Where’s Waldo Joyce? U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce is not doing town meetings, likely because of the substantial changes to Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare, and SNAP food benefits in the Big Beautiful Bill he voted for.

George Washington University found the House-passed version of the bill would reduce Ohio’s annual Medicaid funding by $3.4 billion (a 12% reduction) and reduce SNAP by $1 billion, while diminishing Ohio’s GDP by $4.3 billion, cutting nearly 38,000 jobs and slashing state tax revenues by $283 million. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities warned of “ by far the largest cut to SNAP in history .”

The nonpartisan KFF estimated that the bill as signed into law would cause 460,000 Ohioans to lose health insurance . Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy

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