The Senate is expected to vote on its version of the Big Brutal Bill this week and—like its House counterpart—it’s devastating for nutrition and health care programs for vulnerable communities.
The Senate proposal includes the largest cut to SNAP in history, as part of a budget package that guts basic needs programs.
The bill also contains the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, and will result in 16 million people losing their health insurance. A recent analysis of the House-passed bill found that because of the cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and reduced staffing requirements at nursing homes, 51,000 people will die each year.
Additionally, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as many as 330 rural hospitals nationwide could close or reduce services as a result of this bill. And, new research shows that cuts to Medicaid along with SNAP will reduce jobs by 1.2 million nationwide, equivalent to about a 0.8% increase in the unemployment rate.
Cutting the heart out of basic needs programs including SNAP and Medicaid doesn’t save states or the federal government money—it denies care and creates bigger problems down the road, shifting the burden to service providers, local governments, and taxpayers. This will lead to higher costs and more strain on budgets—household and state budgets alike. And it will cost lives.
It’s not too late to change course. Now more than ever, it’s critical that the Senate act to 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
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We urge the Senate to consider the serious consequences of this unprecedented shifting of resources away from people with low and moderate incomes to those with very high incomes while increasing the debt, and to stop the headlong rush to pass this legislation by an artificial deadline.
For the first time, 900,000 parents living in every state with children over 13 years old are at risk of losing SNAP after just 3 months.
CHN urges the Senate to oppose Medicaid/ACA cuts plus the overall budget package, vote no on harmful amendments.
The reconciliation process is primarily being used to fund tax cuts for the wealthy; propose deep cuts to essential services like Medicaid and SNAP.
Please join us and our coalition partners on Wednesday, June 18, for a critical day of action to demand the Senate reject cuts to human needs programs and protect health care and nutrition access for tens of millions of people.
CHN strongly urges members of the U.S. Senate to reject the budget reconciliation package as being formulated, based on the text released this week by the Senate Agriculture Committee along with our overarching concerns about deep cuts to basic needs programs
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