Experts Sound Alarm About Proposed SNAP Cuts, Moving Costs to States

Experts sound alarm about proposed SNAP cuts, moving costs to states

In a press call Tuesday afternoon, Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, called the current House Republican budget proposal “a bill that features very large tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, coupled with deep and harmful cuts in SNAP, in Medicaid, in ACA marketplace coverage.” If passed, Parrott said, it “will leave millions without the food assistance they need … and it will leave millions without health covera…

House Plan Contains Biggest Medicaid and SNAP Cuts in History to Fund Tax Cuts for the Wealthy - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

The U. S. House of Representatives is now considering a radical budget and tax plan that would take health coverage and food assistance away from more than 100,000 Kentuckians, all to offset a fraction of the cost of cutting taxes for America’s wealthiest people and corporations. If passed, it would be the largest funding cut to both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history. More than one in three Kentuckians …