14 Million Children Could Lose Food Stamps and Health Benefits
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14 Million Children Could Lose Food Stamps and Health Benefits
Proposed budget would reduce SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by $290 billion. Report titled ‘Children under attack: How Congressional Assaults on Health and Food Programs are Endangering the Youngest Americans’ would be “serious and generational in scope,” according to the report titled “Children Under Attack.” The bill is set for a hearing in the House Rules Committee Wednesday morning. House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson said he expects it to receive a full House vote by the end of the week. “We’re ensuring that programs like Medicaid and SNAP are strengthened for the US citizens who need and deserve them and not being squandered away by illegal aliens and persons who are cheating the system,’ Johnson stated. ‘We shouldn’t slash life-sustaining initiatives just to provide a disproportionate tax break to the wealthy and the well-connected’ — Florida Rep. Kathy Castor. � “It is just a fundamental tragedy that we are considering these enormous levels of cuts”
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore Opposes Big Bonanza Bill for Billionaires, Devastating Cuts to Health Care and Nutritional Assistance
As the Ways and Means Committee marked up the big bonanza bill for billionaires, Congresswoman Moore released the following statement. “Republicans are relying on ‘savings’ that depend on people forgetting their mail, or to respond to paperwork to verify their eligibility for Medicaid. This is really nefarious and will cause people to lose health care they need,” she said. In powerful testimony, she mentioned her own personal struggle with hunger and how cuts to SNAP can leave the best and brightest children who may happen to be poor, deprived of the nutrients it needs. She also highlighted the missed opportunities to lift up working families: “With today’s mark up, Republicans once again missed the opportunity to actually lift up everyday Americans and our poorest children.”
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Nearly Half of US Kids—34 Million—Rely on Food, Health Programs Targeted by GOP
AFL-CIO, First Focus on Children, and UnidosUS release a report on the GOP’s megabill. Nearly 45% of the country’s kids, or 34 million, rely on Medicaid for health insurance, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food, or both. “These cuts will leave children poorer, hungrier, and sicker,” the report states. Trump is scheduled to meet with House Republicans on Capitol Hill Tuesday to promote the legislation.. The bill would cut programs like Medicaid and SNAP plus add up to trillions of dollars to the national debt over the next decade. It would build on Trump and congressional Republicans’ 2017 tax giveaways to wealthy individuals and corporations. “There is nothing in this big bill that’s beautiful for children,” said Congresswoman Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), co-chair of the Congressional Children’s Health Care Caucus. “Their new report serves as a call to action to reject the billionaire tax giveaway and reject the Republican budget plan”
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Proposed federal SNAP cuts would leave Oregon families hungry, governor and senators warn
Proposed federal SNAP cuts would leave Oregon families hungry, governor and senators warn. Republicans on Monday night unveiled a plan to cut federal SNAP spending by at least $230 billion. But states including Oregon can’t afford those shifts, Gov. Tina Kotek said. Every dollar spent on SNAP generates another $1.50-1.80 in economic activity at grocery stores, farmers’ markets and other local businesses, she said. The details of congressional Republican’s budget reconciliation proposal arrived just before the release of Oregon’S May revenue forecast, which state budget-writers will use to craft the next two-year budget.“The combination of less food assistance for seniors and kids, and then Republican cuts in Medicaid, is a prescription for a sicker America,” Sen. Ron Wyden said.
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- Original: 14 Million Children Could Lose Food Stamps and Health Benefits
- Congresswoman Gwen Moore Opposes Big Bonanza Bill for Billionaires, Devastating Cuts to Health Care and Nutritional Assistance
- Nearly Half of US Kids—34 Million—Rely on Food, Health Programs Targeted by GOP
- Proposed federal SNAP cuts would leave Oregon families hungry, governor and senators warn
Source: https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/advocates-say-14-million-children-could-lose-food-stamps-and-health-benefits-under-proposed-federal-budget/261271