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What New Federal Notices Mean for Immigrants’ Program Eligibility

Five federal agencies have issued notices reinterpreting which federal programs may be restricted to certain categories of immigrants. These notices illustrate the administration’s harmful willingness to undermine the well-being of families and communities to pursue its anti-immigrant agenda. 

Celebrating Legal Justice Champions at CHN’s Human Needs Hero 2025

At a time when the executive branch has seized power to deny millions of our people health care, food, jobs with labor protections, affordable housing, education, contrary to our nation’s values and shockingly often contrary to law, we must all work together

The 60-Hour Vigil to Protect Medicaid 

Medicaid saves lives. It provides the care that allows children with serious medical conditions to go to school and allows their parents to go to work. Requiring repeated reporting of work hours or exempt status will hurt people.

Coalition on Human Needs to Congress: Oppose the Rescissions Package

CHN urges the House and Senate to stand firm and not allow efforts to radically undermine Congress’ role in appropriating funds to support approved federal programs in ways that hurt people and communities across the country. We call on Congress to reject this rescissions package that enables the Administration’s attacks on important funding for communities, undermines the bipartisan appropriations process, and paves the way for further cuts to important programs at a time of our people’s increasing needs.

America First? No, Corporations First.

Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.

The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the House Budget Package

CHN strongly opposes the Congressional budget package’s deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in addition to other basic needs programs coupled with tax breaks that drain resources from lower-income families to give tax breaks to the wealthy plus fund family separation, border enforcement, detention, and deportation of immigrants — policies are wasteful, inhumane, and destructive to our communities and economy. We urge Congress to instead pause this process, defeat the bill, and instead look to protect and strengthen basic needs programs.