West Virginia Watch – A Republican plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from food assistance and health care programs for low income Americans to make way for tax cuts would have “devastating” results in West Virginia, advocates and providers say.
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The U.S. House of Representatives early Thursday passed a budget bill that analysts say would cut Medicaid by at least $716 billion — the largest in the program’s history — and cause roughly 15 million people to lose their health care coverage over the next few years.
The bill, which has yet to be approved by the U.S. Senate, would also cut the Supplemental Food Nutrition Program by $300 billion through 2034 and push a portion of the cost of the program to the states to backfill.
