Policies Unfairly Target Children

This letter to the editor, by Linda Vivoda-Sadée appeared in the Pierce County Journal on May 28, 2025.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, how much money you make, or what you look like; most of us believe children deserve food, care, and protection. However, Trump/Musk/MAGA are unfairly ripping food security and healthcare away from hungry, sick and poor children to gift handouts to billionaires.

They obviously don’t value children because they are decimating critically necessary services, SNAP and Medicaid and bulldozing past the cries of the most vulnerable: our children and our future. How dare they use vulnerable children as collateral damage to pay for handouts that do nothing but make billionaires wealthier while devastating our families, undermining our freedoms, and threatening our futures?!

It’s beyond heartbreaking to take away life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from children!

But we know that when we stand up and speak out, we change people’s hearts and minds. We did it in the WI Supreme Court election, when “the many defeated the money” and we won by double digits! We must use our same collective voices to tell Rep. Tom Tiffany, Rep. Derrick Van Orden and Sen. Ron Johnson, we won’t allow billionaire handouts on the backs of children. Our children deserve food, care, and protection! Make it clear; we expect the wealthy to pay their fair share!