John,

The Senate is moving too far, too fast on their Big Brutal Bill that, if you can believe it, is even worse than the House-passed version. Late last night, shortly after the Senate passed their motion to consider the bill on the floor, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office put out updated projections showing 16.9 million Americans will lose health coverage as a result of this package.^1,2 Those projections also show that the Senate cuts SNAP funding by more than one-fifth, the largest cut in history³, at a time that many families are struggling with the costs of basic needs.

A Pew Research Poll shows that by wide margins, 53% to 27%, when people know what’s in the bill, they reject it.⁴ Even a FOX News poll agrees:⁵

We’re doing everything we can to sound the alarm, spending our weekend writing Congressional staff about the latest changes in the bill while the Senate debates the package on the floor to lift up how it will harm communities, meeting with policymakers, generating calls and emails, feeding information to partners on the ground, and more. We need to stop the Big Brutal Budget in its tracks—and your support is critical to make that happen.

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Together, we’re demanding a future for all of us, not just the wealthy few.

Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ CBO: Information About the Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
² Stan Dorn, Unidos on X: Based on new CBO findings the number of uninsured resulting from the Senate bill is nearly 17 million -- more than the 16 million whom CBO found would lose coverage under the House bill
³ Bobby Kogan, CAP on X: The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.
⁴ How Americans view the GOP’s budget and tax bill
⁵ Fox News Poll Spells Bad News for Donald Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill'

-- DEBORAH'S EMAIL --

John,

In a matter of hours the Senate will start debating the Big Brutal Bill with a goal of passing it tomorrow. But each step of the way, this bill has gotten worse―and significantly worse than the House-passed version.

The Senate budget makes even harsher cuts to SNAP food benefits by reducing support for veterans, people who are homeless, stay-at-home parents (even if a spouse works), and young people aging out of foster care. It does this by adding burdensome work reporting requirements that are shown to harm eligible beneficiaries while showing no measurable increase to employment rates.

The Senate version will cause even more people to lose their health insurance, again forcing paperwork requirements onto previously exempt populations including parents with dependent children while directly attacking the 40 states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Congress is going too far, too fast and as a result is seeking to pass a bill that its own members don’t fully understand. All they really know is that the bill hands massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations―the very people they are looking to please.

Rush a donation today to power our advocacy and activism that is holding Congress accountable and fighting back against this disastrous bill.

Each day, we hear of another aspect of the bill that the Senate Parliamentarian has ruled out of bounds for budget reconciliation―meaning that without changes, the Senate would need a 60-vote majority to pass their bill. But as they address those violations, instead of removing some of the most severe cuts, they simply make the bill worse.

In fact, just look at how the the massive tax breaks for the wealthy in the current version of the Senate bill would increase our nation’s debt by $4.5 trillion:¹

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Together, we’re reminding Congress that the American people, by wide margins, reject this massive upward transfer of wealthy from low-income and working people to the richest 1%.

Thank you,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Senate Reconciliation Bill Could Add Over $4 Trillion to Debt