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What does the budget reconciliation vote mean for your community? Learn more about how your state and Congressional district could be impacted, including how many people are at risk of losing essential services and how many more of your district’s tax dollars may be redirected towards increasing militarization at home and abroad. The Trump administration isn’t trimming fat from the federal budget, they’re cutting the heart out of communities to further enrich billionaires and war profiteers.

This report provides the number of people who could receive Medicaid, SNAP, and the Child Tax Credit instead of investing more in militarization, by state and congressional district.

Key Takeaways

The current reconciliation bill would fund record-high spending for the Pentagon and mass deportations by cutting essential spending on Medicaid and food stamps, leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to hunger and sickness. Preserving health insurance and food aid for needy Americans is as simple as refusing to spend more on war and deportations:

• New militarized spending includes $119 billion for the Pentagon and war and $43.8 billion for mass detention and deportations for FY 2026, enough to bring the nation’s first $1 trillion Pentagon and war budget, and triple annual spending on mass detention of immigrants.
• To fund new militarized spending and tax breaks for the wealthy, Congress plans cuts to Medicaid and food stamps (SNAP) that would take health insurance from 13.7 million people, including 8.6 million people insured under Medicaid, and threaten food stamps (SNAP) for 11 million people, including four million children.
• Militarized spending increases in the reconciliation proposals total $163 billion for FY 2026. That’s more than enough to fund Medicaid for the 13.7 million people at risk of losing health care, and the 11 million people at risk of losing food stamps.

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