John,

They’ve done it.

After passage in the House, the Big Brutal Bill is now headed to Donald Trump’s desk, where more than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, hundreds of billions of dollars in SNAP cuts, and a massive increase in Trump’s immigrant detention and removal machine will be signed into law.

All of this pain and suffering so that the super-rich and corporations can get a tax break.

We may have lost this battle, but we will not stop reminding the American people that this devastating budget will result in 17 million losing health coverage¹ and 51,000 preventable deaths each year, collateral damage in the rush to hand out trillions of dollars in tax give-aways to millionaires, billionaires, and corporate interests.² 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.³

Donate $5 today to keep advocating for vulnerable communities as they suffer relentless attacks from this administration and a slim majority in Congress.

None of this had to happen.

Public opinion is on our side. The majority of American voters do not like the policies in this Big Brutal Bill. The fact that it kept getting worse as congressional Republicans sought to win over some of the most extreme members of their caucus underscores that it is a bill for the ultra-wealthy and extreme, not the majority of Americans.

We’re not giving up. Additional negotiations are taking place in Congress right now, with the need to pass 2026 spending bills this fall. These will give us opportunities to fight back and work to protect human needs from more draconian cuts—programs providing affordable housing, child care, infant and toddler food assistance, education, public health protections, and so much more.  

We pledge this: we are not giving up on basic health care and nutrition programs either. We will work to expose the cruel and shortsighted consequences of this bill; we will continue to expand our coalition of conscience and commonsense, to advance the services that people need.

Every day, we will get up and fight for low-income, rural, and immigrant communities to be able to live in safety and with dignity, just as we have been for the last 44 years. But we need your support to make it happen.

Donate $5 today to power our fight for a better future.

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Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ 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
² Research Memo: Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
³ How the Senate Budget Reconciliation SNAP Proposals Will Affect Families in Every US State