The Senate is racing to finalize a bill that could eliminate coverage for millions. For Latinos, the consequences would be devastating.
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The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the Senate Budget Package
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.
CHN Urges the Senate to Oppose Deep Cuts to SNAP, Reject the Senate Budget Package
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 and Overall Budget Package, Vote No on Harmful Amendments
CHN urges the Senate to oppose Medicaid/ACA cuts plus the overall budget package, vote no on harmful amendments.
How Reconciliation Cuts Harm Civil Rights
The reconciliation process is primarily being used to fund tax cuts for the wealthy; propose deep cuts to essential services like Medicaid and SNAP.
Join the National Day of Action to Protect Basic Needs Programs
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 Urges the Senate to Oppose the Agriculture Committee Proposal that Deeply Cuts SNAP and Exacerbates Hunger
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
Starving the Poor to Feed the Rich
Why is food for children, families, people with disabilities, workers, and seniors on the chopping block? To fund tax breaks for the rich.
Tell the Tinpot Dictator: NO KINGS
We have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families apart and tell Congress to reject the big brutal budget bill.
House Republican budget bill gives Trump $185 billion to carry out his mass deportation agenda—while doing nothing for workers
In just a few months, Trump’s deportation troops have repeatedly arrested and deported the wrong people, including U.S. citizens and sent innocent people to gulags designed for terrorists.
House Bill’s $164 Billion Giveaway to Multinational Corporations Puts America Last
The House’s recently passed tax bill changes course on taxing multinational corporations engaged in shifting U.S. profits overseas, offering massive tax giveaways that weaken American revenues and risk sending more American corporate investment offshore.
Fear and worry in New Mexico over cuts to food assistance
AFSCME Council 18 members, community members, and New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján raised alarms about the impact that cutting federal food assistance would have on the communities they serve.