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The holiday season is approaching, and as many people are sitting around family tables sharing a special meal, millions of Americans are struggling to afford enough food.
While the shutdown may be over, cuts made to SNAP in Republicans’ Big Brutal Budget are the largest in the program’s history―$187 billion over 10 years. As a result, we’ll see harsher time limits on benefits on larger numbers of people, including veterans, older adults, people with disabilities, and families with older children, if they cannot document work hours. MORE »
The effects of these cuts are far-reaching. We cannot allow them to continue. Use and share CHN Action’s online tool to send a message today to demand that Congress reverse the cuts made to SNAP.
Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and services at school, at home, in health care.
The proposed changes to SSI appear to be part of a larger agenda by the Trump Administration to disenfranchise children with disabilities. For instance, during the recent government shutdown, the Office of Management and Budget carried out massive reductions in force (RIFs) at agencies that oversee the majority of programs for children, and specifically targeted the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which serve large proportions of children with disabilities. MORE »
Amid the urgent debate over whether Congress will act to prevent cost increases for millions of people in 2026 marketplace plans, some Republicans are promoting expansions of health savings accounts (HSAs). But expanding HSAs mainly benefits wealthier people and would do nothing to address impending premium increases for some 22 million people with low and moderate incomes who are facing higher costs. Instead, Congress should extend premium tax credit (PTC) enhancements to ensure enrollees continue to have access to affordable health coverage.
HSAs don’t improve health care affordability and would not offset the loss of coverage if Congress allows the PTC enhancements to expire. Most people do not have spare cash to set aside in HSAs; an estimated 4 in 10 people are in debt due to medical and dental bills. MORE »
President Trump and/or his minions in Congress have done a lot to hurt people this year. Firing workers who protect public health, canceling projects to spur economic development, slashing protections for children with disabilities and protections against housing discrimination, and the Big Brutal bill with its drastic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP while shoveling trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy – these are unprecedented attacks on millions of Americans.
This is the time to make sure that every representative and senator know how much constituents want the harm to stop. You can help – and we’ve put together state data from several sources, here: The Struggle to Pay for Health Care and Food is Getting Worse – so you can tell your rep and senators that they must act now to protect their constituents from unaffordable health care and food costs. MORE »
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