Charleston Gazette-Mail – In West Virginia, we believe in showing up for one another — whether it’s helping a neighbor change a tire, holding a food drive or pitching in to help clean and rebuild after a flood. It’s who we are. But right now in Congress, some of our elected officials are turning their backs on those very values.
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Earlier this month the U.S. House passed a sweeping federal budget package that would rip health care away from tens of thousands of West Virginians and increase grocery costs for many of our state’s families. And what is a budget if not the same mutual aid West Virginians offer one another every day- just on a larger scale?
Both of West Virginia’s representatives, Republicans Carol Miller and Riley Moore, voted in favor of this plan — one that would result in an estimated 65,000 West Virginians losing their health care coverage and tens of thousands more facing new barriers to accessing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps).
