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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Thousands of people die each year waiting for disability benefits and millions of Americans now face real barriers to accessing their earned benefits after paying in over their entire working lives.
Blog post by the Southern Poverty Law Center, CHN’s member | The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a budget resolution in late February that proposes billions of dollars in cuts that would force major changes to Medicaid.
Blog post by RESULTS, CHN’s member | Tens of millions of Americans like me rely on public programs to get back on their feet. The GOP wants to slash that help to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
Blog post by RESULTS, CHN’s member. Cutting SNAP negatively impacts local economies, farmers, grocers, and restaurants. It forces families to choose between food, rent, and health care.
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Instead of bipartisan legislation prioritizing investments in human needs, the Republican-led Congress rubber stamped the Trump’s cuts. These large scale cuts are their own form of a government shutdown and will take decades to recover from.
The Trump Administration’s plan to turn IRS agents into deportation agents will result in lower tax collections in addition to the harm done to the families and communities directly affected by deportations.
Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.
When people go without health care and go without nutritious food because they do not receive Medicaid or SNAP, their health and life chances suffer.