• Medicaid - The bill contains harmful changes to Medicaid funding and eligibility, including the shifting of costs for administering Medicaid to the states, creating costly and time-consuming work activity reporting requirements, and increasing the frequency of eligibility checks for recipients. Multiple analyses estimate more than 230,000 Hoosiers who would lose their health insurance by 2034 as a result of these changes - that's the same number of people as the combined populations of Evansville, Elkhart, and Kokomo!
• SNAP - As the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program, SNAP provides nutrition support to more than 40 million low-income people—over 12% of the U.S. population. The budget bill has a cost sharing rule that would force states to cover a larger share of the administrative expense of SNAP, as well as provisions that increase work reporting requirements. As a result of these changes, an estimated 150,000 Hoosiers would lose some or all of their SNAP benefits, making it even harder to put food on the table for their families.
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) - The CFPB educates consumers and goes after predatory financial products and practices, returning millions of dollars in excessive fees and interest to people's bank accounts. The budget decreases the maximum amount that the CFPB can request from the Federal Reserve to cover operating expenses from 12% to 5% and caps its budget at a flat $249 million in 2025, with only inflation adjustments moving forward. By imposing an almost 70% reduction from their 2024 budget of $755 million, the CFPB will be left under resourced and unable to effectively protect Indiana consumers.
• Child Tax Credit - Over 4.5 million citizen and legal permanent resident children nationwide with SSNs would become ineligible for the CTC under a policy change that would prohibit some parents from claiming the credit for their children on their taxes. That means more than 52,000 Hoosier children with SSNs are estimated to lose out on the CTC, a research-backed tool that improves both short- and long-term outcomes for children and their families.
• Energy Assistance and CSBG: Energy assistance helps families keep the power on during extreme weather, preserving food, medicine and access to the tools they need to thrive. CSBG is the flexible funding that empowers local non-profits to respond to community needs. Both were suggested for elimination in the President's budget.

We all benefit when the people around us have the resources they need to thrive. These critical community programs are lifelines for children, seniors, working families, and folks with disabilities living throughout Indiana. Federal funding cuts may force programs to shut their doors to our neighbors in need, leaving them with nowhere to turn as costs rise higher and supports disappear. But there's still time to make your voice heard.