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…
Tax and Budget
West Virginia MetroNews - West Virginia’s state revenue collections concluded the fiscal year $254.8 million ahead of estimates, according to information distributed by the state Senate Finance Committee. Read the full article. State officials had anticipated bringing in $5.264 billion during the fiscal year that just concluded. Instead, the state recorded $5.519 billion — 105%…
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…
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…
West Virginia MetroNews - Senator Shelley Moore Capito anticipates a vote on the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” will be bumped after a parliamentarian ruled against key Medicaid provisions. Read the full article. In a determination about what aspects of the megabill would be subject to reconciliation — and therefore exempt from filibuster — the parliamentarian…
Note: This guest publication was written by our partners at Families USA. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will terminate health coverage, drive up costs and cut care across the country — eliminating health coverage for nearly 16 million people and resulting in over 51,000 preventable deaths nationwide. If Congress charges ahead with either the…
WCHS - Six protestors were charged with trespassing on Wednesday after holding a sit-in in Sen. Shelley Moore Capito's Charleston office. Read the full article. The protest aimed to show their concerns about the proposed cuts to SNAP and Medicaid in the Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill. Protestor Lyn May said she knows first hand how…
WOAY - Several organizations came together today to give people information about potential cuts to programs at the federal level. Read the full article. Facing Hunger Foodbank, the American Friends Service Committee, the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition, and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy held a meeting in Oceana at the…
WHSV - As West Virginians face possible cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, they are also being hit hard in the job market. Read the full article. An event Wednesday in Wyoming County addressed growing concern in the mountain state. Roughly 200 miners in Itmann will be losing their jobs this August, causing a crisis in…
WTRF - More than 20 organizations across West Virginia are urging Senators Jim Justice and Shelley Moore Capito to oppose a federal budget package they say would harm the state’s most vulnerable residents. Read the full article. The Senate reconciliation package under consideration proposes major cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).…