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July 29, 2025 by WVCBP
West Virginia Nonprofits Speak Out About Federal Funding Cuts under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act

WOWK - Nonprofit leaders in West Virginia are speaking out about potentially harmful impacts to communities after changes to federal funding are put in motion from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act. Read the full article. According to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy’s data in 2025, federal dollars make up nearly…

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July 26, 2025 by WVCBP
Data Center Advancement Sparking Environmental, Economic Concerns Throughout WV

Charleston Gazette-Mail - Fifteen-year Tucker County resident Sheena Williams told the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection her child has asthma. Read the full article. Williams said she feared an expected data center facility for which the DEP has signaled it will approve an air quality permit despite facility plans to potentially emit hundreds of…

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July 17, 2025 by Rhonda Rogombe, Seth DiStefano, Kelly Allen
Federal Reconciliation Law Will Have Sweeping Impacts on Health Care and Food Security

The enactment of H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill, supported by all four members of West Virginia’s Congressional Delegation, cements the largest cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food assistance in our nation’s history. While the legislation was federal, the effects will be hyper-local, impacting families, food pantries, and health care clinics, as…

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July 14, 2025 by Kelly Allen
Tackling Bad Behavior in Classrooms on Inside West Virginia Politics

WOWK - On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, our guests join Rick Johnson to discuss an ACLU lawsuit, Texas flooding, the Public Employees Insurance Agency and bad behavior in classrooms. Read the full article. In Segment 1, we talk to ACLU WV Director of Communications Billy Wolfe about the lawsuit against the…

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July 7, 2025 by Kelly Allen
Moore Says Future Bills Will Cut into Rate of Debt Growth

West Virginia MetroNews - West Virginia Second District Congressman Riley Moore says there will be additional reconciliation bills that will build off of the One Big Beautiful Bill that was signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4. Read the full article. Moore, who supported the bill from the start, said the new…

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July 2, 2025 by Kelly Allen
Urgency of Addressing PEIA Solvency Exemplifies State Tax Cuts Raising Expenses for Many WV Households

West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) provides health coverage to state and local government employees as well as public school educators and staff, with total employee enrollment of about 75,000 active members and over 200,000 enrollees once counting dependent family members and retirees. With the start of the new PEIA plan year this week, those…

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July 1, 2025 by WVCBP
WVCBP’s Statement on Senators Capito and Justice’s Votes for Largest Medicaid and SNAP Cuts in History

For Immediate Release: July 1, 2025 Contact: Renee Alves, (559)-916-5939 Charleston, WV— Today, the U.S. Senate passed a sweeping reconciliation package that contains historically large cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, two programs that disproportionately benefit the Mountain State. This legislation generates deep harm for the most vulnerable Americans to fund tax cuts for our nation’s wealthiest. The…

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June 27, 2025 by Sean O'Leary
Two Local Hospitals Could Close Under ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, Study Says

WVVA - A recent study lists two local hospitals as being in danger of closure if a hotly debated federal spending bill passes. Read the full article. In May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a reconciliation package also known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Researchers say if passed, this bill would cut funding for…

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