Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM

RE: Congressional Republicans are trying to rush this massive bill through the House and Senate

Together let’s stop this proposal that would take health care away from 16 million Americans and leave millions more struggling to put food on the table. John, The U.S. Senate is rushing to pass their Big Brutal Budget Bill this coming week, before Congress brea…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Congressional Republicans are trying to rush this massive bill through the House and Senate

Together let’s stop this proposal that would take health care away from 16 million Americans and leave millions more struggling to put food on the table. John, There’s an old sports adage, “leave it all on the field.” That’s exactly what we’re doing, opposing th…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM

[TAKE ACTION] Demand the Senate defend clean energy credits

Families with lower incomes will be hit hard by even higher energy costs. John, The Senate released its version of the Big Brutal Bill, which would effectively cancel thousands of solar, wind, and clean energy projects, resulting in higher energy costs nationwi…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM

Millions of people are at risk of losing healthcare and nutrition assistance

There’s still time to stop this disastrous budget! John, After passing the House, the Senate has unveiled their tweaked version of the Big Brutal Budget Bill so they can try to pass it on the Senate floor next week. Despite some politicians claiming that peopl…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Re: Join CHN and Sen. Ron Wyden Tuesday for an Emergency Virtual Rally

With a vote expected in the Senate next week, we’re rallying with our allies on Capitol Hill and across the country to defend the most vulnerable members of our communities. John, I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss Deborah’s message from yesterday—with an exc…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM

Join CHN and Sen. Ron Wyden Tuesday for an Emergency Virtual Rally

With a vote expected in the Senate next week, we’re rallying with our allies on Capitol Hill and across the country to defend the most vulnerable members of our communities. John, Later today, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to release its portion of th…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Re: They don’t want you to notice their budget that slashes basic needs programs, including SNAP

Together, we have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families and communities apart and subverting our democracy. John, Yesterday was the largest nationwide protest yet of this authoritarian administration and its brutal policies…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM

We’re a democracy, not a monarchy

Millions of people are taking to the streets today to say ‘No Kings’! John, Today, we’re rising up across the country for No Kings Day, a nationwide rally for democracy. Donald Trump wants to celebrate himself with tanks, troops, and authoritarian pageantry. Bu…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM

They don’t want you to notice their budget that slashes basic needs programs, including SNAP

Together, we have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families and communities apart and subverting our democracy. John, Injustice is in front of our eyes. Immigrants are seized after arriving at appointments to comply with immigr…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM

ICYMI: Voices for Human Needs blog weekly round-up

Last week on the Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, Thank you for your continued support and readership of the Voices for Human Needs blog. Please check out new and timely pieces from us, including features from our members - Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Institute f…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM

This strategy is critical to stopping the GOP budget >>

This week, we’re partnering with our allies at People’s Action. John, Many of us are constituents of senators and representatives who are certain to vote against the Congressional Republicans’ disastrous budget. While it’s still important to let them know you su…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Trump wants $45 million for his military parade

Congress must prevent millions in taxpayer dollars from being squandered on gross displays of authoritarianism. John, Donald Trump is demanding Congress fund a massive military parade in Washington, D.C. this Saturday in honor of his 79th birthday. This taxpaye…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Attend a “No Kings” Day Rally near you on Saturday

We’re standing up against authoritarianism this weekend, and every day. John, Across the country, people are rising up to say loud and clear: No Kings. No Crowns. This Saturday, June 14, communities are coming together at 2,000 “No Kings” Day rallies across the …

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM

BREAKING: ICE Raids in Los Angeles

Over the weekend, we saw the Trump administration escalate its mass immigration deportation machine in Los Angeles. John, ICE raids are once again spreading fear and trauma in immigrant communities—and people across the country are rising up to protest the retu…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Re: “51,000 Americans Will Die Every Year”

We’re demanding the U.S. Senate reject the House-passed budget. John, Republicans are in damage control mode after moving too far, too fast with their budget that passed the House by a single vote.1 Thanks to our pressure, Republican Senators are looking to…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Republicans just admitted they didn’t know what they were voting for

We’re demanding the U.S. Senate reject the House-passed budget. John, “Well, we’re all going to die.” That was Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) at a recent town hall, flippantly responding to constituents’ concerns about Republicans’ mass cuts to Medicaid.1 Now, two …

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM

Re: Congress is trying to defund our public schools

Congress has proposed expanding school voucher programs with a tax break that could decimate local schools nationwide. John, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ budget would add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit, would leave 16 million people without…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM

[TAKE ACTION] Tell the Senate to reject a national school voucher program

Congress has proposed expanding school voucher programs with a tax break that could decimate local schools nationwide. John, Public schools are under attack. In the budget bill that recently passed the House, some provisions would divert taxpayer dollars away f…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Re: $150 billion for Trump’s deportation machine

The budget bill passed by the House includes harmful anti-immigrant provisions that help fund Trump’s mass deportation machine. John, When House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation package, they cut more than a trillion dollars from critical human ne…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM

4.5 million children could be excluded from the Child Tax Credit

The budget bill passed by the House includes harmful anti-immigrant provisions that help fund Trump’s mass deportation machine. John, After passing the House, the Senate is now debating a budget bill that threatens to exclude millions of immigrants here lawfull…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM

These decisions have real-life consequences

Critical programs like Medicaid and SNAP are on the chopping block in Congress. John, The House passed its massive budget package last month, and now it’s in the Senate, where Majority Leader John Thune hopes to get it passed and onto Trump’s desk by the July 4t…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

June 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Re: Fight back against these shameful attacks on immigrants and families

Together, we’re reminding our elected officials that immigrants are our family members, our neighbors, our colleagues; they strengthen our communities. John, Under the House-passed budget, 4.5 million citizen or legal permanent resident children will be denied a…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Fight back against these shameful attacks on immigrants and families

Together, we’re reminding our elected officials that immigrants are our family members, our neighbors, our colleagues; they strengthen our communities. John, Yesterday Dominique wrote to you about how the Trump administration is weaponizing the IRS to power ICE’…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM

The IRS should be auditing millionaire tax cheats, not helping ICE deport our neighbors

The Trump administration’s targeting of mixed-status and undocumented families has always been about cruelty, not justice. John, Tax information should never be weaponized for deportation. Undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes each ye…

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM

Re: Take Action: The disastrous budget bill is now in the Senate

There is still time to stop more than one trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP. John, The draconian budget reconciliation bill that is now in the Senate will severely harm at-risk communities unless substantial changes are made—and your voic…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Protect Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

There is still time to stop more than one trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP. John, Last week, House Republicans passed their disastrous budget reconciliation bill by a single vote. Now the legislation heads to the Senate, where we have a …

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM

[TAKE ACTION] Save the USPS

Donald Trump and his Wall Street buddies want to privatize the United States Postal Service. John, Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies are once again trying to privatize the United States Postal Service. Their goal is simple: break it apart and sell off its…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Re: We’re making the Billionaire Budget toxic in the Senate

Trump’s own alma mater says working people will lose money from this Billionaire Budget. John, Senators may be home for their Memorial Day recess, but we’re making sure they don’t get any rest. We’re ramping up our pressure, demanding they reject the House-passe…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM

ICYMI: Voices for Human Needs blog weekly round-up

Last week on the Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, Over the last week, CHN published many timely pieces on the Voices for Human Needs blog, featuring articles from our member organizations: Justice in Aging, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and Institute for Taxa…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Your voices are making an impact

Trump’s own alma mater says working people will lose money from this Billionaire Budget. John, Our fight to stop this Billionaire Budget is far from over. Over the last several months, as we were sending hundreds of thousands of messages to Congress opposing th…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM

BREAKING: House just passed $1 trillion cuts to human needs programs

House passes massive tax package, which now goes on to the Senate. John, During the early morning hours, the House passed its grossly mis-named “Big Beautiful Budget,” which is really a multi-trillion-dollar tax handout to millionaires at the expense of middle- …

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM

BREAKING: The House is set to vote on the Billionaire Budget this week

Your members of Congress need to hear from you ASAP to stop this bill. John, As I stood outside on the Capitol Steps with partners to bear witness1, at 1 am this morning the House Rules Committee started their marathon consideration of the House’s Billionaire B…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM

The House trying to jam votes on the billionaire budget this week

The House is pushing a vote on the billionaire budget before Memorial Day weekend. John, House Republicans are hoping to pass their billionaire budget before Memorial Day weekend and we need your help to stop it. This bill makes permanent the Trump tax scam tha…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM

RSVP Tonight: Join me, Ron Wyden, and movement leaders for an emergency virtual rally

Join us tonight, Monday, May 19th from 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET/4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT. John, After a late-night House Budget Committee vote last night, congressional Republicans appear to be on track to vote on their disastrous budget bill this week, before Memorial …

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM

[TAKE ACTION] Demand Congress reject funding for Trump’s mass deportation machine

Republicans in Congress want to cut billions of dollars in human needs programs in order to increase funding for Trump’s mass deportation machine. John, Extremists in Congress and the Trump administration are waging a war on vulnerable communities. They want to …

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM

A $5 trillion tax scam

Republicans are about to cut more than $1 trillion in funding for Medicaid and SNAP in order to fund tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. John, Congress is rushing to pass a $5 trillion tax giveaway1, mostly to the ultra-wealthy and big corporations, and they plan to…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Re: People will go hungry, and go without health care, for what? More tax cuts for billionaires.

We need to keep the pressure on Congress to reject this Billionaire Budget. John, The budget package that Speaker Johnson is planning to bring up for a vote next week would result in roughly 14 million people losing their health care coverage, according to the n…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Fight Back: The right-wing seeks to shift health and food costs to people struggling to make ends meet

We need to keep the pressure on Congress to reject this Billionaire Budget. John, This week, three critical House Committees passed their budget bills as part of congressional Republicans’ huge budget package that’s expected to get a vote next week. But some of…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM

The House GOP bill will be catastrophic to tens of millions of people

The House reconciliation package will make catastrophic cuts to human needs programs to fund tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. John, House Republicans are ready to pass a bill that will entrench the Trump Tax Scam at the expense of the rest of us. This …

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM

4.5 million children will be denied the Child Tax Credit

A proposal in Congress would seek to change the eligibility criteria for the Child Tax Credit, removing 4.5 million children from eligibility instead of expanding access to the CTC for millions left out now. John, The House Ways and Means Committee is meeting …

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Tell Congress to Protect Medicaid

House unveils bill to make the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. John, Late last night, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released their bill to make $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid―the largest cut in the history of the program.1 Nearly 14 million Amer…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Re: The House is just days away from critical committee votes on Medicaid and SNAP

If these three budget bills pass out of Committee next week, the House could be poised to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by Memorial Day. John, The House is just two days away from critical committee consideration that could slash Medicaid and SNAP by more t…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM

The House is just days away from critical committee votes on Medicaid and SNAP

If these three budget bills pass out of Committee next week, the House could be poised to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by Memorial Day. John, Congressional Republicans are trying to fast-track their bills to devastate basic needs in order to fund even more…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM

[TAKE ACTION] Demand Congress stop funding Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine

Republicans in Congress are set to fund ICE with tens of billions of dollars over the next two years. John, While Republicans in Congress are getting ready to cut more than $1 trillion in funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical human needs programs, ther…

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Re: Tell Congress to Protect Medicaid

Republicans in Congress want to make drastic cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. John, CHN Action and our coalition partners just wrapped up a 24 hour vigil where we were joined by advocates, impacted community members, and members of Con…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Tell Congress to Protect Medicaid

Republicans in Congress want to make drastic cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. John, As of December 2024, there are 78.5 million people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)[1], and millions are at risk…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM

[TAKE ACTION]: Urge Congress to reject cuts to SNAP

House Republicans have told the Agriculture Committee to make $230 billion in cuts to SNAP. John, The House Agriculture Committee was supposed to meet this week to vote on cuts to the SNAP nutrition program, but it’s been pushed to next week, which gives us mor…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Re: House Committees are finalizing bills to cut Medicaid and SNAP

Make no mistake: The cuts to critical human needs are not meant to balance the budget or rein in federal spending. John, After passing budget bills out of committee last week that would cut funding for access to higher education and gut the Consumer Financial Pr…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

May 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM

House Committees are finalizing bills to cut Medicaid and SNAP

Make no mistake: The cuts to critical human needs are not meant to balance the budget or rein in federal spending. John, Congressional Republicans are working hard to pass their budget that attacks critical human needs in order to pay for a renewal of Trump’s ta…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

May 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM

The Senate could disenfranchise 21 million voters

The Senate is preparing to vote on the anti-democratic SAVE Act. John, In the midst of attacks on basic needs, the Save American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) passed the House by a narrow margin and is now headed to the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to pass…

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