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Despite being ordered by a Judge, Trump's regime has refused to fully fund SNAP, the food services for 40+ million US Americans. “They tried to use hungry kids as political pawns instead of coming to the table to reopen the government. Shameful,” explained Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
Trump could fund SNAP right now. Instead, his regime is terrorizing our communities by fighting it in courts.
A caring journalist would ask the question: How many people are dying from this very preventable policy?
In this context, we are releasing a new report examining the death toll from Trump's policies since his inauguration just over 9 months ago: "Trump’s bloody hands: Estimated deaths from Trump policies in 2025."
We've weaved evidence together revealing the extraordinary human cost of Trump-era policies in 2025. Our research shows that Trump's policies have caused a minimum of 300,000 deaths globally this year.
You can read our report now.
The surge in deaths tied to reproductive restrictions, immigrant detention, punitive drug policy, and the erosion of transgender rights underscores the reality that policy is not simply rhetoric or political strategy—it is fate written in the lives and deaths of actual people.
As we write in the report:
Our goal is not to catalog every instance, but to widen the lens. We aim to move past the shocking tweets, made-for-television chaos, and palace intrigue to confront a stark reality: the machinery of Trump’s policy, quietly and efficiently, is killing us.…
Put plainly: policy is not abstract. It has a body count. And by every serious measure, the toll of this administration has been staggering.
We urge journalists to look past headlines and scandals, and to take up the urgent, sober work of documenting the full human cost of Trump’s corrupt regime.
History often remembers the noise of a presidency. Justice demands we remember its casualties.
- Choose Democracy
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