NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Patient advocacy groups and anti-hunger organizations urged Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty to vote against a provision in President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that could reduce federal spending on Medicaid and SNAP benefits by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

Organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and the Tennessee Caregiver Coalition, stood in front of Sen. Blackburn and Sen. Hagerty's Nashville offices Tuesday to push back against the proposed cuts.

“These programs exist for a reason, and it’s for the people who need it the most, so whenever we look at cutting it, I think it’s informative to look at who we would be taking from, what we would be cutting, what that

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