But both the U.S. House and multiple U.S. Senate committees recently advanced budget legislation to do exactly that. This cruel legislation would make massive cuts in federal funding for health care and food assistance – all to offset deep tax cuts for the country’s wealthiest households and businesses.

There’s still time to stop this bad budget plan. Take a minute to tell your senators today to vote NO on harmful cuts to food assistance, Medicaid and other vital human services.

Congress is considering whether to continue tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit billionaires and highly profitable corporations. But under its rules, lawmakers would have to offset at least some of the cost of these tax breaks for the wealthy. The bill being considered in the Senate proposes to do that by slashing funding for services that make life better for families who are struggling to make ends meet.

The results could be devastating for Alabama. As many as 750,000 Alabamians could see food benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reduced or even eliminated. Tens of thousands of Alabamians could be priced out of marketplace health coverage due to cuts to affordability subsidies.

The Senate is considering a plan to cut taxes by more than $1 trillion for the richest 2% of U.S. households while cutting the same amount from health coverage and food assistance for the rest of us. The results would be increased poverty and hardship for ordinary Alabamians and increased wealth for the already ultra-rich. Additional proposals include shifting SNAP costs from the federal government to our already struggling state budgets, imposing stringent time limits on SNAP for veterans and people facing homelessness, and imposing additional red-tape eligibility barriers to SNAP and Medicaid.

The U.S. Senate should reject harmful proposals of service cuts for working people and tax giveaways for wealthy households. Our senators should focus instead on building an economy that works for everyone in Alabama and across our country.

Please call or email your U.S. senators now and tell them not to slash SNAP and health care to give wealthy people even more tax cuts. Time is of the essence, so please reach out today.