The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board blasted vulnerable Republican Ann Wagner on Thursday for casting the deciding vote “in cowardly, backstabbing fashion” to kick thousands of Missourians off their health care and food assistance to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
The editorial comes in the wake of new analysis that shows that 17,153 of Wagner’s constituents would lose health coverage under her and House Republicans’ plan. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 households in Wagner’s district are at risk of not being able to put food on the table if Wagner’s policies become law.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Editorial: Mo.’s House Republicans betrayed their constituents. Its senators must not.
- Does [Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” gut Medicaid in order to coddle the rich with tax cuts? Does it throw crumbs to regular Americans — a temporary child tax credit boost, for instance — while giving permanent goodies to the 1%? … Yes yes.
- The bill that passed the House last week and will soon face Senate debate will risk federal food benefits for some 650,000 Missourians, including more than a quarter-million children.
- That vote… was nothing less than the heartless betrayal of the most vulnerable of [her] own constituents. [She] abandoned them in [her] eagerness to reward the rich at the expense of everyone else, or [her] mute terror of Trump, or some combination of both.
- Food programs including SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) would see more than $280 billion in cuts over the next decade… In Missouri, those cuts would translate into a loss of roughly $400 million in federal funding.
- For the roughly 1-in-10 impoverished Missourians who rely on those programs to eat, it would worsen what has already been a crisis in the state’s SNAP program.
- Trump’s putatively “beautiful” bill would, among other things, pawn off the majority of SNAP’s administrative responsibilities to the states. Anyone care to wager how well that will go over in a Missouri system that can’t even properly administer its current, smaller portion of the program?
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