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Media advisory WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 7, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) will host a press conference with members of the Agriculture Committee and stakeholders about the Republican plan to cut $230 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which will take food away from seniors, children and veterans while reducing demand for the food America’s farmers grow. 

Statement “A skyrocketing cost of living. A Trump trade war that will drive costs even higher. Zero guaranteed paid family and medical leave or paid sick days. Soaring child care and health care costs. Cruel, harmful Republican efforts to cut nutrition, health care, early learning, and education funding. And punishing, persistent wage discrimination that causes unfair pay. Moms’ Equal Pay Day tomorrow, Tuesday, is a painful reminder that moms must navigate the crises of this moment without fair paychecks.

Statement “America’s moms want our streets, schools, and homes to be safe from gun violence, our opioid prevention programs to be strong, and crime victims to get the services they need – so it is distressing to learn the Trump administration is cancelling literally hundred

Statement “Our state legislature took vitally important steps this week to make our workplaces more family friendly and fair by passing a bill to expand pregnancy and postpartum workplace accommodations to all employers, regardless of their size, and another that closes a loophole in the state's Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) program that put workers who took paid leave at risk of losing their jobs. Enactment of both these bills would support moms, families, businesses and our state’s economy, and Gov. Ferguson should waste no time in signing them into law.