Right now, Congressional committees are drafting federal budget proposals that would make deep cuts to affordable health care through Medicaid, food assistance through SNAP, and block our refugee and immigrant neighbors from accessing basic needs services.
While many nonprofits partner with government to provide critical services, nonprofits cannot make up the difference if Congress makes massive cuts to federal public services.
MCN and the Minnesota Budget Project are asking you to add your organization’s name to a letter urging Minnesota’s members of Congress to reject the extremely harmful proposed budget cuts.
In particular, we are deeply concerned about the following threats to Minnesotan’s ability to meet their basic needs:
- Cuts to Medicaid would put the health and financial well-being of more than one million Minnesotans, as well as our health care system, at risk.
- Cuts to SNAP and other nutrition services would mean more Minnesotans would go hungry and pay more when buying their groceries.
- Proposals that block our refugee and immigrant neighbors from accessing basic needs services would create hardship and weaken our communities.
- These and other harmful budget cuts would be used to pay for tax cuts that give the biggest benefits to the most fortunate.
We need to remind our Congressional representatives that Minnesotans value the public services that ensure all of us can afford food, health care, and other basics we need to build the lives we want for ourselves and our families.
Join us: Sign onto this letter to our Minnesota delegation today.