加州 SNAP 利益相关者谴责众议院 HR 1 投票，该投票对联邦食品援助进行了历史性削减

Joint Statement Highlights Devastating Impacts to Hunger, Grocers, Local Governments, and California’s Food Economy

California leaders representing all sectors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — including grocers, eligibility and retail labor forces, county administrators, and anti-hunger leaders — are united in our continued opposition to H.R.1, the budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. We are extremely disappointed that several California Members voted for the largest cut to food assistance in history. 

The bill makes a historic 30% cut to SNAP, and is a direct attack on California’s most vulnerable residents. It would dismantle SNAP, known as CalFresh in California, our most effective anti-hunger program that helps 5.5 million low-income Californians afford groceries. 

For California, the stakes are massive not just to food security, but to the very foundation of our food economy. The state’s share of the roughly $300 billion cut – a 30% cut – to federal SNAP assistance is approximately $36 billion. 

This would strike a devastating blow to our communities and local economies, causing the loss of some 488,000 jobs statewide (using USDA ERS’ factor of 13,560 jobs per $1 billion in SNAP), from grocery store workers to truck drivers to farmers and farmworkers. Grocery stores will close, creating food deserts that harm rural economies, and farmers will suffer a $30 billion loss nationwide. 

These cuts will spike food insecurity, permanently overload local food banks which are already stretched, ultimately pushing working families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities deeper into poverty.  Already, 1 in 4 nationally are taking on grocery debt just to afford food. 

State and county governments will be left to manage the fallout—with fewer federal resources to do so. Counties will face increased pressure on their human services departments, while the state will see greater demand for emergency food, public health, and housing programs. This is an unfunded mandate that shifts the burden to local county governments already stretched thin.

The bill also imposes cuts of even greater magnitude to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care access for millions. Taken together, these proposals would widen inequality, undercut the stability of our communities, devastate states and county governments, and undermine our state’s ability to meet basic needs.

We urge Members of Congress who voted for this legislation to meet with SNAP stakeholders, including participants, to understand how truly devastating this bill is. The Senate must reject this harmful legislation, and listen to the clear call from families that they need more help, not less, to afford food, healthcare, and other basic needs. 

Congress must prioritize the health and well-being of everyday Californians — not cut vital programs for the millions of Californians struggling to get by.

合作伙伴签名/引述： 

“毫无疑问，这项立法逆转了数十年来为消除贫困导致的饥饿所做的努力，并将我们的孩子置于难以想象的粮食不安全未来，” 加州终结儿童贫困组织总裁兼首席执行官希米卡·加斯金斯. “If that weren’t enough, the bill undermines pathways out of poverty by devastating our food economy, leading to store closures, food deserts, and hurting the very jobs we need to expand access to the California Dream. It is astonishing that California Members of Congress voted for this legislation. Should the Senate return a bill to the House, we implore them to do the right thing for the children of their communities.”

“民选官员经常询问如何才能在社区内增加杂货店。投票通过大幅削减食品券计划（SNAP）的法案，将会适得其反。拟议的削减措施将对目前能够定期前往商店，用食品券购买新鲜营养食品的低收入家庭的福祉产生寒蝉效应，” 莱蒂西亚·加西亚，加州杂货商协会州政府关系主任. “在许多服务不足的社区，食品券（SNAP）领取者构成了商店顾客群的大多数。如果没有这项支持，许多这样的商店将被迫关门。杂货店是经济支柱，也是人们健康和福祉的重要来源。我们敦促国会否决这些削减计划，以保护食品券项目并支持我们当地的社区。”

“California food banks are already stretched thin, serving more than 6 million people each month. There is no way that food banks can make up for the amount of food households would lose as a result of these cuts to SNAP,” said 加州食品银行协会首席执行官斯塔西亚·莱文菲尔德. “食品银行每提供一餐，SNAP（补充营养援助计划）就能提供九餐。我们敦促国会否决这些削减措施，保护SNAP；这是一个行之有效的项目，它不仅能消除饥饿，还能保护我们社区的就业。” 

“It has been shocking to see California Members of Congress vote against the interests of the very people they were elected to represent. At a time when people are working harder than ever just to stay afloat, our leaders should be expanding support, not slashing it to give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy,” said 基利·奥布莱恩，西部法律与贫困中心政策倡导者. “This bill threatens to take food off tables, puts 400,000 California jobs at risk, and rips $54 billion out of our local economies to funnel even more wealth to insatiable billionaires. These are not just numbers on a page, they represent lost jobs, empty refrigerators, hungry children, and shattered futures. California’s economy cannot thrive while its families suffer. We are calling on our representatives to stand on the side of dignity, compassion, and justice, not greed and cruelty. Our communities are watching.”

“如果这些削减食品券计划的措施得以实施，将会造成毁灭性打击，并对我们的社会保障体系产生连锁反应，”他说。 加州县福利主任协会执行主任卡洛斯·马尔克斯三世. “获得新鲜营养的食物是一项人权；为了给富人提供更多税收减免而让儿童和家庭挨饿是丧尽天良的。此外，这项削减将严重削弱各县的服务基础设施，损害我们社区弱势儿童、家庭和老年人及时获得食品援助、住房、医疗保健和儿童福利服务的机会。任何一位加州国会议员都无法昧着良心支持这项法案。’ 

“UFCW成员们自豪地站在SNAP计划的第一线，帮助家长和老年人购买他们家庭所需的食品杂货，”他说。 Amber Parrish, Executive Director, UFCW Western States Council. “Make no mistake, these cuts will not only worsen hunger, but by taking away critical grocery resources, they will cut the very fabric of our food economy. It’s a double gut punch: workers will lose their jobs as families cannot afford food, and then SNAP food assistance won’t be there to help them as they look for their next job.”