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. Earlier this month the U.S. House passed a sweeping federal budget package that would rip healthcare 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 West Virginia’s Congresswoman Carol Miller and Congressman 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 SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. Let’s be clear: voting for the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history is voting to take away health care and food from our most vulnerable neighbors — kids, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-wage workers. (fb)

The reconciliation package moving through Congress enacts historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to partially offset the extension & expansion of federal tax cuts. So who do the tax cuts benefit? The top 1% of households get more than the entire bottom 60%. While the richest 1% would each get an annual tax cut that would pay for a new car outright (the average new car price in 2025 is just under $50k), the average annual tax cut for the bottom 20% of households ($120) falls short of even covering one month of an average car payment. This is before accounting for the household effects of the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Once you account for those, 40% of households will be worse off, seeing their household incomes *decline*. (fb)