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RELEASE: Budget Resolution Would Permanently Worsen Poverty for California Children and Families

California Members of Congress Urged to Vote No, Support Evidence-Based Solutions to End Child Poverty

 
Pasadena, CA — April 9, 2025 — News reports indicate that the House intends to vote on the budget resolution today, a budget resolution which includes instructions to make trillions in cuts to healthcare, nutrition assistance, school meals, education and other vital services that children and families rely on to thrive. 

While some are saying that this is a procedural step, we must be clear: a vote in favor is a vote to advance and give permission to a process that aims to gut our anti-poverty programs, and for what? In order to provide tax breaks to billionaires and wealthy corporations. 

Californian families have been crystal clear: They need more help, not less, to afford groceries, healthcare, housing, and other basic needs. In slashing Medicaid, SNAP, school meals, and other vital programs, this budget resolution is a tax on working families and will worsen the cost of living crisis. 

Congress must not make Californians hungrier, sicker, and block pathways to prosperity. Instead, Congress should follow the evidence and enact solutions to end child poverty for good.

Budgets are statements of values. We urge every California member of Congress to oppose this resolution that would do so much harm to the future of our children, families, and our state. 

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