On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and strongly encourage them to cosponsor the Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act, S. 204, if they haven’t already. Introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the bill was introduced with 43 co-sponsors and has bipartisan support. The Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act would allow terminally ill patients to have access to potentially lifesaving drugs when no other alternatives exist.

Earlier today, a quartet of Republican senators — Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) — introduced the Patient Freedom Act, S. 191. The bill, they say, is a comprehensive replacement for ObamaCare after it's repealed, the process for which is currently underway in Congress.

Among President Donald Trump's first acts in the Oval Office on Friday was putting his signature on a rather lengthy executive order that deals a major blow to ObamaCare. The executive order states that it's the policy of the Trump administration to repeal the 2010 health care law and gives the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), presumably nominee Rep. Tom Price, M.D. (R-Ga.), who is awaiting Senate confirmation, "all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation" of ObamaCare.

With the passage of S.Con.Res. 3, the FY 2017 budget resolution, Congress has started the process of repealing ObamaCare through reconciliation. Although the budget resolution spends far too much and increases publicly held debt by $9 trillion, its purpose is to direct relevant committees to make recommendations to repeal ObamaCare. It will not be sent to the president for approval.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to support the HHS Slush Fund Elimination Act, S. 3481. Introduced by Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Nebr.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the HHS Slush Fund Elimination Act would prevent the Obama administration from circumventing Congress to bail out health insurance companies that participated in ObamaCare.