John,

Congress is about to inflict the largest Medicaid cut in history to give trillions of dollars in tax handouts to the wealthiest 1% of American households.

According to the Budget Lab at Yale University, the proposed House budget would cut 30% from SNAP and 15% of federal funds to Medicaid for 2025-2034.¹ Politicians are trying to hide the dangerous impact of their proposals by pretending people won’t lose access to basic needs and shift more costs onto states, which would be forced to restrict benefits or remove people from Medicaid and SNAP altogether.

All of this is in service of doubling down on the 2017 tax scam that disproportionately benefits the wealthy and corporations. After the law passed, corporations saw their effective tax rate plummet from 22% to 12.8%, and the richest 1% saw a tax cut of $45,790, which is more than most people earn in one year.²

These cuts are coming at a time filled with economic uncertainty and chaos. The new tariffs put forth by Donald Trump will hit low-income households hard³ because they spend more of their money on necessities like food and clothing, a lot of which comes from overseas.

Make no mistake: what we are seeing are enormous tax increases inflicted on working people and families in the form of tariffs, which some in Congress want to combine with enormous cuts in basic needs programs. Many of us are feeling the impact of the high cost of living now, and could be just one paycheck away from a crisis. Basic needs programs provide economic assistance when Americans fall on hard times. We don't need to cut services--we need to make them work better, and improve them by making the wealthy pay what they owe in taxes. That would help everyone afford the basics like health care, groceries, and housing.

We must support everyday people and stand against these policies that force them to economically suffer so the rich can get richer. Donate $5 today to fight back against these regressive policies.

Thank you for all you do,

Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Illustrative Distributional Effects of Policies Consistent with the House Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2025
² Trump’s Address to Congress Obscures His Actual Tax Agenda
³ State of U.S. Tariffs: April 15, 2025

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John,

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to pass his budget package by Memorial Day, May 26th, exactly one month from today.

The budget is nothing but a tax giveaway to the rich, paid for by making the largest cuts to Medicaid in the history of the program. House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA) notes:¹

“Republicans once again made their priorities painfully clear: a $7 trillion tax giveaway to their billionaire donors, paid for in part by the largest Medicaid and food assistance cuts in American history. With Senator Thune's guarantee, Senate Republicans are now also fully agreeing on this draconian economic plan.”

Speaker Johnson overcame immense opposition within his party because House Republicans felt that the Senate version of the budget didn’t go far enough. But he was able to wrangle enough votes to pass this “big, beautiful bill” that includes $1.5 trillion in cuts to human needs programs while increasing funding for Trump’s mass deportation machine.²

There’s still time to fight back against this horrid budget, defend human needs programs, and rally our supporters in Congress, but we need your help to do it. Donate $5 today to help us defeat this monstrosity of a budget bill.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Medicare and Medicaid make up 97% of the funding the committee oversees, so the House’s instructions to this committee to cut $880 billion necessitate draconian cuts to Medicaid.³

Severe cuts to Medicaid would have catastrophic effects on our nation’s healthcare systems, with 1 in 5 people in the United States relying on Medicaid to pay for healthcare, including kids, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income workers.⁵ Extremists are using the budget process to gut the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, and 20 million adults with low incomes could risk having their coverage taken away.⁶ Politicians want to penalize people for losing their jobs by taking away Medicaid – even though taking away Medicaid’s health services doesn't help people find jobs and instead makes it more difficult for people to find work, especially in this tough economy. And, people with conditions like severe pain, fatigue, or mental illness may not qualify as 'disabled enough' to be exempted from these new work requirements. In addition, services that allow seniors and people with disabilities to live with dignity and independence in their own homes are at risk.

Drastically cutting Medicaid impacts all of us and will gut our health care infrastructure. The majority of Americans across the political spectrum want Medicaid funding to either increase or stay the same.⁷ In other words, cutting Medicaid by $880 billion is not only immoral, but it’s politically unpopular.

Millions of people rely on Medicaid, and we need to make sure their voices are heard in Washington, D.C. Chip in $5 so we can demand that Congress reject Medicaid cuts.

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Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Boyle Statement on House Passage of Senate Budget Resolution
² House approves budget framework for Trump’s ‘big’ bill after intense wrangling sways GOP holdouts
³ GOP Budget Would Force the Largest Medicaid Cuts in American History
⁴ November 2024 Medicaid & CHIP Enrollment Data Highlights
⁵ Medicaid Expansion Enrollment
⁶ KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2025: The Public’s Views on Potential Changes to Medicaid