They are watching our families fight for survival—and choosing to cut us down with no remorse. Medicaid, SNAP, and public education are under siege, and the communities most affected—Black, brown, disabled, and low-income families—are already carrying the heaviest burdens.These aren’t policy shifts. They are aggressive violent acts against the people lawmakers claim to represent and serve.
We need to name this clearly and call it what it is. These aren’t policy shifts. They are deliberate attacks designed to destabilize the most vulnerable. A budget cut isn’t just a line item—it’s a direct target on survival. This isn’t fiscal responsibility—it’s premeditated harm, a calculated erosion of basic human rights.
And now, lawmakers have tuned school meals into their latest weapon. Hunger itself is being legislated.
SNAP Cuts Aren’t Just Policy—They Will Starve Schools
A new Urban Institute analysis finds that SNAP reductions will strip 832,000 students of automatic access to free school meals.
This isn’t just about paperwork—it’s about stigma. Universal free meal programs like the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) were designed to ensure that low-income children don’t have to prove their poverty to eat. But if these SNAP changes go through, at least 18 million students in CEP schools will face increased costs, jeopardizing their access to food security altogether.
Who suffers most? Black, brown, disabled, low-income families—the very communities that lawmakers have long abandoned and erased. Food is a human right, not a bargaining chip.
Medicaid Cuts Are a Direct Attack on Black and Brown Communities
House Speaker Mike Johnson, backed by Senate conservatives, wants to slash $723 billion from Medicaid, stripping healthcare from 8 million people, disproportionately impacting Black, disabled, and low-income families.
For nearly 40% of Black children, Medicaid is their lifeline. It’s the difference between routine checkups and preventable illness, between vaccination and vulnerability, between survival and suffering.
When Arkansas imposed restrictive Medicaid work requirements, nearly 20,000 people lost coverage in a single year—most of whom were already working or facing structural barriers to employment. This is how systemic violence operates—not with guns, but with policies designed to suffocate access to care.
The Battle Over the House’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is a “standardized” Test of Power and Humanity
On Capitol Hill, budget reconciliation has exposed deep fractures. Fiscal conservatives like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson argue that the bill doesn’t cut enough, calling reductions “wimpy and anemic.” Meanwhile, moderates like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Josh Hawley have voiced concerns about Medicaid provisions, fearing the collapse of rural hospitals under the proposed cuts.
SNAP reductions have also drawn scrutiny from Republican senators representing rural states, but many have stopped short of opposing the bill outright—suggesting that when the moment comes, their principles will cave under party pressure.
This is the same dynamic we saw in the House, where after all the posturing, only two Republicans voted against the bill. The question now: which faction will Senate leadership choose to appease?
We Will Not Stand By In Silence—We Will Make Them Hear Us
Education civil rights organizations—including National Parents Union, EdTrust, UnidosUS, and Advancement Project—have issued a formal rejection of the bill, warning that it will devastate state budgets, gut education funding, and leave millions of students and families without health insurance or food assistance.
Here’s what you can do now:
-
Flood the legislators with calls and emails demanding an outright rejection of this bill and make it clear–you will not forget who stood against us.
-
Mobilize your community–spread the word, amplify voices, and show lawmakers we refuse to back down or be ignored.
-
Support advocacy groups on the frontlines fighting against these attacks on healthcare, education, and food security.
As James Baldwin warned:
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction..”
They want us silenced. We refuse to be unheard. Congress believes these cuts will go unnoticed. They are wrong. We see you. We clocked it. We will dismantle it.