WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) joined SEIU President April Verrett, 1199 President George Gresham, and dozens of SEIU members on Capitol Hill today to rally against this Administration’s attacks on Medicaid. “Cuts to Medicaid would devastate so many Marylanders,” said Senator Alsobrooks. “It would disrupt care for 64% of nursing home residents in Maryland. The threats this Administration has made against Maryland families is shameful. I know I won’t stand for it, and I know the members of SEIU won’t stand for it. Together, we will protect Medicaid and fight for our workers.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, (both D-MD) joined a group of colleagues to demand answers from the Administration on Head Start, a critical program that provides America’s most vulnerable young children what they need to succeed in school – food, resources, and more. The program still faces uncertainty after last week’s haphazard Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) memo that imposed a government-wide hiring freeze. Last week, Head Start programs were temporarily unable to access the Payment Management System (PMS)

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday evening, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) joined Jen Psaki to discuss the current Administration’s very disturbing witch hunt targeting the federal workforce and the dangerous rhetoric of Health and Human Service Secretary Nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “And as you mentioned these are, in so many cases, apolitical civil servants who are serving our country, and what we’re seeing now is really devastating. It’s devastating,” said Senator Alsobrooks. “It’s not just the FBI but you can just see, really, we can’t consider it in a vacuum. The witch hunt that we’ve seen regarding our federal employees.” “These are people, many of whom,