In 2021, the expanded Child Tax Credit brought child poverty in America down to 5.2% — the lowest in recorded history. It proved something important: targeted investment could lift children out of poverty fast.
Then it expired. Child poverty climbed back to 13.4%. That’s 10 million children below the poverty line. And the federal government’s 2025 response was to cut SNAP at a level that has no precedent in the program’s history.
We proved we could fix it. Then we chose not to.
“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.” — Proverbs 3:27
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York noted in May 2026 that food insecurity has increased particularly among households with young children.
America spent $60 million just on staging for Trump’s UFC fight at the White House. Sixty million dollars. For one night of entertainment.
We have the money. We made a choice about where it goes.
Matthew 18:6 — “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
We don’t need more arguments. We need a reckoning.
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