Charleston Gazette-Mail – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved a far-reaching budget reconciliation package that, if enacted, would sever at least tens of thousands of West Virginians’ access to health and social safety net programs.
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The Republican-majority House passed the budget reconciliation package in a mostly party-line 215-214 vote Thursday morning, approving sweeping cuts to Medicaid and food benefits for low-income people in the legislation designed to extend tax cuts first created under President Donald Trump in 2017 that benefit the wealthy. The bill now goes before the Senate.
Reps. Carol Miller and Riley Moore, both R-W.Va., voted for the measure, touting its tax cut provisions that the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model projected would drive a $3.2 trillion increase in the national deficit over 10 years.
