John,

House Republicans have introduced their budget, which is a direct attack on vulnerable communities―laying out clearly their plan to take food assistance and health care away from millions in order to fund more tax cuts for the rich and power Trump’s anti-immigrant mass deportation agenda.

Not only does the budget proposal include over $1.5 trillion in cuts to human needs programs―it also lays out how those cuts will be used for a $90 billion increase to the Department of Homeland Security and $110 billion to the Judiciary Committee to fund Trump’s mass deportation machine that rips families and communities apart and subjects detainees to unsanitary, horrid conditions that put their health and safety at risk.¹ Trump and congressional Republicans are asking communities to accept a devastating trade-off: families lose food and health care in exchange for immigration raids in schools, churches, and hospitals and having the military in their neighborhoods.

Many people continue to struggle with high costs, from food to housing to child care to health care. As of 2023 (the most recent Census Bureau data) 16%—or 11.4 million of all children in the United States—lived in poverty.² In 2023, the poverty rate for all ages was 12.5%.³

House Republicans have laid out a plan to increase poverty and hardship further in order to turbocharge mass deportations and tax cuts for the rich. It’s absolutely unconscionable and they need to be held to account.

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¹ House Republicans Aim to Gut Spending and Cut Taxes (Mainly for the Rich) by $4.5 Trillion
² Children in poverty in United States
³ Child Poverty Rates Dropped in 8 States While Poverty Rates for Older Population Rose in 10 States
⁴Child Poverty Rates Remained High in 2023: At Least 10 Million Kids in Poverty

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John,

Republicans have introduced their budget legislation and it’s nothing more than an attack on seniors, people with disabilities, low-income people, and children.

They want to cut $230 billion from SNAP and other nutrition programs―putting 40 million people at risk of losing their access to healthy nutrition and raising out-of-pocket food expenses for tens of millions of households at a time when many of us feel the impact of higher food costs.^1,2

They are demanding $2 trillion in cuts to mandatory programs including Medicaid and Medicare―meaning 36 million people (or more!) would be at risk of losing their access to health care via Medicaid.³

This is an outright assault on the most vulnerable populations and it’s all happening in order to fund tax breaks for the rich and corporations, and to fund Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, which is detaining and deporting thousands of people a day who are part of our communities, many for years or decades.

If passed by Congress, these cuts coupled with more tax handouts to the ultra-wealthy would represent one of the biggest upward transfers of wealth in over a century―stealing money from programs that support low-income households to further enrich the wealthy.

We’re rallying our allies across the country to fight back against these extreme cuts and we need your support.

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If all of that wasn’t bad enough, there are Republicans calling for even more cuts―to the tune of an extra $500 billion that would deepen cuts to Medicaid. They want to increase paperwork burdens for Medicaid participants via work reporting requirements and expand the reporting requirements for SNAP and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).⁴ Introducing work reporting requirements for Medicaid is completely unnecessary since six in ten nonelderly, nondisabled adults who receive health care via Medicaid are already working full or part-time. The rest would be exempt from work for reasons such as being a caregiver, attending school, or health problems.⁵

Congress has more work to do to address higher costs and health, employment, child care, and home and community-based care for the aging and people with disabilities, all levels of education, energy assistance, affordable broadband, and many other unmet needs in the months ahead. Decisions made to reject these investments and make very deep cuts to critical programs will have consequences for every American for generations to come.

We have a chance to stop this dangerous budget if Democrats vote in united opposition and we peel off a few swing-district Republicans.

Donate $5 today to power our grassroots advocacy with community organizations and in-person lobbying on Capitol Hill demanding Congress reject these draconian budget cuts to fund more tax cuts for the rich and Trump’s mass deportation agenda.