--- title: Mitch McConnell: Disability Protesters Removed From Office description: Capitol Police removed protesters outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Thursday after the health care bill was revealed canonical: https://time.com/4829103/mitch-mcconnell-protest-senate-health-care-bill/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T19:05:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T06:32:24.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Video Shows Disability Advocates Forcibly Removed From Senate Protest og:description: Senate Republicans revealed their Obamacare replacement plan Thursday og:url: https://time.com/4829103/mitch-mcconnell-protest-senate-health-care-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32288f6eceff8269/6988d2e686f68ec7cb6e547e/mcconnell-health-care-bill-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: McDonnell-health-care-bill-protest og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video Shows Disability Advocates Forcibly Removed From Senate Protest twitter:description: Senate Republicans revealed their Obamacare replacement plan Thursday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32288f6eceff8269/6988d2e686f68ec7cb6e547e/mcconnell-health-care-bill-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Video Shows Disability Advocates Forcibly Removed From Senate Protest > Sponsored content. 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US Capitol Police arrest a protestor against the Senate Republican's draft healthcare bill outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 22, 2017. Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:32 AM UTCPublished: Jun 22, 2017 7:05 PM UTC [U.S. Capitol Police](http://time.com/4819158/capitol-police-virginia-shooting-steve-scalise/) forcibly removed demonstrators and disability advocates — some of whom were in wheelchairs — protesting the Senate’s proposed [health care bill](http://time.com/4827805/senate-republican-health-care-obamacare-ahca-draft/?xid=homepage) outside of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office Thursday. Capitol Police said they arrested 43 protesters for refusing to end the demonstration. Organized by ADAPT, a disability rights organization, the protest targeted the [bill’s](http://time.com/4828156/what-the-senate-health-care-bill-means/?xid=homepage) significant cuts to Medicaid for low-income Americans. “No cuts to Medicaid, save our liberties,” the protesters chanted. One protester who was in a wheelchair held a sign reading “life and liberty 4 disabled Americans.” > [](https://twitter.com/MKhan47/status/877910250560643072) “Our lives and liberty shouldn’t be stolen to give a tax break to the wealthy,” Bruce Darling, an ADAPT organizer at the protest, said in a [statement](http://adapt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/June-22-Action-Press-Release.pdf). “That’s truly un-American.” > [](https://twitter.com/desiderioDC/status/877914158787842048) Earlier Thursday, McConnell and other Senate Republicans unveiled the once-closely guarded [draft](http://time.com/money/4828229/senate-health-care-bill-draft/) of the Senate health care bill aimed at dismantling former President Barack Obama’s health care law. In addition to cuts to Medicaid, the bill proposes defunding Planned Parenthood and scales back tax credits for middle-income Americans who purchase their own health insurance. Democrats have fought back against the bill, and four Republican senators [said Thursday](http://time.com/4829024/ahca-senate-bill-rand-paul-ted-cruz-gop-opposition/?xid=homepage) that they are not ready to vote on the bill yet. Republicans would likely need 50 of their 52 senators to vote in support of the bill for it to pass. The version of the bill passed by the House last month would cause 23 million Americans to lose coverage by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office. 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