The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid are lifelines for millions, providing food and health coverage that stabilize families and strengthen communities. Cuts to these critical programs will hit children, seniors, and people in rural communities particularly hard. While cuts to either program would each be harmful on their own, slashing both will compound hardship and deepen poverty for millions of people. This fact sheet explores the deeply negative impacts that broad-based cuts will have on the effectiveness of the programs, the states administering them, and the people they serve—especially seniors, children, and people in rural communities.