Meredith Dodson,

September 30, 2025

Letter to Congress

CHN urges Senators to vote no on any spending proposals, including H.R. 5371, the House’s partisan CR expected on the floor again this week, that does not include enforceable instructions on how congressionally approved funding must be spent and address health costs, including extending the enhanced ACA Premium Tax Credit before families get notices about skyrocketing health increases before November 1.

CHN Staff,

September 18, 2025

Letter to Congress

CHN urges Congress to vote no on any appropriations legislation, including a short-term CR, that does not include enforceable instructions on how congressionally approved funding must be spent in any spending package, along with extending expiring funding to stop efforts to “run out the clock", and address health costs including extending the enhanced ACA Premium Tax Credit before families get notices about skyrocketing health increases before November 1.

Deborah Weinstein,

September 17, 2025

Remarks to the CHN community

The Coalition on Human Needs is small, but the human needs community is large. We are facing unprecedented attacks on our democratic rights to advocate to meet the needs of all of our people.

Sierra Wilson,

September 15, 2025

WIC funding cuts are likely to drive up the cost of health care and ultimately increase federal government spending. A robust WIC program can help keep more than 200,000 people out of poverty in a single year.

Gina Plata-Nino, JD,

September 12, 2025

Blog post by FRAC, a member of CHN

Time limits are a cut to SNAP and ignore the structural and personal barriers that many SNAP recipients face — including unstable job markets, part-time work with insufficient hours, unpaid caregiving, and jobs that do not provide documentation needed to prove work activity