Tell Your Congress Member to Vote NO to SNAP Cuts

Congress is moving fast to approve the biggest SNAP cut in history - and NOW is the time to urge our Congress members to fight back and vote NO on the budget. The House Agriculture Committee voted to cut SNAP by as much as $300 billion by making radical changes to eligibility and its funding structure. 

These SNAP cuts would affect parents, veterans, homeless people, legally residing immigrants, and any adult up to age 65 who couldn’t document employment of at least 20 hours/week every month — even in communities with high unemployment or where there are more workers than jobs. In addition, these cuts would also hit state budgets hard: Congress is proposing a fundamental change in SNAP by offloading more costs and responsibilities to states. In Washington, this shift would have cost our state budget more than $430 million last year alone (nationwide, it would have cost states $4.7 billion) — all while requiring our state to deny food benefits to hundreds of thousands of low-income Washingtonians. 

This vote happened after other House committees had just voted to cut Medicaid by $700 billion, taking health care from 13.7 million people, and slashing the Child Tax Credit to cut off 17 million children and their families. These and all the other cuts to basic needs programs are not a desperate response to a budget crisis: it is solely to offset the cost of continuing tax breaks for millionaires and wealthy corporations.  

Taking food from people with food insecurity and making our state pay more to do that is just wrong. So, we need your voices NOW as the bill heads to the Senate for consideration. 

Send a message to your Congress member — and PLEASE personalize it with a short message about why SNAP is important to you, to your community, or to your organization. 

Because our champions need stories of why SNAP matters. And for our Congress members who might think about voting yes on these massive cuts — we REALLY need them to hear how harmful and damaging SNAP cuts are to their constituents, to their communities, and to Washington. Urge your Congress members to vote NO to SNAP cuts and NO to this budget!