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Urging Mercy for Low-income Americans

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If one or more of your Members of Congress are Republicans, urge them not to cut funding or make damaging changes to Medicaid, SNAP, and other low-income programs.


Republicans now control the White House and both houses of Congress. But they have yet to agree among themselves on their legislative goals. They are likely to push for deep cuts and damaging changes in Medicaid, SNAP, and other low-income programs.


The chair of the House Budget Committee has suggested a possible $5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years, mainly $3.5 billion from Medicaid (health care for poor and low-income people) and another $300 billion from SNAP (nutrition assistance for people in poverty). Millions more Americans would be unable to afford the health care they need. Hunger among America’s children would become more severe and widespread. 


President Trump’s priorities are a big tax cut, mainly for high-income people, and funding for his merciless program of deportation and border control. The proposed cuts to programs that help people in need would help to pay for these priorities.


Catholics and a wide array of Protestants of many varieties, working with other groups, pushed back against a massive political attack on poverty-focused programs between 2011 and 2017.  Republicans have even more power now, and their attack of poor and vulnerable people is more radical.  Yet there are only three more Republicans than Democrats in the House of Representatives, and Republicans hold only 53 or the 100 seats in the Senate. 


If concerned citizens convince just a few Republicans to take exception to making struggling Americans poorer, we might be able to block or moderate this planned attack on hungry and poor people. 


Explain how your faith shapes your views on this issue. According to the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of the voting members of our new Congress are Christian. Speak from the Bible about God’s love for all people, especially for people who are hungry or need healing.

Photo: Bread for the World
Photo: Bread for the World

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