Congress has enacted the Big Brutal Bill and Donald Trump has signed it into law.
This bill is deadly.
According to researchers from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts plus other health care cuts—the largest in history—will result in the deaths of 51,000 people per year. Those deaths include 18,200 people who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, 20,000 people who will lose health care coverage due to the elimination of the premium tax credit for the Affordable Care Act, and 13,000 deaths due to staffing cuts at nursing homes.
At a time when so many are struggling to afford the basic costs of living including groceries, new data from the Urban Institute shows that 5.3 million families will lose $25 or more per month in SNAP benefits, with the average such family losing $146 a month in help paying for food. Sixty-two percent of the families experiencing these very large SNAP losses include children.
All of this is being done in order to pay for extending the Trump tax scam—making tax breaks for the rich permanent—and funding Trump’s mass immigration detention and removal machine.
Congress needs to hear from you. Send a message thanking those who stood up and voted against this monstrosity of a bill, or send a message to your members of Congress who voted for it, admonishing them for their vote.
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The termination of Census Bureau advisory committees risks losing valuable expert and public input, which has historically improved data accuracy and informed critical decisions like redistricting and funding allocation. CHN is deeply troubled by the termination of these committees.
House Speaker Johnson released on March 7 a long-term continuing resolution (CR) that would would cut $13 billion in domestic spending from the previous fiscal year, while also proposing funding adjustments for some federal programs.
CHN strongly urge members of Congress to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution that flat-funds and cuts important programs at a time of our people’s increasing needs.
Recently, we have seen a strategic effort by the Trump administration to remove datasets and resources that document economic, social, and health disparities faced by millions of people.
In addition to the numerous anti-immigrant actions the Trump Administration has already taken, congressional Republicans are considering legislative anti-immigrant proposals. The House and Senate have passed budget plans that call for supercharging funding to deport people throughout our communities.
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