In a blatant example of George Soros’ influence over progressive causes, a group of far-left activists got themselves arrested for protesting the Big Beautiful Bill’s cuts to Medicaid at the U.S. Capitol — and the group that organized the protest reportedly receives over $1 million in funding from Soros.
For context, on June 25, 2025, 34 protestors were arrested at the U.S. Capitol Building for unlawfully demonstrating inside the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building. The protestors came to D.C. to speak out against the proposed Medicaid cuts within President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, and a reported 33 were arrested for demonstrating inside a congressional building, while another individual was arrested for crossing a police line.
In addition, following the arrests, it was revealed that the Center for Popular Democracy, a group funded by George Soros, was one of the key groups that organized the protest. Moreover, in an interview with NBC Washington, the group’s co-director, Analilila Mejia, said that the demonstration was “about humanity,” adding that “almost half of births in the United States are covered by Medicaid.”
Continuing, Mejia said that the protestors were concerned about their well-being because of their reliance on Medicaid, explaining, “When you think about the number of Americans who, without their insulin, without their heart medication, they would simply die —then, what this is about is keeping people alive.”
Importantly, the Washington Examiner’s Andrew Kerr pointed out in a 2022 article on the Center for Popular Democracy that the co-executive director of the organization’s sister group, CPD Action, Andrew Friedman, admitted in a 2018 Washington Post interview that both CPD Action and the Center for Popular Democracy “receive over $1 million a year from Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Furthermore, according to the non-profit watchdog InfluenceWatch, the Center for Popular Democracy is a “left-of-center 501(c)(3) organization involved in voter mobilization and policy development. “In addition, InfluenceWatch noted that Mejia was “previously the deputy director of the women’s bureau at the Biden Administration’s U.S Department of Labor.”
In addition, InfluenceWatch pointed out that the Center for Popular Democracy was linked with the harassment of former Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in October 2021. According to InfluenceWatch, a member of CPD’s leadership followed the senator “into a bathroom at Arizona State University, where she taught several classes,”
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Moreover, the watchdog reported that the member of CBD leadership then “filmed Sen. Sinema in the bathroom while pressuring her into pass (sic) a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill backed by Sen. Sinema’s fellow Senate Democrats, and harassing her for her stance on immigration policies.” In addition, CPD also reportedly organized protestors to accost former Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “on kayaks” outside of the senator’s houseboat.
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