1. United States
2. S.C.
3. Letter

"The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the deepest cuts to SNAP in its history, expanded work rules, and shifted costs to the states even as cuts to federal grant programs have forced Arizona to lay off a third of its caseworkers. Those Arizona residents include Dee McDonald, a 65-year-old cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds and skips meals to feed her three teenaged grandsons. SNAP falls under the Department of Agriculture, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins celebrates the cuts, claiming the program is rife with fraud. Like other Republicans, she cites error rates. But error rates usually reflect mistakes in classification numbers by caseworkers, not fraudulent use of services." - Heather Cox Richardson This is appalling! Republicans pushed through the so called One Big Beautiful Bill without a single vote from Democrats, and it's no wonder. This means Republicans fully own the harm this legislation causes. To live in a country as wealthy as the United States of America and have Republicans in Congress chose to strip food assistance from the poor to give tax breaks to the rich is morally reprehensible! It is time for you, my Congressional Representatives, to start working for the people of SC again, instead of working for your big dollar donors! Shame on you!