The Trump administration tried to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding for essential programs supporting women, children, and families. This unprecedented move specifically targeted health care access, refugee support, diversity initiatives, and transgender individuals — immediately sending nonprofits and social service providers into chaos and harming the most vulnerable in our communities.

The consequences are devastating. Infants will go without clean water. Families seeking a better future for their children will face impossible barriers. Low-income children, already marginalized by systemic inequities, will fall even further behind. Transgender children will experience erasure by their own government. Women seeking time-sensitive abortion care in an increasingly hostile environment will have even fewer options. Programs that provide food, housing, health care, and early education have been thrown into disarray, leaving people unsure of where their next meal will come from or whether they’ll have a roof over their heads tomorrow.

Judaism commands us to care for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan. To turn our backs on those in need is to betray not only Jewish values but the core principles that should define us as a just and compassionate nation.

Contact your lawmakers today! Let them know that critical federal funding must be restored without delay.

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