CHN Urges the Senate to Separate DHS Appropriations Bill from Larger Package, Reject DHS Funding
January 26, 2026
The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes Partisan House Continuing Resolution
CHN Staff,
September 18, 2025
Letter to Congress
CHN urges Congress to vote no on any appropriations legislation, including a short-term CR, that does not include enforceable instructions on how congressionally approved funding must be spent in any spending package, along with extending expiring funding to stop efforts to “run out the clock", and address health costs including extending the enhanced ACA Premium Tax Credit before families get notices about skyrocketing health increases before November 1.
We Must Stand Together
Deborah Weinstein,
September 17, 2025
Remarks to the CHN community
The Coalition on Human Needs is small, but the human needs community is large. We are facing unprecedented attacks on our democratic rights to advocate to meet the needs of all of our people.
The Hidden Costs of Cutting WIC: Risks to Health and Families
Sierra Wilson,
September 15, 2025
WIC funding cuts are likely to drive up the cost of health care and ultimately increase federal government spending. A robust WIC program can help keep more than 200,000 people out of poverty in a single year.
Q&A: Understanding SNAP Time Limits and the Burden of Expanded Work-for-Food Requirements
Gina Plata-Nino, JD,
September 12, 2025
Blog post by FRAC, a member of CHN
Time limits are a cut to SNAP and ignore the structural and personal barriers that many SNAP recipients face — including unstable job markets, part-time work with insufficient hours, unpaid caregiving, and jobs that do not provide documentation needed to prove work activity
Tying Medicaid to Work Further Limits Who Policymakers Deem Worthy of Health Insurance and Undermines the Affordable Care Act
Suzanne Wikle,
September 11, 2025
Blog post by CLASP, a member of CHN
Access to health insurance and health care has never been a right in this country. There has always been a division between those that are considered “worthy” and those that are not, mostly along wealth and racial line.
