May 13, 2025 - “The Largest SNAP Cuts in History"
Plus organizing for the immigrant community, return of the nonprofit killer bill, boycotting corporate cowards and more!
🚨 Multiple phonebanks into key districts to rally support against the GOP budget today - join in at 10AM and 2PM and find more ways to help here 🚨
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By phone: (202) 224-3121
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☎️ MILLIONS AT RISK OF LOSING FOOD ASSISTANCE IF GOP GETS ITS SNAP CUTS ☎️
Last night we finally got details on how exactly Republicans plan to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the reconciliation bill. They’ve found $290 billion in “savings” for tax cuts for billionaires through what the Center for American Progress’ Bobby Kogan flatly described as “the largest SNAP cuts in history. It would severely worsen food insecurity in America.” (See his analysis here and more from CAP here.) While the policy experts are still going through it, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities determined a similar proposal would put six million people at risk of losing SNAP, and people in 11 million households would be at risk of losing at least some food assistance. That's 1 in 4 people on SNAP. The committee markup is scheduled to begin this evening.
Let’s let our members of Congress know they must reject cutting SNAP to pay for more giveaways to the wealthy. We can use this email tool from the Food Research & Action Center or use it as base language for our calls, and personalize it with stats from our district on how many people benefit from food assistance. FRAC also has a digital toolkit and quotes from SNAP recipients on why it matters we can put to use (h/t ). And we can find more ways to help fight this budget here.
CONGRESS CONSIDERS NEW WEAPON FOR TRUMP TO CRUSH DISSENT
During the lame duck, we successfully stalled a dangerous bill that would grant the Secretary of the Treasury unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.” Now, H.R. 9495 is back, labeled Section 112209 of the tax section of the reconciliation bill, and it will be part of the package considered TODAY by the House Ways and Means Committee. This measure is ripe for abuse by Trump, requiring no explanation and no evidence for how Treasury officials concluded a nonprofit was “terror supporting.” It can be used without any process to kneecap 501(c)(3) groups, the heart of our civil society, something that Trump has made clear is on his authoritarian agenda. Members of the committee should have a chance during the markup to back an amendment to strike it. Let’s reach out to them our reps, especially those on Ways and Means, and tell them we want them to block the nonprofit killer bill. We can use language from this ACLU letter and this Resistbot.
🫱🏻🫲🏿 COMMUNITY DEFENSE IN THE FACE OF ICE 🫱🏾🫲🏼
Law enforcement pinned a 16-year-old girl’s face to the ground as ICE agents seized her mother off the streets in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week. It could have been just another increasingly commonplace horror, but their neighbors refused to let it be normalized. Dozens came out on the streets to confront immigration enforcement and get the arrests on video, and it became a national story. This sort of solidarity has made a difference time and again, forcing America to not look away and helping some of those caught in the teeth of the deportation machine get a needed spotlight on their cases.
Some of this is spontaneous, but there’s also plenty of organized community defense groups building up to be ready for these moments – running emergency hotlines, leading rapid response, holding know-your-rights trainings, teaching employers how they can create a Fourth Amendment workplace, and verifying ICE sightings. And the Defend & Recruit Network, which works off the model of Siembra NC’s work to defend immigrant communities, is looking to grow even more. We can check out this playbook and get training on how to do ICE Watch and community defense from Siembra. They also have a campus-specific toolkit we can put to use here. And they can connect us to local groups already doing the work near us.
We can also:
Document immigration enforcement activity we witness it, using these tips on how to verify and what information to record from WITNESS and Never Again Action.
Use these tips from United We Dream on how citizens can support the immigrant community while enforcement activity is in progress.
Make sure we have United We Dream’s MigraWatch hotline at 1-844-363-1423 and/or our best organized local rapid response hotline saved in our phones.
🗳️ MULTI-FRONT DEFENSE OF VOTING RIGHTS 🗳️
Under the Trump Administration, voting rights are under a multi-pronged attack, and we need to mount a multi-front defense.
The SAVE Act (H.R. 22/S.128) – nicknamed the Silencing Americans Act by Indivisible – will require voters registering or changing their registration information to provide ID that many of us do not have, and forces them to present that ID in person. The far-reaching consequences of this include disenfranchising trans people, making it harder for women who changed their name at marriage to vote, making it harder for people without a passport to vote and making voting by mail more difficult which will disenfranchise elderly and differently abled people. This measure has passed the House and is headed to the Senate. We need to contact our senators and ask them to oppose this measure. We can use this tool to do so.
We should be able to block the SAVE Act, but lawmakers in 24 states have introduced similar measures, and Louisiana, New Hampshire and Wyoming have already passed them into law. Common Cause is scheduling weekly phonebanks on Tuesdays and Thursdays running from 5:30PM-7:30PM to mobilize folks for action against the federal and state-level SAVE Acts. We can sign up to join them in stopping voter suppression here.
On March 25th, Trump signed an executive order also designed to disenfranchise votes and put obstacles in the way of voting rights. As the ACLU describes, the order “directs the Election Assistance Commission to change the national mail voter registration form to require documentary proof of citizenship, such as a passport, to register to vote. The order also attempts to force states to enact documentary proof of citizenship requirements and to stop counting absentee and mail-in ballots received after Election Day in accordance with state law by threatening to withhold federal funding.” A coalition of voting rights groups has filed suit against this executive order, and gotten a judge to temporarily blocking the Election Assistance Commission from carrying it out. This case is continuing. We can read more here and consider a donation to the ACLU to support their efforts in defense of voting rights at the bottom of this page.
Voting rights are also being attacked via the dismantling of infrastructure put in place to protect them. As Common Cause wrote: “Attorney General Pam Bondi removed the leadership team of the Voting Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and ordered the dismissal of all the section’s active cases. The Voting Section enforces the federal laws protecting the right to vote, including the Voting Rights Act, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Civil Rights Acts.” We need to ask our reps to speak out against this obvious sabotage of voting rights infrastructure. We can use language from this Resistbot petition or send it directly by texting SIGN PWVRWR to 50409.
💲 SUPPORT PRIDE SPONSORS, BOYCOTT CORPORATE COWARDS 💲
June is LGBTQ Pride Month in the U.S., honoring the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising for freedom to express our gender and sexual orientation. This year, as Trump takes away those freedoms, corporations that previously supported Pride parades, festivals, and other celebrations are withdrawing their funding. Let's use our purchasing power to support Pride sponsors and boycott cowardly companies that dropped their sponsorship. We can find sponsor information at our local pride event pages. Local news stories might identify previous sponsors who are backing down. Let's contact the customer relations departments of these corporations to tell them where we're shopping and why!
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
Called on SNAP!