Action is needed now to ensure that Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are protected as Congress works on the federal budget reconciliation effort that will require deep cuts in food assistance (SNAP) and healthcare (Medicaid) programs for low-income individuals. These cuts could mean millions of people will lose critical healthcare and nutrition assistance. Others would see their costs go up for these essential services.

SNAP is our nation’s most significant anti-hunger program, boosting the economy and improving the long-term prospects of households with low incomes. It provides for a level of need that the charitable sector and emergency food programs simply cannot meet. 

Medicaid provides quality, affordable healthcare coverage for about 80 million people across the country, including low-income children and adults, pregnant individuals, people with disabilities, and seniors. In addition to taking food assistance and health coverage away from people who need it, the current effort would likely shift massive costs to our state and to local communities, which are already stretched. And when state and local governments can’t meet those higher costs, the harmful impacts on our people and families will be even more severe.

Ask your Member of Congress to preserve and protect the affordability of healthcare coverage (Medicaid) and to preserve and strengthen food assistance (SNAP), helping people afford the basics, so they can build the lives they want for themselves and their families.