Norma Huffman holds a sign during a protest outside the home of U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., in Little Rock on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Adam Vogler)

About a dozen protesters gathered outside U.S. Rep. French Hill's home in Little Rock late Friday afternoon, waving signs and placing a letter on his doorstep that condemned his vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and asking him to vote against cutting housing and education funding when Congress reconvenes next month.

Members of Arkansas Community Organizations, Arkansas Renters United and The People's Protests and Marches AR waved signs at passing cars outside Hill's Cantrell Road home around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Hill's vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which became law in July, enabled cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program --usually called SNAP or food stamps -- that have already negatively affected Arkansans, said Norma Huffman, president of Arkansas Community Organizations' Southwest Little Rock chapter.

The letter placed at his door Friday admonished him for that vote and called on him to vote against cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and public education when Congress returns to Washington, D.C., in September.

"We need to increase funding for HUD," the letter reads. "Public education is the only education that most of our families can afford."

Food stamps have already become harder to use, said Huffman, who uses the program. Some people lack transportation, and when they attempt to use the program to purchase eligible foods online at stores like Walmart, prices are significantly increased, sometimes by as much as double, she said.

"Americans are going to suffer if this stuff keeps going on," Huffman said.

An attempt to reach Hill for comment Friday evening was unsuccessful.

Huffman and many of the others present at Friday's protest have taken part in a series of regular protests during the week at French Hill's office on University Avenue in Little Rock, they said.

Kate Burnett, who is a venue coordinator and project manager for The People's Protests and Marches AR and has attended numerous protests since February, said Hill is a coward and won't talk to his constituents while he votes for policies that negatively impact them.

Hill's votes consistently support policies that "put Arkansans in a bad place," said Paul Hohnbaum, who works for The People's Protests and Marches AR as a tech specialist and volunteer coordinator.

Hohnbaum isn't sure most of Hill's constituents keep up with what he's voting for, he said, and their group has been working to inform people and mobilize those opposed to policies they dislike to vote against legislators like Hill in future elections.

When Huffman and two Arkansas Community Organizations members approached Hill's door to drop off the letter, a plainclothes Little Rock police officer approached and said no one was home, but let them leave the letter wedged in Hill's door jamb.

Huffman and other members of the group plan to travel to D.C. in September to join protests organized by Popular Democracy and possibly engage in civil disobedience in the city, she said.