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How Trump's tax cut and spending megabill would impact SNAP recipients
Chefs, food equality advocates and nonprofit leaders rally against Trump's megabill that would slash SNAP funding for the ...
‘Potentially catastrophic’: While Congress cuts safety net, Mass. lawmakers pass budget short on cash for SNAP caseworkers
The state budget slashed more than $40 million in funding for the Department of Transitional Assistance, which administers ...
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Mannion expects fallout of massive budget bill to continue when Congress returns this week
Central New York Rep. John Mannion (D-Geddes) is back in Washington this week, as Congress returns from its July 4 break, and ...
The Statehouse News Bureau7d
Federal cuts to SNAP mean Ohio will have to bear some benefit costs for the first time
Passed and signed into law last Thursday and Friday, the Republican-majority Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes major ...
Adirondack Daily Enterprise4d
Congress voted to gut the safety net to fund tax cuts for the rich. Now what?
New York’s top leaders will need to make tough decisions in the coming months as they confront billions in lost federal funding for the state’s largest and oldest safety net programs. Last week, ...
‘No State’ Can Afford To Mitigate GOP Budget Cuts, and ‘That’s the Point’
On Tuesday, Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed her state’s budget bill. At a press conference that day, Hobbs said if ...
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Reconciliation bill boosts military pay, housing, cuts benefits for troops, veterans
The bill invests in military quality-of-life improvements while slashing social safety net programs that many military ...