Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,

Enough is enough. The American people are not pawns in your political games. While families across the country are worried about paying their bills, affording prescriptions, and keeping their health insurance, Washington is playing shutdown politics — and you’re standing at the center of it.

Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home while the government is closed. That means hundreds of thousands of federal workers are without pay, families are losing access to essential services, and the nation’s creditability is once again dragged through the mud. And instead of leading, you’ve allowed this chaos to become a tool for blame, distraction, and division. That’s not leadership — that’s neglect.

Health care is not a partisan trophy. It’s a lifeline for millions of Americans — many of them in the same red states that supported you. Stripping away coverage, cutting subsidies, and pretending to “fix” Medicaid by taking benefits from working families doesn’t make the system stronger; it makes lives harder. Americans aren’t asking for miracles — they’re asking not to go bankrupt when they get sick.

It’s shameful that at a time when the richest nation on Earth should be ensuring care for all, your administration and its allies are using health care as leverage in a political fight. Even worse, the constant finger-pointing — blaming Democrats, blaming immigrants, blaming anyone but those in power — shows how far we’ve drifted from basic decency.

Mr. President, real leaders take responsibility. They don’t hide behind talking points or scapegoats. They face the truth and fix the problem. You have the power to end this shutdown, to bring people to the table, and to protect Americans’ access to health care. But every day you delay, real families suffer while politicians argue on television.

History won’t remember the slogans. It will remember who had the courage to lead when the country needed it most. The shutdown, the health care chaos, the endless blame game — this isn’t strength, it’s cruelty disguised as policy.

Do better for the people who believed in you — and for the millions who didn’t, but who still have to live with your decisions.