AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
July 25: AACN signed onto a letter led by the Committee for Education Funding, Coalition on Human Needs, Coalition for Health Funding, and Campaign to Invest in America’s Workforce to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The letter urges the Committees to increase funding for various health, education, and workforce programs in the Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
July 14: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter thanking the Senators and Representatives who introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S.1874/H.R.3593).
July 14: AACN sent a letter to Representative Judy Chu (D-CA-27) and Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) thanking them for introducing the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act (H.R.3711/S.1948).
June 30: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter welcoming Dr. Courtney Aklin as the new Interim Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).
June 27: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter to Senate leadership expressing concerns with cuts to federal student aid and new taxes on higher education institutions proposed in the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees’ budget reconciliation bills.
June 25: AACN signed onto a letter led by the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention, American Medical Women’s Association, HealthyWomen, The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, and the Society for Women’s Health Research. The letter urged Senate leadership, as well as the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee, to reject proposed cuts to the Medicaid program in the Committee’s budget reconciliation bill due to their impact on women’s and child health care.
June 23: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter thanking Representatives Tim Walberg (R-MI-05) and Joe Courtney (D-CT-02) for introducing the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (H.R.3170), and supporting its passage this Congress. This bipartisan bill would retire outdated barriers in the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) that limit the ability of nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose and oversee the care and treatment of federal employees who are injured or become ill in the course of their employment.