San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer and Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe Tuesday will renew a proposal to tap into the county's reserves to offset cuts coming from Washington, D.C.
The supervisors say the proposal to be heard at their 9 a.m. meeting would protect the county's citizens from the Trump administration slashing of health care and food assistance programs by using ample reserves. Officials have said that Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed Congress earlier this year, is projected to cost the county more than $300 million each year in additional costs or lost revenue.
According to Lawson-Remer and Montgomery Steppe, nearly 400,000 San Diegans risk losing health care, and 100,000 could lose food assistance.
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