From Saima Akhtar <e-news@nclej.org>
Subject A devastating increase in poverty
Date December 12, 2024 7:00 PM
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If you don’t already know me, my name is Saima Akhtar, and I’m a Senior Attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.

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Dear Friend,

If you don’t already know me, my name is Saima Akhtar, and I’m a Senior Attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. With our End-of-Year fundraising deadline quickly approaching, I’m reaching out to explain why your support in these final days of 2024 are so important. ([link removed])

During his first term, Trump proposed a 30% budget cut to SNAP (food stamps) as well as changes to work requirements that would have kicked more than three-quarters of a million low-income people off the program, had legal intervention been unavailable to stop them. Under Trump’s incoming second term, we can once again expect significant policy changes that take aim at critical anti-hunger programs and risk massively increasing food insecurity for low-income Americans.

Project 2025 outlines several major changes to SNAP, including increased work requirements, reducing benefit amounts, eliminating expanded eligibility up to 200% of poverty that most states rely on, and curtailing benefits available to low-income households who also receive utility assistance. Project 2025 also outlines changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that will weaken regulatory protections in the production of baby formula and reform the voucher program.

The collective changes proposed for Trump’s second term would reduce the number of households eligible for these life-saving public benefits by millions across the country. They would potentially knock a quarter of the current recipients off these programs and make it much harder for people who currently rely on SNAP and WIC to keep their benefits. This would result in a devastating increase in poverty, especially child poverty.

NCLEJ will play a central role in the efforts to safeguard public benefits for millions of people under the incoming administration. Organizations like ours’ are the first line of defense against Trump’s extreme policies.

By donating to help us reach our End-of-Year fundraising goal, you are directly supporting our efforts to defend access to life-saving public benefits for millions of people. I urge you to donate in support of NCLEJ’s mission. ([link removed])

Thank you,

Saima Akhtar
Senior Attorney, NCLEJ
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