{"id":376,"date":"2025-02-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/?p=376"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:47:35","slug":"de-la-cruz-fights-to-protect-medicaid-and-food-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/de-la-cruz-fights-to-protect-medicaid-and-food-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Cruz Fights to Protect Medicaid and Food Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/19\/congress\/republicans-in-hispanic-heavy-districts-push-johnson-not-to-slash-medicaid-or-snap-00205044\">reported by Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the letter, the lawmakers wrote that nearly 30 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid are Hispanic and the health care program is \u201cexpected to bear the brunt of these reductions\u201d with a proposed $880 billion in cuts under the Energy and Commerce Committee. The lawmakers noted: \u201cfor many families across the country, Medicaid is their only access to healthcare.\u201d<br><br>\u201cSlashing Medicaid would have serious consequences, particularly in rural and predominantly Hispanic communities where hospitals and nursing homes are already struggling to keep their doors open,\u201d the lawmakers added.<br><br>The group also noted that large numbers of families in their districts and territories\u00a0rely on SNAP food aid benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Politico: In the letter, the lawmakers wrote that nearly 30 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid are Hispanic and the health care program is \u201cexpected to bear the brunt of these reductions\u201d with a proposed $880 billion in cuts under the Energy and Commerce Committee. The lawmakers noted: \u201cfor many families across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}