John,

Yesterday was the largest nationwide protest yet of this authoritarian administration and its brutal policies that are seeking to punish opponents, silence dissent, and harm vulnerable communities.

This national uprising shows that, even as Trump and his minions control the levers of government, everyday people are not staying silent. We’re speaking up and demanding a government that is of, by, and for the people, not the billionaires.

Right now, the U.S. Senate is hoping to vote on their budget package that attacks basic needs programs and fuels attacks on immigrant communities and family separation in less than two weeks. Last Wednesday, the Senate Agriculture Committee introduced portions of their bill that would make drastic cuts to SNAP nutrition programs¹, shifting billions of dollars in costs to states and forcing most states either to cut SNAP or cut other programs. By forcing most states to pay 5-15 percent of the federal funding for SNAP benefits going to families in the state, many states will be forced to gut spending for education, public safety, and other investments or perhaps opt out of participating in SNAP completely (an even bigger risk during economic downturns, just when more families are at risk of hunger), undermining the longstanding bipartisan commitment to address hunger no matter what state hungry people call home. Deep cuts will have a ripple effect across services and would also harm workers and local grocery stores in communities across the country.

New work reporting requirements - really just red tape roadblocks - will mean people who are eligible for benefits will lose them. Families with children as young as 10 will see reductions in SNAP benefits because of new “job loss penalties” that will apply to parents for the first time, leaving less food on the table for families at a time many are struggling with higher grocery costs. One in 5 SNAP recipients, including 2.5 million children and 8 million people total, are at risk of losing food assistance.² The Senate proposal even removes exemptions for veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth put in place in the 2023 debt ceiling deal! And for those lucky enough to keep their SNAP benefits, today’s meager $6 per person per day SNAP benefit will drop to $5 over time.

The Senate is finalizing their overall budget package, combining this proposal that is the largest cut to SNAP in history³ with cuts to basic health programs that will leave 16 million without health coverage⁴ and billions to be spent to round up immigrants, here legally or not.

Rush a donation today to power our campaign that is fighting back against outrageous cuts to SNAP, health care, and more to pay for more tax cuts for billionaires and to power Trump’s kidnappings and family separation.

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Together, we’re demanding justice and accountability of an administration that is illegally freezing congressionally appropriated funds, disappearing people off the streets, and unleashing the military on U.S. citizens.

Thank you for demanding a future for all of us, not just the wealthy few.

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

¹ Tracking Senate Action on Tax and Budget Reconciliation Plan
² Millions Would Lose Food Assistance Under Expanded Work Requirement, Including Households With Children
³ MAZON Slams Senate Reconciliation Text as Dangerous Assault on Food Assistance Programs
⁴ Estimated Effects on the Number of Uninsured People in 2034 Resulting From Policies Incorporated Within CBO’s Baseline Projections and H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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John,

Injustice is in front of our eyes. Immigrants are seized after arriving at appointments to comply with immigration rules. They are kidnapped at workplaces and schools, without warrants. Some are children. As protests have swelled, the Trump administration has inflamed confrontations by ordering thousands of National Guard and hundreds of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles. Despite overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations, every burned car provides the visuals the autocrats want.

And then yesterday, many of us watched in horror as we saw videos of a United States Senator manhandled by security staff while seeking to ask questions about the administration’s deployment of military forces in California.¹

The autocrats have been working overtime to purge staff and freeze funding, to add hundreds of billions to fund more ICE kidnappings, to slash Medicaid, SNAP food assistance, education, and green energy and jobs, and to further enrich the wealthy with trillions in tax breaks. This is not popular. Repeated polls show substantial majorities of Americans support Medicaid and SNAP.^2,3 The public does not want basic needs programs to be cut in order to shovel more tax breaks to rich people.

To distract from their universally unpopular budget, Trump is ratcheting up militaristic confrontations until you get those cars in flames on television. Not enough real flames? Extremist allies can always post false images. While that’s on our screens, Congress will try to hammer out the deal to hand those giant tax breaks to the wealthy and add billions to the anti-immigrant enforcement machine, while slashing basic needs programs.

It's up to us to make sure people across the country know the truth about this plot to fuel a government that harms vulnerable communities, silences dissent, and rewards the billionaires and corporations who bankroll right-wing political campaigns.

With the Senate hoping to vote on their budget package within the next two weeks, we're applying massive grassroots pressure, making sure Congress knows how toxic this bill is. Rush a donation today to power our campaign.

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Together, we have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families and communities apart and subverting our democracy. And we must also continue to tell Congress that a big brutal budget bill that denies health coverage and food assistance to millions of people, that threatens public education, and funds military force to threaten our own communities is a bill that must be rejected.

Even as CHN Action and our allies prepare for No Kings Day―this Saturday, June 14, in about 2,000 locations around the country―defense of our democracy and protecting basic needs programs is not a one day thing.

Donate today to power our campaign to stop the Republican big brutal bill and to stand up to authoritarianism.