Hello, my name is ________, and I am a constituent from [City/State]. I’m calling today to urge my representative to turn their attention towards investing in communities like mine instead of cutting vital safety-net programs. We need investments in care not cuts to programs that keep families alive.

Key Points:
- There is a singular throughline in both chambers right now: Congress is failing to focus on what we really need, a functional government, with care policies that allow our families to thrive.

- The current budget package will decimate communities that rely on our barely there social safety net. Gutting Medicaid, TANF, and SNAP is the opposite of what we need. Families need deeper investments in our well-being like paid family and medical leave, paid sick and safe days, and affordable child care.

No Cuts to Medicaid
- Medicaid is the single largest source of health care coverage in the United States.
- It is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents.
- It pays for 42% of births in the United States each year and provides health care for nearly half of all children in our country.
- Medicaid funding cuts would cause hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home health agencies to close or downsize, especially in rural and lower-income communities. One analysis shows that cuts could cause 477,000 health care jobs to be lost in 2026 alone.
- Medicaid cuts would cause millions of people to lose their health care, including kids and our most vulnerable Americans, and cuts would raise health care and insurance costs for everyone else.

No Cuts to Food Assistance
- 42 million people use SNAP food assistance per month, or almost 13% total of U.S. residents. Working families depend on SNAP to get by and to provide nutritious, healthy food for their children to grow and thrive.
- Cuts to food assistance jeopardize thousands of jobs in food processing, school cafeterias, retail and agriculture.
- Pushing the costs of food assistance to states with already strained budgets threatens many other services and jobs that our families and communities rely on.

No Cuts to Child Care
- The proposed cuts to SSBG and TANF would eliminate child care for 40,000 children and disrupt care for millions more.
- TANF has become a major source of child care funding, with states spending $1.3 billion directly on child care services in fiscal year 2023, and over a billion dollars were transferred at the state level to CCDBG to supplement that funding.
- Therefore, proposed cuts to TANF would have significant negative consequences for the number of families who receive child care assistance.

I urge [Senator/Representative Name] to speak up and oppose this proposal. As a constituent, I expect [Senator/Representative Name] to get back to the business of prioritizing a functional and funded government to support workers and families like mine.

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Thank you for your time and consideration.