Across New York State, community-based organizations like mine are bracing for disaster. But we’re not monitoring weather reports or tracking hospital intakes, not this time.

That’s because now the damage being done isn’t coming from rising water, or the spread of disease — it’s coming from H.R. 1, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” and its slashing cuts to our social safety net that are now becoming real for our neighbors.

In New York State, where 3.5 million people receive federal nutrition benefits, we estimate that 1.02 million people (29% of all recipients) are at risk of going hungry. More than 1 million could lose their health coverage. Cruelly, these groups also substantially overlap.

Neighborhood economies, which typically benefit strongly from SNAP spending, will also take a big........

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