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Gwen Moore: “We just voted on a resolution... to cut at least $1.5…”

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

Congresswoman's Town Hall on SNAP, Medicaid, and Community Funding Challenges

Published March 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:43

Do you think for one minute that we don't think that there will be SNAP cuts? And We just voted on a resolution... to cut at least $1.5 billion out of the budget in their farm bill. the budget in their farm bill. Now, what they will say is that we're not actually making cuts. I've heard some of their justifications already. (03:43–04:05)

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Asserts that a resolution was passed to cut at least $1.5 billion from the farm bill budget.

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“Republicans... are going to cut $330 billion out of agriculture.”
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“We got 700,000 Wisconsinites who depend on [SNAP].”
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“It's not just SNAP. It is the 23 million children who attend high poverty schools.”
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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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“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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“Trump tore down the refugee resettlement program during his first term, driving resettlements to historic lows.”
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“The economic loss of $5 trillion over a decade [could result from] mass deportation.”
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“America is aligned politically with Russia as opposed to our European colleagues.”
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“Those [NPS grants] have already, that money has already been appropriated.”
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“SNAP is definitely on the menu.”
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“There was a community eligibility provision... that they want to cut out.”
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“Medicaid pays for services like rides to the dialysis center.”
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“The biggest expenditure of Medicaid is on nursing homes.”
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“One agency here provides 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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“If they're going to take $880 billion out of the energy and commerce footprint, $880 billion just by itself is already more than the federal…”
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“We're already having problems with nursing home staffing.”
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“Other ways is requiring work requirements, which people already work.”
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“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, our hospitals, St. Joseph's Mount Sinai in this area…”
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“They're talking about destroying the Department of Education...it's everything from Head Start funds to pay all grants to enforcing civil…”
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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. We have seen them trying to privatize the veterans hospital for a really long time.”
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“The defense budget that they want to increase is different from the veterans budget.”
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“People who are still frozen have been food service workers, housekeeping aides, environmental health workers...at the Veterans Hospital.”
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“The president has just declared that English is our official language.”
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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, 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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“First 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 they're going to want to allow community projects, but I do 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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“Wisconsin once upon a time had the greatest disparity in people who could in out of home placements.”
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“President Trump's promise not to have an impact on the disabilities 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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“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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“This operationalizes the non-citizen registration requirement embodied in 8 USC 1302.”
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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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“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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