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Tell the Senate to reject cuts to Medicaid, ACA, Medicare, and SNAP

The disastrous budget reconciliation package that is now in the Senate will severely harm at-risk communities unless substantial changes are made.

The $295 million in SNAP cuts will increase hunger across the country, hitting children, seniors, and working families the hardest. At a time when food insecurity is still high in many communities, cutting SNAP is both cruel and short-sighted.

Roughly 15 million Americans will lose health coverage because of the $800 billion cut to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act along with other provisions in the House package.

Tens of millions of people with low incomes will lose access to basic needs programs, all to give tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations while inflicting harm on immigrant communities.

We cannot keep allowing the passage of these unfair tax policies that disproportionately benefit the rich while making low-income and vulnerable communities suffer, including by taking food assistance and health care away from millions. That’s not good for our society or economy.

Now more than ever, it’s critical that Congress protect health care, nutrition, and other essential services that help millions of families meet their basic needs. We should strengthen support for these programs—not take them away. We need each and every Senator to get a strong and clear message that their constituents oppose these harmful proposals.

Send a message to your senators demanding they reject cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP in their budget reconciliation package.

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Webinar: Project 2025’s Threats to Human Needs Programs

August 15, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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You’ve probably heard about Project 2025 – which produced a 900+-page compendium of extremist proposals put out by the right-wing Heritage Foundation (although the head of the project left the Heritage Foundation after Project 2025 proved intensely unpopular). So why should you know about these plans? Because they have been developed by many with connections to the former Trump Administration and are similar to certain proposals before Congress now. Whoever wins the election, these proposals to shrink human needs programs may emerge – and we have to be ready.

During this webinar, you’ll learn about Project 2025 proposals to limit Medicaid and other health programs and to eliminate education and early childhood programs as well as limiting access to free school meals. You’ll also learn about efforts to politicize the federal workforce and limit protections for voters and consumers and against discrimination. And very important – you’ll hear about public opinion research showing just how unpopular these proposals are, and how that can strengthen our advocacy for meeting human needs and for basic justice.

Watch a recording of it here.

List of speakers:

  • Julie Tippens, Director of the Legislative, Political and Mobilization Department, American Federation of Government Employees
  • Natasha Murphy, Director, Health Policy, Center for American Progress
  • Lily Klam, Director, Education Policy, First Focus on Children
  • Meeta Anand, Senior Director, Census and Data Equity, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • Bryan Bennett, Navigator Research & Senior Director of Polling & Analytics at The Hub Project
  • Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, Moderator
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August 15, 2024
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Coalition on Human Needs