Mountain State Spotlight – As Congress moves toward cutting crucial funding that helps West Virginians — many of them elderly or disabled or children — get the food they need, state elected officials so far have no plan to reduce the harm.
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Under a plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week, funding for SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, and Medicaid would be cut to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately go to the wealthy.
On the day the bill passed the House, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, who sits on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, which oversees SNAP legislation made a statement.
