By cutting $723 Billion from Medicaid (while giving tax breaks to Billionaires), Trump is telling America to:
#GoFundYourself!
So we launched a $723 Billion GoFundMe page.
To crowdfund the billion$$ Trump’s bill is stealing from working families.
While the $723 billion crowdfunding goal is grotesquely impossible (point made), every real dollar donated helps cancel the actual medical debt of working families.
We originally launched this GoFundYourself! effort with a $723B GoFundMe page. But GoFundMe told us to GoFundYourself! [elsewhere], and canceled that page, citing, "XXX." This is what basic healthcare is going to be increasingly like under Trump. Undaunted, we are continuing the fundraising effort here with a direct donation campaign to Undue Medical Debt. Please sign up here and contribute there.
One American with a body that sometimes gets sick summarizes Trump’s GoFundYoursef! message and the need for us to care for each other (preferably not through endless crowdfunding).
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[Press Release]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Americans Launch $723 Billion GoFundMe After Trump Says "#GoFundYourself!" to Sick Americans
With Trump and Musk feuding over who can steal more from struggling Americans, impacted families have launched a provocative GoFundMe page that’s also a real fundraiser to cancel medical debt.
NATIONWIDE – June 18, 2025 — Trump's Big Beautiful Bill slashes $723 billion from Medicaid [1], ripping healthcare away from 13.7 million Americans [2] and causing 21,000 preventable deaths every year[3]—all while adding $3.94 trillion [4] to the national deficit to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Meanwhile, Musk has broken with Trump because he thinks the bill should cut more of the basic services Americans rely on.
In response, Americans have launched a GoFundMe campaign, channeling Trump's implicit message to sick people everywhere: "#GoFundYourself!"
The effort, titled "Trump told America to #GoFundYourself! So here we are," aims to raise the full $723 billion in Medicaid cuts,. The crowdfunder sets a self-evidently impossible goal, while also raising real money to cancel the actual medical debt of struggling families.
A Budget That Reveals Trump's Values: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Healthcare Cuts for the Rest of Us
Trump's bill guts essential healthcare, balloons the deficit, and hands billionaires a windfall. #GoFundYourself! organizers are calling it “Donald’s Death Panels,” “the Healthcare Hunger Games,” and ”plutocracy thinly disguised as populism."
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The Devastating Trade-Off:
LOSERS: $723B cut from healthcare [1]
WINNERS: $1.1T in billionaire tax cuts [5]LOSERS: $300B cut from food stamps [6]
WINNERS: $45B for deportation camps [7]LOSERS: 13.7 million Americans lose healthcare [2]
WINNERS: Top 1% get about one quarter of all tax benefits [8]
Trump's Broken PromisesTRUMP’S PROMISE
"Don't fuck around with Medicaid" [9]
“I’m proud to be the President…who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street.” [10]
"End American carnage."
THE REALITY
Fucks around with Medicaid
Looted healthcare from 13.7 million Main Street Americans to fund Wall Street billionaires
Committing unspeakable “violence by budget cut” that will kill tens of thousands of Americans.[3]
Welcome to the Healthcare Hunger Games
"When people have to crowdfund their cancer treatments while billionaires get tax breaks, the system isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed," said L.M. Bogad, campaign spokesperson and tactical performance expert. "The #GoFundYourself! campaign uses humor as a weapon because sometimes you have to laugh to keep from screaming. While Congress lacks the spine to help people, every dollar we raise is actually canceling real medical debt and liberating families from financial ruin. We're not just making a statement, we're making a difference.”
"This is systematic theft from working families to fund billionaire lifestyles. It’s a crime spree thinly disguised as fiscal responsibility as they blow up the deficit," said Chuck Collins, one of the leaders of the effort."While two oligarchs have a public meltdown over who owns America—Musk spent $270 million thinking he bought the presidency, Trump threatens to cut off government contracts with Tesla, SpaceX, Starlilnk, and other Musk enterprises. When he doesn't get his way, 13.7 million Americans are losing their healthcare. It's like they're stealing your kid's oxygen tank, then invoicing them for 'unauthorized breathing.'" "When my mom needed inpatient care to keep her alive, my family was crushed by medical debt because we couldn't afford insurance. I know firsthand how our broken system destroys families," said Sonia Lazreg, campaign organizer. "That experience, combined with my years as an EMT seeing people delay care because they couldn't pay, inspired me to become an organizer. I couldn't just watch families drown in debt while billionaires get tax breaks. The #GoFundYourself! campaign lets us expose the sheer cruelty of what Trump and his cronies are doing while actually erasing medical debt for real families facing the same impossible choices my family did."
A Joke that is Also a Real Fundraiser
While the $723 billion goal is intentionally impossible, every dollar raised goes directly to Undue Medical Debt, which cancels real medical debt at pennies on the dollar—turning a $10 donation into approximately $1,000 of debt relief for working families. [11]
"We don't expect to raise $723 billion. And we shouldn't have to," the campaign’s GoFundMe page explains. "The government should be funding essential healthcare, not GoFundMe. But while this page is making a point, medical bankruptcy is real, people are rationing insulin, and families are choosing between chemo and rent."
From Creative Protest to Systemic Critique
The #GoFundYourself! campaign represents a new model of activist fundraising that combines sharp political satire with direct mutual aid. "In the richest country in the world, survival now depends on clicks, luck, and making your cancer diagnosis go viral," the campaign notes. "While we have to crowdfund mom's chemotherapy, billionaires are getting tax breaks to buy second yachts."
Who's Behind This
The #GoFundYourself! campaign is led by Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick (and prefer not to die) along with Trillionaires for Trump, Social Security Works, The Other 98%, Progress America, and The Yes Men. Together, they are fusing theatrical activism, policy advocacy, viral messaging, and satirical performance art to expose oligarchic healthcare policies.
#GoFundYourself! chose Undue Medical Debt as the page’s beneficiary because of their proven track record of canceling medical debt at scale, turning every dollar donated into maximum relief for working families crushed by healthcare costs.
Call to Action
Americans can donate to the GoFundMe campaign, share using #GoFundYourself!, and speak out—because thanks to Donald's Death Panels, lives literally depend on it. In America, crowdfunding survival isn't healthcare—it's surrender. And we refuse to surrender.
MEDIA CONTACT: 📧 Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick (and prefer not to die) Americanswhohavebodies@proton.me
🔗 GoFundMe Campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-undue-medical-debt-relief
#GoFundYourself!: www.trillionairesfortrump.org/gofundyourself
🎤 Interviews available with campaign leaders, families affected, and medical debt experts
APPENDIX: Voices from our Partners
"This is what happens when a crooked billionaire and his billionaire buddies run the country like their personal ATM,” said Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works. "Trump is working as hard as he can to steal over $1 trillion in health care from the American people to hand trillions in tax handouts to his billionaire buddies, then telling families to choose between medicine and rent to '#GoFundYourself!.' Donald's Death Panels are an abomination."
"Trump said he'd 'make America great again,' but now we know which era he meant—the Gilded Age, when robber barons lived in mansions while workers died in tenements," said John Sellers, a Director of The Other 98%. "He's making America great again for oligarchs, bringing back the 1890s when the rich had yachts and the poor had cholera. The #GoFundYourself! campaign perfectly exposes this Healthcare Hunger Games, where your ability to survive cancer depends on getting more likes than the next patient. But we don't need charity, we need to fight like hell for an America where healthcare is a right, not a reality show."
"The #GoFundYourself! campaign brilliantly exposes the catastrophic absurdity we've normalized where Americans compete for medical care through social media popularity contests while insurance executives buy a yacht to put inside their other yachts," said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men. "We're just making visible what's already true: when GoFundMe is your national health plan, the system has already said 'go fund yourself!' to millions of Americans. It is unspeakably violent and the very definition of ‘American carnage’."
What Trump's Cronies Past and Present Think About Your Rights
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA): "Well, we all are going to die"
Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID): "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care"
Elon Musk: *"Most of the federal spending is entitlements... that's the big one to eliminate"
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL): *"Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt… we're going to have to do this"
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): *"It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it"*
Alan Simpson (Former Sen.): *"Social Security is a milk cow with 310 million tits"*¹⁴
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Wants to make Medicare and Social Security "discretionary spending" subject to annual votes
Paul Ryan (Former House Speaker): *"We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock"*¹⁶
Mo Brooks (Former Rep.): Implied that people with pre-existing conditions "haven't lived good lives,” or done things “the right way.”
Sources:
[1] $723 billion in Medicaid cuts: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/allocating-cbos-estimates-of-federal-medicaid-spending-reductions-and-enrollment-loss-across-the-states
[2] At least 13.7 million stripped of healthcare:https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-will-the-2025-budget-reconciliation-affect-the-aca-medicaid-and-the-uninsured-rate/
[3] Killing more than 21K a year:
[4] Deficit increase: https://www.crfb.org/blogs/cbo-estimates-3-trillion-debt-house-passed-obbba
[5] tax cuts for billionaires: https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/house-budget-would-increase-costs-and-hardship-for-many-while-providing-huge-tax
[6] 300B cut from SNAP: https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-reconciliation-bill-proposes-deepest-snap-cut-in-history-would-take
[7] $45B for deportation camps https://www.brookings.edu/articles/reconciliation-provisions-impacting-immigrants-and-their-families/
[8] Top 1% get about one quarter of all tax benefits:https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/both-sides-spin-who-would-benefit-from-extending-trump-tax-cuts/
[9] Trump says “don’t fuck around with Medicaid”:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/20/trump-megabill-opposition-medicaid-00358394
[10] Trump says he’s for Main Street over Wall Street: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/icymi-president-trump-is-president-for-main-street-not-wall-street/#:~:text=President%20Trump%20on%20his%20motivations,cheaters%20all%20over%20the%20globe.%E2%80%9D[11] turns $10 donation into approx 1K in erasing medical debt: https://unduemedicaldebt.org/
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[FAQ]
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Yes - the bill that passed the reconciliation process in the house cuts $723 BILLION from the Medicaid budget. If this bill also passes in the Senate, that means 14 million Americans lose their coverage.
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YES. Medicaid assures that the elderly, kids, working families, and people with disabilities have access to life changing and life saving medical care.
The costs Medicaid covers in vulnerable hospitals (like emergency room visits and childbirths) are essential for keeping those hospitals open. The cuts in this bill can be the final blow that closes 190 rural hospitals that are already struggling and on the brink of closure. These communities will have no access to local emergency services and will have to travel much farther to access care.
Medicaid currently covers the long term care nursing facility costs of 2 out of 3 residents. “Medicaid covers more than 60 percent of residents in nursing homes, about 20 percent of people in assisted living, and more than half of all residents of long-term care facilities.”
Medicaid finances about 41% of births in the United States.
Expansions in Medicaid have allowed more people access to early cancer screening and subsequent life-saving treatment as cancer patients and survivors. Cutting back Medicaid coverage will undo this progress.
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That’s true. From his first campaign speeches in 2015 through February of 2025, Trump claimed he would make no cuts to Medicaid.
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Simply put, no. Americans do not want to see cuts in Medicaid. About three out of four people think Medicaid is “very important” for people in their community and 80% of Americans across all parties do not want to see Medicaid cut.
Even leaders in Trump’s own party oppose these cuts. Josh Hawley, Republican Senator representing Missouri states that those who want to cut Medicaid are a, “wing of the party [that] wants Republicans to build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor. But that argument is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.”
Organizations such as the American Hospital Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges as well as a group of 12 Republican congressional representatives have sent letters to congressional leadership warning against these cuts.
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As you see on our campaign page - it would take 1 million fundraisers at our unreachable high goal to make up for this cut in Medicaid funding. Relying on our communities in a time of need is a beautiful thing and there are many giving people out there. Even though medical crowdfunding campaigns have raised a total of about $2 billion, this is a drop in the bucket when compared to annual healthcare spending in the United States at $4.9 trillion.
Additionally, “crowdfunding platforms enable people’s social and economic behaviors by allowing donors and beneficiaries to find each other…But platforms also confine and structure social and economic interactions through various formal and informal rules.” The campaigns reflect biases of who donors see as “worthy” and highly reflect the wealth one has in their social networks. It does not actually assure people are funded by need and marginalized groups have worse fundraising outcomes. Crowdfunding simply is not an equitable solution, nor large enough to be a viable solution to fund medical care.
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The #GoFundYourself! campaign is led by Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick (and prefer not to die) along with Trillionaires for Trump, Social Security Works, The Other 98%, Progress America, and The Yes Men. Together, they are fusing theatrical activism, policy advocacy, viral messaging, and satirical performance art to expose oligarchic healthcare policies.
#GoFundYourself! chose Undue Medical Debt as the page’s beneficiary because of their proven track record of canceling medical debt at scale, turning every dollar donated into maximum relief for working families crushed by healthcare costs.
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Every dollar raised goes directly to Undue Medical Debt, which cancels real medical debt at pennies on the dollar—turning a $10 donation into approximately $1,000 of debt relief for working families.
"We don't expect to raise $723 billion. And we shouldn't have to," the campaign’s GoFundMe page explains. "The government should be funding essential healthcare, not GoFundMe. But while this page is making a point, medical bankruptcy is real, people are rationing insulin, and families are choosing between chemo and rent."