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Gwen Moore: “It is the 23 million children who attend high poverty…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

Rep. Gwen Moore Community-Based Organization Town Hall.

Published February 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:15

So that's. I'll move on to the next question. Maria. Okay, the next question is about the budget resolution. Let me just make one more point. It's not just snap. It is the 23 million children who attend high poverty schools. They want to mess with food in that way, too. Through the ACT Committee, not just snap. (06:15–06:22)

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“You're going to cut $330 billion out of agriculture.”
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“We just voted on a resolution...to cut at least $1.5 billion out of the budget in their farm bill.”
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“There are plenty of people, 53, 54 years old, who have enough medical and health problems.”
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“We got 700,000 Wisconsinites who depend on this program [SNAP].”
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“SNAP is definitely on the menu.”
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“There was a community eligibility provision...to see if they were being eligible for free school lunch.”
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“They want to take $880 billion out of Medicaid.”
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“40% of births in this country are on Medicaid.”
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“Says Wisconsin's Medicaid match is 60% federal and 40% state.”
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“Medicaid pays for services like rides to the dialysis center.”
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“Medicaid pays for rides to medical appointments.”
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“The biggest expenditure of Medicaid [is] on nursing homes.”
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“One agency here... provide[s] like 26,000 meals a day, and Medicaid sort of helps them with that.”
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“Donald Trump has lied and said he was not going to touch Medicaid.”
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“$880 billion just by itself is already more than the federal share of Medicaid.”
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“We're already having problems with nursing home staffing.”
Rep. Gwen Moore Community-Based Organization Town Hall. | Uploaded February 28, 2025 | 12:26-12:31
“They want to cut the abilities of states to get provider taxes... from Medicaid providers.”
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“Allowing hospitals their nonprofit status, taking it away...those rural hospitals...would be decimated by that kind of trick.”
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“They do claim that they will not be backing away from obligations to disabled children. But guess what? They never have stepped up to meet…”
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“Veterans benefits are also on the chopping block.”
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“We have seen them trying to privatize the veterans hospital for a really long time.”
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“Over 640,000 veterans work for the federal government as of March 2024.”
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“There are three women a day that are killed in domestic violence situations.”
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“We've already seen programs in Wisconsin being, scholarship programs that target helping minority students being challenged.”
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“On February 25, which seems like a long time ago, a judge put a stay on the DEI executive order.”
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“Right now, I'm sure the body count is going up every day with the loss of funding for pepfar for the AIDS initiative.”
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“They are terrified of these Medicaid cuts.”
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“One of the first things going to be cut is Medicaid's home health services.”
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“The ability for the elders to stay at home longer is probably one of the first things on the chopping block.”
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“The Pell Grants are something that, that, you know, that go further than just need based of the lowest, lowest income.”
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“There are a lot of so called middle class kids who would be eligible for Pell Grants.”
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“I think that once they just let all the animals out of the cage that they're not going to want to not have something to bring home to their…”
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“I think that they will sort through hours to make sure it's not dei.”
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“I think that they would certainly put restrictions on anything that involved dei.”
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“States that the federal government was paying 90% for Medicaid expansion in states that took the expansion.”
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“Claims Wisconsin once had the greatest disparity in out-of-home placements versus home care in the country.”
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“Mentions President Trump's promise not to impact disability communities with his decision making.”
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“They do not have a right to impound funds that have already been appropriated.”
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“Trump tore down the refugee resettlement program during his first term, driving resettlements to historic lows.”
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“Now he shuttered the [refugee resettlement] program altogether.”
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“The repeal of the sensitive locations policy, you know, holding migrants at Guantanamo.”
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“The new announcement that will require many non-citizens to register with the federal government.”
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“Their House budget resolution and the Senate resolution as well includes billions of more dollars to target families and asylum seekers.”
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“Giving the Trump administration at least $100,000, 100,000 more beds that they're seeking.”
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“The economic loss of $5 trillion over a decade [could result from] mass deportation.”
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“There will be letters sent around among all of our colleagues with regard to Head Start programs.”
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“Head Start has traditionally been a bipartisan program.”
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