1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am your constituent and I want you to know the effects of the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will have on all of us. According to the Commonwealth Fund over 1 million jobs nation wide will be lost NEXT YEAR. Almost a half a million of that loss will be in the healthcare industry and 143,000 in the food industry. The rest are collateral damage. Moreover, states will lose $18 billion in revenues due to the lost income tax and the business contraction this will create. If that weren’t enough I want you to remember that 42.1 million of us need nutrition assistance to eat - that budget is cut by over 20%. 79 million of us can only get to a doctor because of Medicaid and that’s been cut by almost 12%. I want you to decry the damage this will do to your constituents and then take action to reverse the damage done to us. How about a living minimum wage instead of the minimum poverty wage of $7.25/hour? Then maybe we could afford food. We sent you there to help us not to let the government kick us when we are down. P.S. Here is a link to the Commonwealth Fund analysis I mentioned, https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/mar/how-cuts-medicaid-snap-could-trigger-job-loss-state-revenue https://dl-rapidbot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1/a1ed/cec8/a1edcec8-3cae-4703-87b7-0e0caee8f0c3.php