been working for veterans, not posting trash about your boss, President Trump”. The former employee had won “employee of the quarter” last year but was fired and told “you’re a failure to the Veterans Administration”.
  • Representative Van Orden attended the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol prior to winning his seat in Congress.
  • Representative Van Orden screamed at high school aged Senate Pages, told them to “get the fuck out” of the Capitol rotunda and was “physically aggressive”. He also called them “jackasses” and “pieces of shit”, and screamed “Wake the fuck up you little shits. What the fuck are you all doing? Get the fuck out of here. You are defiling the place.” Punchbowl News later reported an image of empty alcohol bottles in his office taken immediately after the incident.

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Talking Points

Here are talking points to guide your calls or emails.

I’m calling to urge you not to cut health care, Social Security or important services that Americans rely on every day. Taking health care away from families, Social Security away from seniors, or school lunches away from kids is not the way to pay for tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk.

  • This includes protecting Medicaid. Medicaid provides health care for millions of seniors, kids, and families. Don’t cut Medicaid benefits, services, or funding to doctors.
  • It also means protecting Social Security and Medicare. These are benefits Americans have paid for and earned.
  • Don’t cut other programs that help regular Americans, like public education and school lunches, veterans benefits, food safety, and air traffic controllers.

Don’t allow Congress to cut these programs and don’t allow Elon Musk to eliminate them through DOGE.

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