Americans brace for welfare cuts in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Elizabeth Petrler moves from one supermarket to another in her hometown in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to ensure that she gets the best price on each element in her grocery list.

Along with 42 million Americans, she is pushing grocery with federal food. This money does not cover the entire bill for her three family.

“Our food does not last a month,” she says. “I will go to all these different places only to make sure we have enough food to continue throughout the month.”

But this money may be exhausted soon, as Congress is preparing to vote for what US President Donald Trump formulated “his beautiful bill.”

The Food Support Program is used by the MS Butler – which is called the additional nutrition assistance program, known as Snap – one of the many elements in the cutting block, where Congress tries to reconcile the conflicting demands of the president apparently on both low taxes and budget balance.

The Senate is scheduled to vote its copy of the bill by the end of the week. If it passes, it will be voted on by the House of Representatives, and at this stage it will be sent to Trump to sign. The Republican -controlled Congress rooms, to pass the draft law by July 4.

Snap provides low -income families, including older Americans and families who have handicapped children and people, and money every month to buy groceries. In West Virginia, one of the states with the highest poverty rates, 16 % of the population depends on interest.

The state is also a reliable Republican stronghold and voted with a overwhelming majority of Trump in November, when he faced a promise to reduce the cost of living for Americans, including the price of the grocery.

“When I won, I will reduce prices immediately, starting from the first day.”

Months after the president pledged to this pledge, the grocery prices that were usually purchased, such as orange juice, eggs, and bacon, are higher than it was at the same time last year.

It is a fact that Mrs. Bater did not go through without anyone noticing: “The president has not changed the prices of foodstuffs yet and people promised that he would do so.”

Trump has argued, without providing an explanation of how, that spending discounts in the budget bill of 1000 pages will help reduce food prices: “The reduction will give everyone more food, because the prices are coming, grocery stores decrease,” Trump said when asked about the discounts specifically.

“The big and beautiful bill will eventually strengthen the surprise by cost -sharing measures and requirements for proper work,” a BBC official told the BBC.

Republicans have long been divided on how to finance social care programs such as Snap and Medicaid. While many believe that the government should give priority to budget budget, others, especially in poor areas, support programs that directly help their voters.

The draft law also suggests that Republicans in the Senate propose $ 211 billion (154 billion pounds) in discounts, with countries partially responsible for forming teams.

In theory, passing the draft law should be an easy political elevator, because Republicans control the rooms of Congress and the White House.

But since the bill includes discounts on programs such as Snap and Medicaid, which are popular with ordinary Americans, the sale of the bill to all factions within the Republican Party was not easy.

Reports have leaked about special frustration and opposition about potential discounts to Medicaid and Snap in recent weeks, indicating the internal wrestling that occurs within the party.

Senator in Western Virginia, Jim El -Adl in Politico, said in June that he warned his Republican colleagues that reducing the kidnapper might cost the party to the majority of Congress when voters go to the ballot boxes again in 2026.

Al -Adl said: “If we do not watch, people will be harmed, people will be disturbed. It will be the number 1 in night news everywhere.” “Then, we can wake up well to a situation in this country where the majority becomes the minority quickly.”

A recent poll conducted by the Associated Press/Norsh Public Affairs Research I found that 45 % of Americans believe that food aid programs such as Snap suffer from lack of financing, while only 30 % believe that financing levels are sufficient. About a quarter of the respondents found that the programs were exaggerated.

This is the first time that the party has struggled with the cuts to Snap.

Under the Biden Administration, Congress allowed extensive benefits to be implemented during Covid To get rid of gradualDespite both the Republicans and Democrats who warn the Americans against hunger.

“One thing about him [SNAP] Professor Rove told the BBC:

But this time you feel different.

She said: “One of the things that distinguishes this period from previous efforts to reduce social welfare programs is the Republican Republicans’ willingness to vote for the things that many of them seem out of the registry have a lot of concerns.” “Before that, there were always moderate republics, especially in the Senate, but in both chambers who have held concessions.”

It attributes this presentation to two things: the fear of getting the wrong side of Trump and the lack of fear of a general violent reaction to the actors who hold seats in Congress that can easily re -elect them.

The BBC, a member of Congress, Riley Moore, who represents Martinsburg, West Virginia, contacted the effects of cuts on his components, but he did not respond.

Moore’s voice in favor of the first house law, which included discounts in Snap.

Since then, Senator in the state of Missouri Josh Holie, who was one of the most vocal critics of the cut, has eased: Hawly told the news perpetrator that he “always supported” most of the medical aid discounts and will be “well” with most of what is on the bill.

The father of two Jordan, who asked not to use his last name, has spent the past three years alive on Snap benefits.

He and his wife get about 700 dollars a month to feed their four -person family, but they are still struggling.

The 26 -year -old says that his wife struggled to get a job and take care of their two children at the same time, so if the changes he suffered affect his family, he is ready to work and get a second job.

“I will make sure that I can do everything I can to feed my family,” he says.

He and other Western Virginia follow what is happening to the draft law in Congress.

Cameron Witzal, 25, grew up in a Snap family. But when he and his wife tried to apply for Snap, he learned that getting $ 15 per hour was too much to qualify.

“It is not great that I need to double my salary so that I can withstand grocery costs,” said Mr. Whetzel, adding, “We did not buy any eggs in only four months because it is expensive.”

He said he was frustrated because Washington officials do not understand the effects of the discounts they support in Congress.

“The conduct of federal discounts is then placed on the state, which is already struggling with it, it seems like kicking the horse while it is low,” says Mr. Witzal. “Whether it believes in the small government or the large government, the government must provide a person, in one way or another.”

With additional reports from Bernd Debusmann Jr