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Proposed cuts to federal food assistance could cost Michigan nearly $900 million annually.

The proposed changes shift more financial burden onto states, potentially impacting other state programs.

Republicans argue that the cuts will only affect those who shouldn't be receiving benefits.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office released a report indicating Republican-led efforts in Congress to cut federal spending on food assistance by shifting some of the burden onto the states could cost Michigan taxpayers nearly $900 million a year or require reductions in that program or others to make up for that amount.

Whitmer, who has continued to criticize congressional efforts in the same bill to reduce federal spending on Medicaid , which provides health care to low-income and d

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