1. United States
2. S.C.
3. Letter

An effort to cut SSI for families who also rely on SNAP was initiated by top White House and Department of Government Efficiency officials last year, multiple Social Security officials said. It marks a second attempt by the Trump administration to quietly but dramatically downsize disability benefit programs overseen by the Social Security Administration, despite those programs’ strict eligibility standards and minimal instances of fraud. White House Budget Director Russell Vought and Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano abandoned a different proposed regulation involving disability payments last year after ProPublica and other news outlets reported on the harm that the plan would cause to hundreds of thousands of largely blue-collar workers in red states. ) The likely SSI cut will affect not just younger adults with disabilities such as Down syndrome and severe autism who are still living at home with their low-income parents, but also older people with health or financial problems who have had to move in with their adult children on tight budgets. All told, as many as 400,000 poor and disabled people and indigent older people across the United States could have their support cut or eliminated. This is astonishing and immoral, especially in light of the fact that we are using tax dollars to pay for Trump's continuous vanity projects, an illegal war, and are willing to cut taxes on billionaires, in exchange for crucial programs like this. This seems deliberately cruel, especially coming from a party that claims to want birth rates up, and abortions gone. Republicans talk about being pro-life and wanting women at home with children, but the minute those children become an inconvenience to society or a cost to tax payers, they are thrown away. It is time for you, as my Representatives, to start standing up for the most vulnerable in our communities instead of making the burden of their care even harder for families!