Governor Patrick Morrisey announced last week that the federal government’s state had sent an application for Snap waiver to the federal government in order to remove Soda from a suitable object as part of the program. (West Virginia Office by Governor Patrick Morrisey Video Screenshot)
To be candid, the leaders of West Virginia have no idea who West Virginians are or cannot remember where they came from.
I think to be rich to come from a family of politicians or come from New Jersey, could be the reason for this.
West Virginia is one of the 10 poorest states in the nation. We rely heavily on federal financing for our state budget. But instead of working on to raise people from poverty, our state government and our congress delegation follow the leadership of President Donald Trump and worsen.
Governor Patrick Morrisey last week announced That he officially asked the federal government to prevent the state’s nutritional aid program from the payment of soda.
“For a long time I talked about Snap – the N should stand for nutrition,” said Morrisey in his video announcement. Well, it stands for nutrition – the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Indiana and Nebraska was the nation’s first countries too soda and Energy drinks from public food aid advantages such as Snap. The Ministry of Agriculture of the United States approved the inquiries from the states last week, and both will come into force on January 1, 2026.
The SNAP program should “maintain this of the participants” by helping them buy food, said Eric Savaiano, Manager for Food and Nutritional Access for Nebraska Appleseed. He called the latest Snap ban “Armuts-Shaming”.
“With the consent of this waiver, part of this dignity is removed,” said Savaiano.
Armuts-Shaming is the perfect description of this law, and others who wanted to adopt West Virginia legislator in this last meeting.
Legislator tried In order to ban the recipients of SNAP to utilize their advantages to buy cushioned drinks and sweets, but this calculation never made it from the delegates’ house.
The Senate tried to say goodbye to a law that would have expanded Working and training requirements For Snap recipient.
“We know from many studies, including some of our own, that the provisions of the work reporting of people decreases people from access to food, but do not combine them with work,” said Rhonda Rogombé, analyst for health and security policy for the West Virginia Center for budget and guidelines.
She said that the legislative template that would have died in house financing would have put pressure on the state’s food banks, which would have been the task of closing the gaps for people who would have lost benefits for SNAP advantages due to the work requirements.
The Trump government is now End the local program to support the USDA food purchase for support This gave the states to store local farms.
The Ohio Association of Foodbanks has sent an e -mail to farmers who announced that the program will be reduced, and a communication of the USDA, which said that the Trump administration “found that this agreement no longer causes the agency’s priorities and that the termination of the award is appropriate”.
The local aid program for food purchase approved locally collected products of 900 million US dollars for food banks. It ends on June 30th.
In addition, the US representative house last week approved The “big, beautiful calculation” of the Trump government, which is actually quite ugly and is devastating for those who utilize Snap or Medicaid.
More than 500,000 West virginians rely on the Medicaid or Pediatric Health Insurance program and about 277,000 – or one of six – utilize SnAP advantages to gain access to food. Kelly Allen, Managing Director of the West Virginia Center for Household and Politics, said that the draft law was “a really bad business for West Virginians”.
The draft law that continues to adopt the US Senate and signed by President Donald Trump State governments.
Remember, Morrisey said he was expecting one 400 million US dollars deficit From the next financial year (something that other state legislators have contested) and in 2022 more than 45% of the total income of the state came from federal grants, as from an analysis of analysis of analysis of Pew Charitible Trusts.
The “large, beautiful bill” will also make deep cuts for Medicaid and reduce the program for over 10 years by 625 billion US dollars.
And what does West Virginia have to say about the adoption of this bill in Washington, DC?
“This legislation will undoubtedly improve the life of an average American, and I am proud to support them at home and bring it to President Trump’s desk,” said Rep. Carol Miller. “I ask my colleagues to do the same.”
Miller is a millionaire. Her husband has five car dealers and has a participation in a real estate company.
Rich West Virginians do not live the same life as the rest of us. If we do not pay our bills, we do not win a seat in the Senate like Senator Jim Justice. Instead, we do not eat, let our supply companies switch off without walking medicine or losing our houses.
Perhaps it is not in our best interest to continue to choose politicians who do not know how the average West virginian lives.
