Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters.
From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.
The killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis are not an isolated tragedies, but part of a disturbing pattern of callous and inhumane disregard of life and law. These deaths, and the shockingly high number of deaths and harm inflicted in ICE detention and raids, require Congress to stop negotiations on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill until careful investigations lead to Congress’ reining in of the reckless tactics of Secretary Noem, ICE Acting Director Lyons, and their underlings.
Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention facilities in over 20 years, with 32 deaths in 2025.
Right now, Congress is negotiating government the funding bill. We can stop this if we raise our voices together.
Click here to start writing to send a message to your senators and representative demanding Congress immediately stop funding DHS and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
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Trump and minions have used the government shutdown to intensify the hurt. This is the time to make sure that every representative and senator know how much constituents want the harm to stop — and here are tools to help you make noise.
The Coalition on Human Needs and our partners are deeply concerned that millions of families won’t get their full SNAP benefits this month. This political posturing is causing direct harm to tens of millions of people, especially children, older adults, and people with disabilities, in every state and Congressional District. In this post, we share resources from our members and partners, calling on policymakers to fully fund SNAP this month and prioritize anti-hunger policies.
Small business owners are sounding the alarm as Congress lets the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) edge toward expiration with no alternative in place — a change that could raise health costs for millions and force many small business owners to make difficult choices about their operations, their employees’ health insurance, and even their own coverage.
Republican tax cuts boost their fortunes to dizzying heights even as workers lose paychecks & families are denied services
For millions, the ACA’s Marketplace insurance has provided affordable health coverage. And once the enhanced premium tax credits were enacted, ACA’s coverage for individuals got more affordable.
After serving as CHN’s executive director for more than two decades, Deborah has informed CHN’s Board of Directors and staff that she plans to retire at the end of June, 2026.
Imagine standing in line to register to vote—excited, maybe a little nervous—only to be told you can’t. Not because you’re ineligible, but because you don’t have the right kind of paperwork in your hand. No passport, no birth certificate? No vote.
Across the country, 22 million Americans use health care tax credits to afford their health care coverage. With costs for everything rising, from groceries to rent to health care, without the support of these tax credits as many as 4 million Americans could be priced out of health care they need.
Members of Congress should get back to work to meet three urgent needs now: extend the ACA tax credits, require that bipartisan funding enacted by Congress is spent, that autocratically frozen or cancelled funds for programs be made available now, and reopen government with funding levels adequate to prevent cuts.
At an interfaith event held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church near the U.S. Capitol on October 9, lay and clergy faith leaders called on Congress to end the federal government shutdown by coming to swift agreement to keep health insurance affordable for millions of people and to protect other basic needs programs from reckless cutbacks.
At the Coalition on Human Needs, we share stories like these because they matter. They matter not only as data points, but as lived experiences — stories of families, workers, and seniors who are just trying to get by in a country where the basics have become harder and harder to afford. Read some of these stories and if they touched you, don’t just scroll past. Share this blog. Share the form to document the impact of cuts. Help us spread the word so that those most affected can be heard.
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.