text: "It's all hands on deck," said John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, who nonetheless sees the successful stopping of such cuts, so far, as evidence that poverty issues have gained some traction in the first year of the Trump presidency.
  
  The implication of this comment is that it was the religious world that stopped Trump attacks on healthcare et al
  
  
  I don't think so
  
  I think it was those 4 million women who appeared in DC  the day after the inauguration, it was the 6000 Indivisible groups nationwide with huge numbers  of members (mine has over 600) it was all those huge numbers of folks that turned out over and over again...in Oakland the last group had 70,000 folks, it was the absolutely blocked Congressional phone lines in the Capitol and home districts, it was the district meetings that Congresspersons stopped having because there was so much protest.
  
  It wasn't the religious world..it was just worried citizens