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Send a message thanking those who stood up and voted against this monstrosity of a bill, or send a message to your members of Congress who voted for it, admonishing them for their vote.

Congress has enacted the Big Brutal Bill and Donald Trump has signed it into law.

This bill is deadly.

According to researchers from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts plus other health care cuts—the largest in history—will result in the deaths of 51,000 people per year. Those deaths include 18,200 people who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, 20,000 people who will lose health care coverage due to the elimination of the premium tax credit for the Affordable Care Act, and 13,000 deaths due to staffing cuts at nursing homes.

At a time when so many are struggling to afford the basic costs of living including groceries, new data from the Urban Institute shows that 5.3 million families will lose $25 or more per month in SNAP benefits, with the average such family losing $146 a month in help paying for food. Sixty-two percent of the families experiencing these very large SNAP losses include children.

All of this is being done in order to pay for extending the Trump tax scam—making tax breaks for the rich permanent—and funding Trump’s mass immigration detention and removal machine.

Congress needs to hear from you. Send a message thanking those who stood up and voted against this monstrosity of a bill, or send a message to your members of Congress who voted for it, admonishing them for their vote.

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Lecia Imbery

Lecia Imbery is CHN's Deputy Director. Lecia has over 17 years of experience in advocacy, civic engagement, volunteer management, fundraising and program management in the nonprofit field. Prior to joining CHN, Lecia managed federal and state grassroots advocacy campaigns at the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of University Women. Before coming to DC in 2006, Lecia worked for nonprofits and engineering firms in San Francisco and Chicago. In addition to her commitment to social and economic justice issues, Lecia is an avid animal lover and volunteers at the Washington Animal Rescue League. Lecia has degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois.

Posts by Lecia Imbery:

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  • CHN: President Biden’s FY24 Budget Invests in Critical Human Needs Programs  
  • CHN: Select Biden Administration FY24 Departmental Budget Requests  
  • First Look at Poverty, Hardship, and Health Insurance 2022: Federal Investments Pay Off and Lift Millions Out of Poverty
  • CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: FY23 Appropriations Update, Inflation Reduction Act, and more
  • CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: A look at the Inflation Reduction Act
  • CHN: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 with Some Important Human Needs Provisions Clears the Senate
  • CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: FY23 spending bills, reconciliation update, gun safety, and more
  • CHN: House Begins Work on FY23 Spending Bills; Senate Work Pending
  • CHN: Advocates Continue to Push for Reconciliation Package with Human Needs Provisions