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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Every two years, the Coalition on Human Needs enlists expert staff from its member organizations to update its Public Policy Priorities, assembling a comprehensive set of policies aimed at ensuring that people can meet their basic needs and move forward as they choose.
Eliminating Direct File, the new and free digital tax-filing tool from the IRS, is literally taking money out of people’s pockets. Trump’s decision is a slap in the face to millions of hardworking people.
CHN sent the letter below on April 9, 2025 to the U.S. House of Representatives asking Members to vote “No” on H.R. 22, the SAVE Act.
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Blog post by NILC, CHN’s member | This explainer describes how a reconciliation bill will unlock the Trump administration’s ability to experiment with authoritarian tactics through enforcement, threatening constitutional rights and democratic norms.
CHN sent this letter to all Senators, asking them to reject the budget resolution which will pave the way for deep cuts to food assistance and health care, turbocharge family separation and mass deportation, and set the stage for huge tax breaks that benefit the wealthy.
Blog post by CBPP- CHN’s member | The House budget resolution calls for massive cuts in Medicaid and in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would raise the cost of health care and groceries for people struggling to make ends meet.
Blog post by the Southern Poverty Law Center, CHN’s member | There are days when Andrew Sanders walks miles for a hot meal from a soup kitchen. “It hurts like hell,” he said. “I’m dying for something to eat.”
Blog post by UnidosUS- CHN’s member | If the pending House Budget Resolution passes and is implemented in Budget Reconciliation, the SNAP (food stamps) would experience its largest cuts in history.
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