Catholics join people of faith and goodwill across the U.S. in affirming that healthy, nutritious food is a right for all, not a luxury for a few. Yet, Congressional Republicans made devasting cuts and other harmful changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the 2025 budget law, H.R. 1. As a result, more than 3 million people are no longer able to use SNAP to help feed themselves and their families. That means missed meals, empty cupboards, and impossible choices between food, rent, and medicine.  

The Farm Bill presents a timely and critical opportunity for Congress to restore and strengthen SNAP. But the current House Farm Bill—the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 (H.R.7567)—misses that opportunity as written. The House must reject the current flawed House Farm Bill that does not reverse any of the crushing SNAP cuts and program changes. Instead, Congress must take immediate action to restore critical SNAP funding.

Will you join us today in writing to our Representatives, asking them to vote NO on the flawed House Farm Bill (H.R.7567), and instead restore critical SNAP funding?  

NETWORK has provided a letter that you can edit to make your own. Add a personal story about an experience in your family or community. You can also choose to include one or two points from NETWORK:

• Since the passage of H.R. 1, SNAP participation has declined by approximately 3 million people. This does not mean fewer Americans need help affording food. It is the predictable outcome of a set of deliberate policy choices by the Trump administration and a majority of Republicans in Congress to systematically reduce access to the program, increase administrative burden, and shift costs onto states, localities, and families themselves. People are going hungry.  
• Access to healthy, nutritious food is essential for life and good health. Kicking people off SNAP is not an indicator of success; it’s an indicator of the moral failure of the wealthiest country on earth – letting its citizens go hungry.
• Who is hurt by cuts to SNAP? Independent analysis by the  Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms that the cuts to SNAP will inflict widespread harm on millions of Americans, particularly children, older adults, parents, veterans, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and working families.

Join us today in writing to your Representative to say NO on H.R.7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, and instead work to reverse the devastating cuts to SNAP that were included in the budget reconciliation law, H.R. 1.