Here is a script that you can use to help guide your call.

Intro
I’m a constituent and am calling to request that [Senator/Representative_____] oppose the deep cuts to SNAP and Medicaid that are being considering as part of the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

Content [share any or all of the messages below that resonate most with you]

• SNAP is the nation’s largest and most effective federal hunger program, providing timely, targeted and short-term food benefits for people facing food insecurity.
• These cuts will take away food and healthcare from seniors, children, people with disabilities, veterans and working families at a time when food insecurity in America is at its highest rate in over a decade.
• SNAP touches people in every county in America, helping stabilize families struggling to make ends meet and supporting local grocery stores and farmers.
• Approximately 2/3 of people on SNAP cannot work because they are children, seniors, the disabled, or a caregiver for a child or person with a disability. Cuts to SNAP will disproportionately harm our most vulnerable.
• SNAP is incredibly efficient, providing grocery benefits so families can go to their local grocery store to purchase the food that their families need.
• SNAP benefits are already modest: an average of just $6 a day per person. But that investment helps children learn, seniors live independently and workers stay healthy.
• SNAP also drives local economies. In rural communities, in particular, every SNAP dollar generates nearly $1.80 in economic activity.
• The bill requires states to pay for a portion of SNAP food benefit costs, abandoning the 50-year, bi-partisan commitment to ensure that poor children get the help they need, no matter what state they live in. My state does not have the resources to absorb these costs and would be forced to reduce SNAP benefits, restrict participation, or both, further intensifying food insecurity in my state.
• Reducing essential food and healthcare supports increases demand on food banks and food pantries when they are already operating at full capacity and cannot meet any additional need.
• The charitable sector simply cannot fill the gap created by cuts this deep. For every one meal that a food bank provides, SNAP provides 9.

Conclusion
Please vote “no” on SNAP and Medicaid cuts. Cutting these life-saving programs that help people meet these basic needs will lead to a hungrier, sicker America.